The way from Sacred Animals’ native Wexford to Dublin is straight enough, running through the edge of the Wicklow mountains south of Dublin. But you only have to veer a few miles off the main road and suddenly you’re up in the mountains. From the Sally Gap you can look out across Lough Tay hundreds of metres below and see the wind carving its way … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Sacred Animals
Two Tears come with a great garage rock pedigree featuring Kerry Davis on guitar and vocals and a rotating cast of musicians. Need proof? She started out in 90s LA girl group The Red Aunts, went on to be the drummer in the Screws and played in Beehive and The Barracudas. So you probably know what to expect and you’d be right. Her latest single features … Continue reading Introducing…Two Tears
Fosdyk Well have entered the realm of nightmares and dreamscapes with mini album Slumber And Stark Lots. It is a brilliantly disorientating mix of uneasy folk and ambient experiment where it seems as though… well nothing is actually what it seems. We’re absolutely loving the off-kilter acoustic strum and queasy feel of First Gravity – happily it makes Fosdyk Well another strong candidate for our favourite new … Continue reading Introducing…Fosdyk Well
Whistle the Dirges is the debut album from Savannah’s General Oglethorpe & The Panhandlers and was released earlier this month. It contains twelve songs that are held together by a strong sense of rock and roll; of the eclectic; of classic themes (untimely death, lost love, gentrification, summer sweat); of traditional folk; of varied influences (Modest Mouse to The Beatles by way of the Elephant Six … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…General Oglethorpe & The Panhandlers
Early in January we posted about Chad Kichula and gave you an excellent stomp-along track called Killer from his latest album of the same name.. We now have the vidoe to bring you too, so watch and if you don’t have it yet, grab the song below. Visit his MySpace here. Or his website here. Download Chad Kichula – Killer mp3 (from Killer) Continue reading Killer Video from Chad Kichula
A couple of days ago we posted the one minute forty four seconds of ramshackle lo-fi that was the track, TV Luv Song – a new demo from Wavves. Barely 72 hours later we have another new track Horse Shoes. This time it is an altogether weightier four minutes plus…and reworked from a Daytotter session…and pretty hectic! Download Wavves – Horse Shoes mp3 Continue reading More from Wavves
Both the previous releases from The Sandwitches have gone down very well here at MM, and their recent EP collaboration with Sonny Smith is still receiving repeated plays after making our December Best of posting. So we were delighted to find out via GvB that a new album, Mrs Jones’ Cookies is imminent, featuring more of the dark and poignant swirling psych-pop that so marked … Continue reading New from The Sandwitches
The excellently named Bored Man Overboard is a seven-piece band from northern Stockholm. Originally formed by four friends in the high school cafeteria in spring 2007, they then grew larger bit by bit until January 2008, when the band finally consisted of seven members. In October 2009, the EP Sinner Song was released, where the title song became the trailer track for the American show Dexter. And it is … Continue reading Introducing…Bored Man Overboard
Canadians Timber Timbre’s self titled debut album rightly picked up a lot of plaudits for its spooky, sparse, sinister, and sometimes downright malevolent take on folk music. The restrained approach served the album exceptionally well, and we were particularly looking forward to them playing at the End of the Road festival last year. Sadly circumstances prevented them making it on the day, but we’re glad … Continue reading New from Timber Timbre
On the night before Christmas we introduced you to the rather spiffing The Angry Years in the shape of Dress Yourself As Someone Dead and admired a band still going hard at it on Christmas Eve. So we’re happy to share their latest offering with you now. Another great song title in The Depressing Resurgence of One Liner Comedy and encouragingly it is more spiky indie rock … Continue reading More from The Angry Years
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