Band Of Skulls will return with a follow up to their excellent debut album Baby Darling Doll Face Honey in early 2012. In the meantime you can check out the video for first single off the new album, The Devil Takes Care of His Own. a Continue reading MM Shorts 9: Band Of Skulls New Video
It is fair to say that Dog Scratched Ear, the first track to be released from Donkey Jacket, the new album from Welsh duo Henry’s Funeral Shoe has become the unofficial anthem of MM over the past few weeks – a perfect mix of irresistible blues boogie topped with a killer riff has made it one of our tunes of the year so far. The album … Continue reading Henry’s Funeral Shoe Release Donkey Jacket
Today has been an epic day for providing you with top quality free stuff and having already given you with the wonderful Owsley Brothers and Last American Buffalo we are going keep up the standards set and finish off the trio of posts with the brilliant Coke Weed. Purveyors of some of the most brilliantly off-kilter indie rock we’ve heard in a long time. It … Continue reading Freebie 3: Coke Weed
Last American Buffalo mine a similar rich vein of dusty Americana as MM faves The Felice Brothers and the Roadside Graves, and they do it spectacularly well. Ever since we discovered their self-titled four track EP, it has been on regular repeat and just gets better with every play. From the instantly catchy, driving folk propulsion of Thieves to the strummed indie rock of Ghosts and, … Continue reading Freebie 2: Last American Buffalo EP
We posted about the marvellous Owsley Brothers a couple of times back in the spring having been completely seduced by their mix of pulsing blues riffs and gothic country. So the good news is that they are back with a new EP titled Pure Lust, which contains five tracks including the fabulous Under the Shade Of A Live Oak, which we have posted before. The … Continue reading Freebie 1: The Owsley Brothers New EP
Here is the third track to come from Brown Bird’s new album Salt For Salt (out next week), and this time it is the brilliantly sparse and hypnotic End of Days. Another gem. Order via their Bandcamp page here. Download Brown Bird – End Of Days mp3 (from Salt For Salt) (via MOKB) UUNAYR9PSY2T Continue reading MM Shorts 8: Brown Bird Again
Zombified, Southern Culture On The Skids’ tribute to the horror and exploitation movies that populated Southern theaters and drive-ins during the 60s and 70s, has just been released on Kudzu Records. Originally released in Australia as an eight song EP in 1998, the Zombified Extended Release is now a full LP with the addition of five new tunes. It’s available for order now at Scots.com. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Southern Culture On The Skids
Bare Bones’ self-titled sophmore EP. is a stunning nod to the group’s alt- country roots. Vocals are layered over a dripping violin, a weary steel guitar and a locked in rythm section, taking one back to a time that once was. Check out the irresistible Hope & Feather, which gallops along on the back of perfectly judged fiddle and drums and calls to mind The Builders … Continue reading Introducing…Bare Bones
Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Jessi Robertson grew up in a tiny upstate New York town of under 1,000 people, but eventually moved to the big city and carved out a place for herself. The result is her excellent first full band studio album, Small Town Girls. Musically, she lives somewhere on the divide between gutsy indie rockers such as PJ Harvey and gritty Americana artists like Lucinda … Continue reading Introducing…Jessi Robertson
The wonderful Wooden Wand continues his prodigious output of late with a superb session for Daytrotter. These are four tracks that are absolutely worth grabbing including amongst them as they do the brilliant Born Bad and one of our favoutite ever WW songs, Los Angeles Manna. Grab a taste below or if you don’t need convincing (and you shouldn’t), just head over to Daytrotter here … Continue reading Wooden Wand’s Daytrotter Session
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