Month: September 2012
MM Shorts 225: Gap Dream
Gap Dream equates to mystical, stoned-to-the-bone one-man garage rock recorded on a laptop in his bedroom. And not shit. The Ali Baba 7″ will be released through Suicide Squeeze Records on a limited edition 7″ + download code (250 copies on lavender vinyl, 500 on black) and digital worldwide on 2nd October. a Continue reading MM Shorts 225: Gap Dream
New Album From Murder By Death
We have been longstanding fans of Murder By Death’s parched, dusty, and often desolate outlaw country-folk and so it was the cause of much excitement to hear the first taste from forthcoming album Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon. The brooding and cinematic Lost River is a song they describe as being “about a lover who drowned in the river calling out and beckoning the living to join … Continue reading New Album From Murder By Death
Video of the Day: Wickerbird
Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (14th September)
This evening, I’m off to take a waltz down to the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford East. It promises to be modern affair after the more traditional soiree with the Russians earlier in the week. Better find my ruby red shoes… Sadly, I shall miss the egg throwing competition tonight that kicks off the annual Street Fair, which will be undoubtedly punctuated by the annual … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (14th September)
New Release Round Up
Here are a whole bunch of appetising new releases all ready for you to try a pick and mix approach to soundtracking your weekend. Kicking us off, hypnotic indie experimentalists, The Soft Moon have another track from new album Zeros available for download. This is Insides. a The Inner Mansions, the new album from Teen Daze has been picking up lots of positive reviews and will be … Continue reading New Release Round Up
Video of the Day: Sunday Lane
Mad Mackerel Recommends…Turner Cody
We are very late to this one – it has sat unnoticed in our iTunes library since the middle of July. Shame on us. Then by chance we discovered that back in 2006, James Toth (aka MM fave Wooden Wand) released a vinyl only edition of Cody’s Quarter Century/The Great Migration on his label Mad Monk. Just like that he leapt to the top of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Turner Cody
MM Shorts 224: New From The Murder Barn
The marvellously named Murder Barn are back with a new single which is available for free download from their Bandcamp page. The also marvellously titled, In Every Sea We Drown precedes their debut EP Gotta Good Man out on 5th November. Although this track will not feature on the EP, the band are giving it away as a little freebie taster and a hint of what’s to … Continue reading MM Shorts 224: New From The Murder Barn
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