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Dino Valente Reissue 27 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
I read about Dino Valente in The Best Music You’ve Never Heard, the excellent collection of musical essays covering a whole host of forgotten and neglected classics waiting for rediscovery. Author of...
Videos of the Day: Dr. Dog || Lorelle Meets The Obsolete || Basia Bulat || Diarrhea Planet || TV Ghost 27 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
Five top notch videos today come from Dr. Dog and their reappropriated footage to accompany the excellent Broken Heart, and similarly from Lorelle Meets The Obsolete we have a suitably antiquated expe...
Son of Dave Is Back 26 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
Back in 2008 we were big fans of one-man-band Son of Dave’s album 03, and his whole 1940s private detective look with sharp suit and trilby. Since then we’ve also enjoyed 2010s Shake A Bone, but all h...
The Twenty Best Things We Heard, Saw, And Discovered At The Green Man Festival 26 Aug 2013 | 02:25 pm
Click to view slideshow. Our first visit to the brilliant Green Man Festival. Here are the twenty best things we heard, saw and discovered over the weekend. 1. The Parquet Courts live up to the hype...
MM Short 433: Colour Of Bone 25 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
Keep It That Way is the new single release from Colour Of Bone. Not as heavy as previous singles, it has echoes of Beck or even Elliott Smith and a curiously lullaby like chorus… Order from Bandcamp ...
Introducing Mickey Gloss 25 Aug 2013 | 07:08 pm
Mickey Gloss left the east coast of Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in summer 2011. Signposting all of that anarchy and energy is excellent lead single Are You Happy?, ...
Latest Free American Songwriter Sampler 25 Aug 2013 | 02:28 pm
The Muse is the title of the regular free sampler from American Songwriter and the September offering is a cracker – twelve brilliant tracks including such MM faves as Okkervil River, Hurray for the R...
MM Shorts 432: Charlie Straight 24 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
Charlie Straight have scheduled a release date for new single Coco, due to be dropped September 16th. Haunting and hooky vocal lines, powerful riffs, steady yet hypnotizing beat and distinctively ang...
New EP From Wolf Alice 24 Aug 2013 | 02:17 pm
We were big fans of Wolf Alice’s first two singles so when a promo of their latest release, a four track EP titled Blush, dropped through the letterbox we gave it a spin pretty much straight away. Wh...
Caitlin Rose: New Single & UK Tour 23 Aug 2013 | 11:41 pm
New country queen, Caitlin Rose is releasing the rollicking ‘done-you-wrong’ single Waitin’ next month, and she has added some extra dates to her current UK tour. Have a listen and check out the tour...
