A.A. Bondy – Killers 3
We’re very much looking forward to getting our grubby mitts on A.A. Bondy’s new album Enderness – his first for eight ..
We’re very much looking forward to getting our grubby mitts on A.A. Bondy’s new album Enderness – his first for eight ..
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies The Head And The Heart – Missed Connection Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation ..
Inspired by artists like Leonard Cohen, Ane Brun, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Alela Diane, and Joni Mitchell amongst others, Vilma Flood ..
We loved Brooklyn duo Frog’s album Whatever We Probably Already Had It, which was released towards the end of last year, and now the band ..
Most American artists we only get to know from their record releases but it seems T.C. Costello drops over this side of the broad Atlantic ..
Pet Shimmers – Feels Hz (featuring Goat Girl) Sleaford Mods – O.B.C.T. William The Conqueror – Thank Me Later Wye Oak – ..
The Cactus Blossoms are a Minneapolis-based brother duo and will release their forthcoming album Easy Way (out 1st March via Walkie Talkie ..
We’re a sucker for some outlaw country and southern gothic and Renee Wahl delivers in spades on her new album Cut To The Bone, which ..
We’ve already posted a couple of tracks from Lonesome Shack’s upcoming long player Desert Dreams. Our advance copy is already ..
Quite literally just last week I was talking to someone about what had happened to A.A.Bondy who was last heard of (musically at least) ..
For more than two decades, Damien Jurado has sung folk songs brimming with prophetic imagination. Whether singing ballads about killers, ..
The day just keeps on getting better. No sooner did we have the details of the new Felice Brothers album, than we discover a new single ..
Happy days! After three long years, we have an announcement of a new album from the Felice Brothers. Undress was recorded in the late summer ..
Born out of the Rust Belt, and with influences that span decades and range from classic artists such as Dylan and the Stones, to grunge ..
Dark Tea is songwriter Gary Canino who will release a self-titled debut album on 22nd March via Fire Talk. It is a collection of warm, country ..
Nearly 13 years since his proper debut as Viking Moses, Baltimore musician Brendon Massei is slated to release his fifth album, Cruel Child. ..
Los Angeles-based artist, Hand Habits has shared can’t calm down, the latest single from upcoming album, placeholder. It is a lovely ..
Slim Cessna offshoot DBUK release their new album Nine Through Sixteen at the end of this week (order here). It is a record of haunting, ..
Pink Chameleons are a new three piece band fronted by Black Lizard’s Paltsa-Kai Salama (Vocals & Guitar) with Antti Sauli (Bass) ..
We shared Lonesome Shack’s excellent track Past The Ditch just before Christmas, and now we have a second (top) tune from their forthcoming ..
Here is Part 3 and the final part of our 2018 Round Up’s where we catch up with the releases that we couldn’t give a decent ..
On 12th April, Native Harrow, an indie folk-pop outfit out of New York’s Hudson River Valley will release their new album Happier ..
Gotta love Townes Van Zandt, and particularly the news that a previously unreleased collection of songs titled Sky Blue will be released ..
Timothy Showalter, aka Strand of Oaks, has been through some dark, dark times recently. Times when he felt certain his songwriting days ..
Following the release of their 7” single Runnin at the tail end of last year, Ohtis have announced the release of their ..
Back with a bang – no less than fifteen corking new tunes to check out from last week… Sleaford Mods – Kebab Spider The Coathangers ..
We’re very much looking forward to Sharon Van Etten’s upcoming album Remind Me Tomorrow (out next week) and the latest track ..
Steve Earle & The Dukes have announced the release of new album GUY on 29th March. The 16-song set is comprised of songs written by one of his two primary ..
And here, finally, are MM’s own choices for favourite tunes of 2018. Happy New Year one and all… 10 Frog – American ..
Back again like a carrion crow to roadkill. Every year since 2009, Chris T Popper has shared his favourite tunes of the year, and we love ..
Dr Roddy had been gone for a while trying to make a new life on land. Fuckwit. I have been absent from the house of Mackerel for a couple ..
We rounded-up and shared a few songs yesterday that we had missed while posting our countdown of our favourite songs of the year. Here is a second ..
Having been very focused on our Best of Year tracks recently, we’ve built up a bit of a backlog of new tunes to share, so thought ..
So here we have it – the top of the pile! Our favourite songs of 2018. 25 Ought – Disgraced In America Way back in January, ..
Into the top half of our favourite songs of the year. Here are tracks 50 through to 26. 50 Murder By Death – True Dark Murder ..
It’s time for MM’s annual round up of our favourite songs of the year. Thanks as always go to all our regular contributors – ..
Their has been a few great debut Celtic-Punk albums during 2018 but here is one of the very best from North Carolina’s the Tan and Sober ..
Fat Earthers -Letter Bomb Howe Gelb – A Thousand Kisses Deep (featuring M.Ward) The Chills – Bad Sugar Mount Hudson – ..
Traveling On is the title song from The Decemberists’ new EP, all five of which are unreleased tracks from the same sessions ..
We’ve not been able to post much recently, which is a great shame, given how much good new stuff has been appearing over the last ..
Post Lovers, the Athens-based act of songwriter and vocalist Eleni Karageorgou have announced the release of their self-titled debut album, ..
Moulded in the raw poeticism of Lou Reed and Nico-era Velvet Underground, sixteen year old Gabriella Rose’s dynamic songwriting ..
Loving this track of stripped back, insistently sparse folk from New York duo Frog. The wonderfully poignant and unrestrained Bones comes ..
The ultimate 60’s folk singing radical who put protest songs on the map and wrote the most sincere and provocative material of his day. I ..
Many, many moons ago (actually back in 2009) when Chris T Popper and I went to Austin for the first time for SxSW, pretty much by happy ..
Nashville crooner Nicole Atkins, has shared her take on the Guns N’ Roses ballad, November Rain and enlisted the assistance ..
Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Kyle Field of Little Wings, and Kramies have decided to release the first ‘Split- Trio’ or Tri-Single’ ..
It seems like Rich Ragany (The ROLE MODELS) never stops to write songs! On this first solo album, he got some help from musicians who played ..
Conor Oberst – No One Changes Deer Tick – White City (Pogues cover) Deer Tick – Strange, Awful Feeling Sufjan Stevens ..