Tagged: Country

Fresh Picks: Scenic Route To Alaska.

Scenic Route To Alaska – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, Scenic Route To Alaska are a band creating what essentially equates to Pop and Indie music with substance and that isn’t something easy to achieve in these auto-tuned times. The band take Country-esque vocals and guitar-tones but add...

Fresh Harvest #2.

VACAY – Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photo credit – Mark Klassen. Starting off todays Fresh Harvest we have Toronto singer-songwriter VACAY and his latest single ‘Shoes’. Now I know what you’re thinking and no, it isn’t another catchy Pop-song about feeling your best in your new pair of kicks, rather a...

Hush Mozey At A Glance…

Hush Mozey – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Sometimes we like to scribble just a few words. Enough words to create an inclination in the minds (ears?) of those who read our work, to go and indulge in the plethora of musical talent we feature… or something like that. Hush Mozey...

Tim Smyth & The Holy Trash and The ‘Greedy Eyes’ EP.

Tim Smyth & The Holy Trash – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Melbourne music scene is certainly something, it’s a scene that harbours a great deal of creativity and eclectic musicianship in it’s diverse range of bands, artists, line-ups, record shops and culture. Tim Smyth & The Holy Trash hail from...

Hunter and The Bear – ‘I Am What I Am’

Hunter & The Bear – London, England, United Kingdom. It seems we have US-influenced London-borne Rock for you today MFers, as a short time ago I received this total beat of a chill track in the form of ‘I Am What I Am’, the latest single from four lads “done-good”, Hunter...

The Northeast – The ‘Jericho’ EP.

The Northeast – Mount Kisco, New York, USA. Initially forming in 2012 but really coming into themselves in 2015, New York state’s The Northeast are the perfect soundtrack for the free and easy in generality as well as on those days and nights of comfort and happiness. Rooting their sound...

Donkey Island Penitentiary – ‘Exile On 4th Street’.

Donkey Island Penitentiary – Los Angeles, California, USA. Escaped convicts of Donkey Island Penitentiary are creeping through the underground of the LA Punk scene. Armed with guitars and harmonicas, the Country-Blues-Punk criminals have recently released their debut EP Exile On 4th Street and if their name didn’t grip you enough, the...

The “Genre” Thing and That Whole Grey Area

Music debates regarding bands, genres, credibility and more; the music scene is always full of discussion, and it often leads to some pointless, and often heated, arguments. I’m lucky enough to have a group of friends and “colleagues” that are passionate about the music they love, going to festivals and/or simply finding new sounds...

I Can’t Tell You… Literally A Band For Everyone.

I Can’t Tell You – Long Beach, California, USA. ‘Original music in a variety of styles’ – That’s the band’s simple one-liner when asked what they play. Bang on too. You know those conversations about music you have with people that can sometimes lead to answers such as; ‘I like a bit...

Giant Burger – Diversity For Your Music Diet

Giant Burger – Hackney, London, United Kingdom. Giant Burger are a band. A band from London. They make music. Weird, wonderful and chilled out music and that’s something we love at MF; a band doing what they want to do and it sounding great. Hailing from Hackney, Giant Burger are...