We're tired of roundups masquerading as recommendations. Your search for music reccos ends with Listen Up!; our weekly pick of acts you should check out. Commercial sellouts /swashbuckling rock 'n roll badasses The Black Keys recently released their seventh studio album, El Camino . Like the two albums that preceded it (20102s Brothers and 20082s Attack and Release ), El Camino was produced by Danger Mouse and is another unabashed exploration of swaggalicious rock 'n roll, replete with tantalisingly juicy licks (ref [...]

Click image to download full album Sounds like: PJ Harvey, Portishead, Patti Smith, Jack White "Abbe May - Taurus Chorus" What's so good? Beware! The first time you listen to this album your head might blow up. Abbe May is 100% rock, and her third album, Design Desire , needs to be handled with the utmost care. From the seemingly endless talent pool [...]
After four years of honing her skills in the Australian outback, guitar goddess Abbe May is set to destroy the entire rock world. Her new solo album Design Desire is bursting with the most righteous and gnarly blues-laced guitar sound this side of the White Stripes and the Pack a.d., drifting majestically beneath honest, take-no-prisoners vocals dripping with tasteful effects. This record destined to break 2011 wide open with truth-bombs. The proof is all in...

Artist: Abbe May From: Perth (Australia) Label: Sandcastle Music Info: Facebook :: Website Round these parts, we're perhaps a little quick to jump on the Kylie bandwagon when anyone suggests anything related to female Australian songstresses. However that leap really needs updating so as to include Abbe May in the mix. Who exactly is she you may ask? Well Abbe [...]

Western Australia's Abbe May is quite the rock goddess! 2 albums and 2 EPs into her career, she has already garnered a lot of attention nationally and internationally. Abbe shares a slice of her musical life. A Has Been: People have described your music as sexual blues. Do you agree? Abbe May: Its certainly a very flattering description! I think music can definitely have a seductive effect. It's not really up to me to label my own music like that.. So if other people want to that's fine. [...]

Blues/Rock @ Perth, Australia Myspace | Website | Facebook I raved about her in part 3 of my 3-part series of LISTEN UP! Australia , and now the Aussie blues siren Abbe May answers some of A Mindful Earful's questions about listening to music growing up, her sound, and some of her favourite albums of the year. (Plus, she has some harsh opinions on manufatured music by Katy Perry and Taylor Swift.) So, get ready for some lengthy, intelligent answers [...]
Abbe May is a Perth based blues singer songwriter and has been making a bit of a name for herself, especially of late. Her track Mammalian Locomotion has been getting a fair bit of play on Triple J, and rightly so. It's this straight out blues number that kind of kicks it hard. Check out [...]

Western Australia's ABBE MAY has released a new remix of her new single "Mammalian Locomotion" from Tame Impala's Kevin Parker and Cam Avery . Hot from their award for album of the year from Australia's Triple J radio, the duo has done a cracking job in bringing out another side to Abbe's blues rock sound. Australian journalists have flagged her as a pioneering and important presence in the future of rock and roll and upon hearing Abbe May's new single,...

Image from West Of Centre I’m currently snowed under with school work and high amounts of fantastic music. Songs good enough to feed to your pets. Youtube: Abbe May - Mammalian Locomotion A simply outstanding, dirty guitar driven song. These types of guitar solos would be what Dallas Crane would be doing if they didn't fall to shit. Honestly though, I probably wouldn't have posted this should the clip not been so good. Take note of the [...]
Abbey May's video for "Mammalian Locomotion" was filmed in Brooklyn with director Zena Loxto. http://www.abbemay.com/ Facebook