D.B. Rouse was born and raised in the north woods of Wisconsin, but he’s travelled everywhere with his guitar and worked in Alaska, in Maine, on a Cruise Ship in the Atlantic, and on a horse ranch near Austin Texas. He’s been a goat farmer and a lounge singer, a bartender and a pawn shop cashier, he’s packaged salmon and he’s harvested blueberries. His latest EP is called … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…D.B. Rouse
After a long absence, shoegazing noisemongers A Place To Bury Strangers are back with a new EP, Onwards To The Wall, on Dead Oceans. Here is the typically robust So Far Away. Prepare to be pulverised. Download A Place To Bury Strangers – So Far Away mp3 (from Onwards To The Wall EP) Continue reading MM Shorts 35: New EP From A Place To Bury Strangers
We recently streamed the wonderful new First Aid Kit single, the title track from forthcoming album The Lion’s Roar. Here’s the video. a Continue reading MM Shorts 34: First Aid Kit Video
We were big fans of The Morning Birds and their album The Quickening and so we were delighted to get news of their latest release, a six track EP titled Surrender To This (out on January 1st). We were even more delighted to find the trademark honeyed vocals and infectious rhythms were still very much in evidence. Check out our taster track Born To Be Alive, … Continue reading The Morning Birds Are Back
Milk & Biscuits are a lo-fi dream pop band from Brighton who will release their album Balcony Times on Big Salad Records on the 5th December. Take a listen to Rivers from the album. Continue reading MM Shorts 33: Milk & Biscuits
We’re busy catching up on a few things we weren’t able to post over the past few days. So, without further ado, here are some brilliant new ones including The Mountain Goats, the languid country rock of The Futurebirds, a brilliantly intense offering from Cloud Nothings, more icy electronica from Work Drugs, indie pop from Gross Magic and the psych blues rock of White Denim and … Continue reading MM Plays Catch Up
To celebrate our downloads working again we thought we would re-post our best of the month mix from October – more than 20 great tracks selected from our October posts and six new ones too. This time you can download and dive in. Download The Minks – Araby mp3 (from Araby 7″) Endearingly gloomy slice of indie-pop. Download The Bloody Hollies – Dirty Sex mp3 (from Yours Until The Bitter End) The dark … Continue reading Repost: Best of October 2011 Mix
All the mp3 files should now be available to download again. Continue reading Downloads Working Again
Ashtar Command’s debut album, American Sunshine, is an expansive and coherent album that defies being reduced to a single genre. Nick Drake could come to mind, as well as the Chemical Brothers. Spiritualized could be seen in there as well as The Beach Boys. There are songs of exquisite beauty and ones that unabashedly rock. The duo were joined by many of the great and … Continue reading Introducing…Ashtar Command
Hi All Continuing apologies, Box.Net still cannot seem to get to the bottom of our bandwidth issue, but keep assuring me they’re treating it as a priority. It will be a week tomorrow so as soon as we get sorted I’ll let you know. Sorry! Continue reading Download Problems Remain
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