We Are Augustines | O2 Academy, Oxford | 5 July 2012 Where do you start? This wasn’t just a gig; it was a whole lot more than that. For one thing, there were four other support acts, one of whom we missed, one of whom I really wish we had missed, one that I enjoyed, and one that sort of just washed over me. For … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel Reviews We Are Augustines
Hot on the heels of Middle Brother and Diamond Rugs, comes Denver, the latest Americana ‘supergroup’ collaboration – this time between members of the wonderful Blitzen Trapper and Alela Diane’s Wild Divine. The Way It Is is the first song to be released from their forthcoming self-titled debut album, and a better slow-burn of dusty, country rock you’ll be hard pressed to find this side of Laurel … Continue reading MM Shorts 187: Denver
Although we now have a regular Video of the Day post on Mad Mackerel, we still can’t keep up with all that we’re being sent and here are a few more of the videos we would like to have featured well before now. Face-melting UK four piece Trails are making quite a name and quite a noise for themselves. Latest video is for new track Is … Continue reading Time For Another Video Round Up…
Weaving worn guitars, Autoharp, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and two hauntingly powerful voices and embracing a love for the Carter Family and a DIY punk ethos, The Driftwood Singers encapsulate an old timey era with decidedly forward looking and somehow timeless songs. They have announced a string of US summer tour dates. Download If I Take That Notion from their most recent 7″. Tour dates can be … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Driftwood Singers
a Download Deep Time – Clouds mp3 (from Deep Time) Continue reading Video of the Day: Deep Time
Time to blow our own trumpet. But, boy are we looking good now…thanks to Combe Carrie! Download The Screaming Blue Messiahs – You’re Gonna Change mp3 (from Good & Gone EP) Continue reading We Are Looking Good…
Well, Jesus may not want me for a sunbeam, but Beth Jeans Houghton has made me an honorary Hoof of Destiny. That tops all previous great life achievements, barring children/childbirth I think. I have been balancing on four coconut shells ever since, eating from a nosebag, rejecting my piscine ways and embracing the equine style. There are now plenty of flies on me, but none … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (6th July)
Wake Up Lucid is a LA based three piece band of cousins that combines sex-drenched vocals, high octane guitar, and a glorious lo-fi sludge that is garage rock at its purest and most dangerous. More grime than the Black Keys and far more savage than The White Stripes, their 2011 Sugar EP was described by Rolling Stone as “raunchy rock at it’s best”. Their debut … Continue reading Introducing >>> Wake Up Lucid
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