MM wasn’t the only one snapping pictures from Truck Festival this year. Here are a selection from Moo, our own mini Mad Mackerel. a Download Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep mp3 (from Losing Sleep) Download Caitlin Rose – Shotgun Wedding mp3 (from Dead Flowers EP) Download Justin Townes Earle – Harlem River Blues mp3 (from Harlem River Blues) Download Sea of Bees – The Woods mp3 (from The Woods EP) Download … Continue reading More Truck Festival Pictures
Turf War are a party band with raucous and rowdy live shows, and energetic, catchy rock songs. Their debut album Years of Living Dangerously is out in October on Old Flame Records. Until then you can pop a beer, tap your feet and party along to Cheers To The Years. Download Turf War – Cheers To The Years mp3 (from Years Of Living Dangerously) Continue reading Introducing…Turf War
We posted recently about the forthcoming album from Peg Simone, and her eerie, otherworldly approach to blues and folk featuring lingering, ghostly guitar riffs and silver-tongued vocals. Here is another new track, and it is another beauty! Visit her Facebook page here. Download Peg Simone – Wait For Night mp3 Download Peg Simone – Piece Of Pie mp3 (from Piece Of Pie) Continue reading More From Peg Simone
It’s Friday – I’ve made it, just. All the sprats are very different, adorably different and utterly adorable. This week, Joe (the youngest at seven) has re-cast himself as one travelling troubadour. Guitar in hand, he travels as far as the living room, sometimes to the kitchen to perform his self-penned tunes, all strummed in G. From Try and Love Me If You Can (who … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (29th July)
We’ve already given you two excellent tracks from psych-folkies Efren’s new album, Rise On Up And Melt. Now we have a third, and this time it is the seven minute mini-epic of Mr Greene. Efren is led by Scott Low who fell into a dark marital separation as the record was being recorded. A new outlook on the album came about. Though not the original … Continue reading Efren Release Third Track From Rise On Up And Melt
We were big fans of Amen Dunes sparse and thrillingly malevolent Murder Dull Mind EP, which came out last year and was a follow up to his debut album DIA. His second album will be released in August and is titled Through Donkey Jaw via Sacred Bones (rapidly becoming our favourite label of the moment). This is a first taste with track Lower Mind and it is, to our … Continue reading New Album From Amen Dunes
Giant Drag’s album Hearts And Unicorns came out in 2005 and was packed full of cracking tunes that spanned influences from Mazzy Star to MBV and from grunge to a kind of warped suburban Americana. It was a standout from the year, but no one expected to wait six years for a follow-up. In fact, until today, I’d kind of assumed they had called it a … Continue reading Giant Drag Are Back
With his band Nine Black Alps on indefinite hiatus, bassist Martin Cohen found he had time on his hands, recording at home Milk Maid’s debut album Yucca. The result is an album that might have come out on Creation Records in their 80’s heyday, recalling indie stalwarts like Comet Gain and marrying timeless pop hooks to the raw spontaneity of home recording, and sweet, sun-drenched … Continue reading New Milk Maid Single
Stepping away from the rhythm section of Orange County surf-punk bashers The Moonhearts, Mikal Cronin has emerged with a fully realized, cohesive and beautiful debut self-titled LP, out September 20, via Chicago’s Trouble In Mind. Cronin blends sweet melodies and chords with chunky, psychedelic guitar freak-outs so if you’ve ever wondered what the Beach Boys would sound like if they became pals with the Ramones…this is a … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Mikal Cronin
We posted just a couple of days ago about Case Studies, the new project from Jesse Lortz following the demise of the Dutchess & The Duke. Stereogum have premiered a third song from the forthcoming album The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night. It was simply too good not to re-post! The album is out on August 16 on Sacred Bones Download Case … Continue reading More From Case Studies
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