The February installment of the Feel Bad For You Mixtape is up and streaming. The FBFY mixtape has entered a new segment of it's life moving from a message board tape curated by Ms. Rockstar Aimz , of My Aimz Is True , to a mixtape put together by a collection of (mostly) like minded bloggers. You can stream it below and head over to the official FBFY mixtape web site for some dialog on why each song was selected. Track Listing: 01. Shayfer James - Title: Weight [...]

With probably the longest entry of 2011 we give the floor to regular MM contributor and top ten compiler...Dr Roddy. Well it seems to be that time of year again. I always spend 340 days looking forward to doing this and 25 agonising over it. This year especially though, as I think there has been a bumper harvest of great songs. When I looked at my Top Ten playlist (with over 100 songs in it) I just thought one thing: bugger! I got there in the end though. There have been certain parties that have tried [...]

Here are the juiciest cuts from our May postings rounded up and presented as one marvellous mix plus a couple of cracking new tracks as well. Be sure to check out all our previous 'Best Of the Month' mixes in the sidebar too. Download Country Mice – Morning Son mp3 (from Twister) Country rock and blistering sonic experiments combining to deliver a brilliant apocalyptic ballad. Download Howling Owls – Hay Fever mp3 (from When Tipsy Turns Somber EP) Deliciously ominous folk music that creeps from the edges of [...]

It's that time again. A few gems gathered from some of our favourite blogs and a couple of the blogosphere's favourite big hitters with some new material. Pick 'n' mix time! The Black Lips follow the rather splendid Modern Art with another slice of premium garage rock from their new album Arabia Mountain , with New Direction . Thee Oh Sees also mine a rich seam of 60s infused garage-psych and I Need Seed comes from new album Castlemania . [...]

You may remember my rather colorful description of these kids from Nawlins from my review of their first effort. In fact that was my favorite line from any my reviews from last year. Ain't nothin' changed between the last album and this one and that's a good thing! That isn't to say they made the same music but rather that they built on the idea and the sounds and made another bad ass chunk of music. I have to admit that this music makes me a little crazy in a mostly good way. In general it makes me [...]

firstly, new orleans' dirty bourbon river show aint gonna be for everyone. secondly, that shouldnt scare anyway away from digging into their brand of gypsy folk circus rock - their description not mine. their recently released volume two, but actually their 3rd record. its sounds like what maybe a lot of people think new orleans sounds like, full of horns, carnival barking, lyrics full of debauchery and possibly about pirates and just an overall vibe of we dont give a shit what you think. the record is a beautiful mess of all of that. let me clarify, its [...]

This week's Top 5 is all about songs that have quotable lyrics. I mean lyrics that just jump out at you. It can be a single line or even the whole damn song. I think mine are all one or two lines and some are just because they make me giggle. This one was so tough I just picked out the first five I thought of and maybe that's cheating but there's just so damn much good music out there that it's impossible for me to make a decision. Anyway I want to see your favorite quotes [...]

If Nick Cave, a carnival barker, Jayne Mansfield, and the French Quarter had a love child it would be the five headed beast known as Dirty Bourbon River Show. Based in New Orleans these boys live up to their name even on a studio album and by that I mean you feel a little bit dirty and a lot like you need a glass of bourbon when you listen to them. Formed in 2009 under the name "Buck Johnson and the Hootenanny Kid" with just frontman Noah Adams and drummer Dane "Bootsy" Schindler they picked up Big Charlie Skinner [...]

Well guys, I missed out on an Events post last week due to being busy busy busy at work (and as a result, you may have missed a fantastic pair of PDogs shows), so I have made sure to bring you the latest goings-ons in and around Dallas for the weekend. Follow the jump to find the events themselves and links to tickets (if available). Thursday, July 16 Bob Schneider | Rock House Studio (Link goes to Myspace) Gay Blades / Person L [...]