The Graceful Slicks are Oxford’s very own psych-rock warriors pumping out swirling, stoned, krautrock inspired grooves with a tasty side order of blues inflected garage and shoegaze. They have made a few demo EPs available via their Bandcamp pages and the latest (Demo 4) has three excellent tracks to sample. So seeing as it is Friday, why not turn down the lights, stick on the … Continue reading Freak Out With The Graceful Slicks
We recently posted Orpheum Bell’s track Poor Laetitia, describing it as Gypsy Americana or Country & Eastern music. It came from their scheduled new album The Old Sister’s Home, due May 8th and the band have made a new song available for free download. Daddy’s Crying is, as you might expect, a melancholy lament accompanied by suitcase pump organ, shepherd harp, oboe, violin and french horn. Over … Continue reading More From Orpheum Bell
Maverick, outlaw-country legend Ray Wylie Hubbard seems to be turning up a lot here at MM – whether it be our belated discovery of his cover of US national-anthem-in-waiting Choctaw Bingo or his sublime recent Daytrotter session, and now we find his hand in this wonderful record by gut-honest southern singer-songwriter Chelle Rose. He is the producer of Ghost of Browder Holler (out via Lil’ Damsel Records, May 1st) … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Chelle Rose
Been a little while since we’ve rounded up a few of the best tunes that have found their way into our iTunes library recently. So, here is a great way to kick off your Thursday with six tracks gathered from our in-box and our favourite blogs. First up is the brooding psych-rock of Creepoid and a slow burning track from Horse Heaven called Dream Out. … Continue reading Thursday Means Six More Of The Best
We’ve mentioned it a few times before, but if you’re not parting with $2 per month to access the daily Daytrotter sessions then more fool you. More fool you because, for example, you’ll have missed out on recent sessions from Boxer Rebellion, Slow Club, Nathaniel Rateliff, Avi Buffalo and Heartless Bastards, and you’ll have missed the excellent Wye Oak session from yesterday, that included this … Continue reading MM Shorts 123: Wye Oak’s Daytrotter Session
Anyone who is more than an occasional visitor to MM will know how much we like Tom Williams & The Boat. A lot. They’ve got a lot going on with their new album eagerly awaited (pre-order here), a brilliant taster out already in the form of My Bones, a release date for the USA (1st May – pre-order here) and now a stream of new … Continue reading Stream The New Tom Williams & The Boat Single
Brooklyn’s Palomino have released a five track digital EP of gently swirling and insistently beguiling alt-Country ballads mixed with gritty and powerfully raw Americana. The results are by turn captivating and dissonantly urgent. They also found some old 1955 footage of the 3rd Avenue elevated train in NYC and edited it to one of the standout tracks from the EP. Ghost Story is a song about old … Continue reading Introducing >>> Palomino
Not so long ago we posted London band Niteflights cover of John Cale’s Paris 1919 and they are now offering out a free 3 track EP for download. The EP has actually come about accidentally, as with a new single in the pipeline, they were demo-ing material on ‘holiday’ in a friends’ bungalow in Fife over Christmas. Professing to be “really happy with a lot of the … Continue reading Free EP from Niteflights
We’ve already posted twice about Guy Capecelatro III, so this marks a hat-trick of posts from his new album North For The Winter. Having given you the sly, mischievous wit of Girlfriends and the sparse, carefully constructed poem-like Like Anything, we have what might just be the best of the lot in his latest single, Switch. It is the tale of a killer who meets a woman … Continue reading Guy Capecelatro III’s Third From North For The Winter
The dark, slightly twisted, disfigured pop of David West aka Rat Columns is due to resurface soon with a new album titled Sceptre Hole. it is due out in a couple of months on San Francisco’s ever reliable SmartGuy Records. We have a couple of truly excellent tracks for you to listen to in the shape of the pleasing indie rumble of Frozen Over and the noisier, more discordant … Continue reading New Album From Rat Columns
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