Dolfish is Max Sollisch. A fellow from Columbus, Ohio who writes sad, bitter, humorous country songs only to bang them out in two minutes or less in balls to the wall garage-rock fashion. This is his new 7″ Your Love Is Bummin’ Me Out. It has one of the best sleeves of the year and is released today via Afternoon Records. Download Dolfish – Your Love … Continue reading MM Shorts 59: Dolfish
Michael Doughty is an inspiration and influence for many a musician. Ahead of the release of his fourth solo album Yes and Also Yes – and first biographical offering The Book of Drugs, both released on 23rd January – the revered former Soul Coughing front-man is also giving us a musical taster in the form of seasonal single Holiday (What Do You Want?). Not only that, … Continue reading Christmas Post 9: Michael Doughty & Roseanne Cash
MAD MACKEREL’S TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS For our first ever Festive Feature on Mad Mackerel, we asked twelve of our favourite bands and artists of 2011 to answer twelve questions and we will publish them over the next twelve days taking us up to Christmas Eve. Kicking us off on Day 1 are Twilight Hotel who released the superb When The Wolves Go Blind album … Continue reading (FESTIVE FEATURE) THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS No 1: TWILIGHT HOTEL
On February 7, next year, Fluff & Gravy Records will release Drunken Prayer’s sophomore full-length, Into the Missionfield, an eleven track collection of dark tales and darker melodies. A journey down a path less travelled, but always more rewarding. Call it what you will – alt. country, Americana, folk-rock, or a number of other genres, Drunken Prayer makes an honest tune, an unflinching narrative of the harsh and beautiful harmonies … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Drunken Prayer
Here are a few more videos that we’ve enjoyed recently. First up is a welcome return for Goldheart Assembly and a song called Linnaeus that comes from their second album due out in spring next year. Also keeping it pretty mellow is Kathleen Edwards with the video for her forthcoming single, Change The Sheets. a The Inspired And The Sleep offer up some sunburnt lo-fi … Continue reading Video Round Up
Uncompromising and heavy defines the authentic blues influenced pysch-rock of Howlin Rain, and they describe the making of their third album The Russian Wilds as “trying to blend Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Steely Dan’s Gaucho and Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge of Town“. First taste of the album (out on Valentines Day 2012 via American Recordings) comes in the form of Phantom In The Valley. … Continue reading MM Shorts 58: Howlin’ Rain
We have posted about Ryne Warner’s band Ohioan a couple of times in the lifetime of Mad Mackerel and so it was good news indeed to receive an e-mail from him with news of an album provocatively titled Balls Deep In Babylon. Having listened to it a few times, it is one of those records that slowly but surely grips you and then begins to … Continue reading Ohioan – Balls Deep In Babylon
It’s been a long, tiring and sad week. Death is all around, so it seems. And even when you’re viewing it in the third person, it’s hard to watch. It settles over you with a deft hand, weighting its heaviness into your head and inevitably your heart. Yet still the world continues to turn; life does go on for the rest of us, so it … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Saturday (10th December)
One thing you realise as the end of the year approaches and “best of” lists from everywhere start appearing is – despite every effort to the contrary – just how much you’ve missed out on during 2011. Evil Hand is a case in point – the comments on Song By Toad’s post of Friday led me to search out his album Huldra (free download here) … Continue reading Christmas Post 8: Evil Hand
About a year ago we wrote about the fabulously named Australian band, The Oyster Murders. Back then we posted Ghosts In Our Wake, and this track is now the lead song available as part of a four track EP for a “pay what you want” deal on their Bandcamp page here. Here is the video too: a Download The Oyster Murders – Ghosts In Our Wake … Continue reading More From The Oyster Murders
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