All Tiny Creatures is the side project of Thomas Wincek, who is also in Collections of Colonies of Bees, which is the band that collaborated with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver fame to form Volcano Choir. Confused? Don’t be. All you need to know is All Tiny Creatures have released a track from their forthcoming album, Harbors, which again features Justin Vernon, and is titled An … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…All Tiny Creatures
We Are Trees hail from Virginia Beach, and are offering up this four track EP titled Boyfriend from their Bandcamp site for free. Just click here. We suggest you make the minimal effort required to grab a copy as it is lovely lush, folk-pop that vocally has drawn lots of favourable comparisons with Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear as well as Bon Iver. The four … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…We Are Trees
Rooftop Vigilantes are playing this year’s Scion Garage Fest, taking place in their hometown of Lawrence, KS on October 2. The Oblivians, The Gories, The Raveonettes, The Greenhornes, The Ponys and King Khan & The Shrines, Cloud Nothings, Best Coast and Thee Oh Sees are amongst the excellent headliners of the free festival, being held at a handful of Lawrence venues. The entire festival is … Continue reading Introducing…Rooftop Vigilantes
Hot on the heels of the sleazy, grimy punk blues of the Jim Jones Revue which we posted a couple of days ago comes the er well, sleazy, grimy punk blues of The Ex-Girlfriends Club. Although these Portland, Oregon boys have a touch more glam rock about them than our UK version. We posted something from these guys last year which went down well on … Continue reading New single from Ex-Girlfriends Club
We have to confess that we were hitherto unaware of Baby Eagle, the ‘other’ band of Steve Lambke and given our lack of knowledge of The Constantines catalogue, we didn’t have hugely high expectations. All the better then to discover that Day Of Our Departing the advance track from new album Dog Weather (which was released yesterday on You’ve Changed Records) is a beauty with echoes … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Baby Eagle
We were big admirers of the first Duke & The King album, 2009’s Nothing Gold Can Stay, a lovely mix of melancholy, country tinged folk songs from Simone Felice and partners. Following the critical acclaim that greeted the debut album, the band are back with the September 20th release of their new single Shaky on Loose Music / Silva Oak. Shaky previews the band’s second album … Continue reading New single from The Duke & The King
We became aware of Haunted Windchimes via an eMusic recommendation and having some credits to use, duly downloaded the album Honey Moonshine as much for the great name and great artwork as anything else. And, boy are we glad we did. It is a wonderful album of authentic, bewitching folk that draws you in and holds you tight. Beautiful harmonies and the traditional topics of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Haunted Windchimes
A few days ago we posted about noir-ish lounge-country rockers White Dress and their excellent new self-titled EP. At the time we didn’t have release details, but the label have been in touch to say it is now available as a completely free download. So, we’ve given you two tracks already, another new one is below, and you can get the final two just by clicking … Continue reading White Dress EP – Free Download
A while ago we posted a video from The Jim Jones Revue from their forthcoming album Burning Your House Down which is out on 6th September. Now we can give you Big Len, a frenzied slice of sleazy, tribal pyschobilly in the vein of the punk blues of legends The Jon Spencer’s Blues Explosion – just faster, dirtier and sexier. There are a list of … Continue reading New from The Jim Jones Revue
Soft Moon is the work of one Luis Vasquez from San Francisco. He produces lush, creepy, sometimes delicate soundscapes with sparse vocals, if indeed there are vocals at all. Our favourite release so far is the throbbing, synth-led Parallels that sounds like it was born from the dark heart of the 80s musical underworld and escaped into a future somewhat akin to the vision of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Soft Moon
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