Having spent a lot of time there in the past we always have a soft spot for the Isle of Wight (especially the mini golf in Shanklin with a tiny cafe offering the largest cake portions in the UK), and we have high hopes for four-piece Coach Party who still live and work there. They have today released their debut EP Party Food on Chess Club … Continue reading New Video: Coach Party – Bleach
Steve Earle has released a brand new song, Times Like These (Acoustic Version) on the heels of his recently released, and excellent, Ghosts of West Virginia album. Times Like These was originally written at the beginning of the Trump Presidency with Earle intending it for his next studio album. He was then approached by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, a playwright team who would create Coal … Continue reading Steve Earle – Times Like These
In her new video for the cryptically titled Too Big for the Glory Hole, Mackenzie Scott of TORRES captures domestic solitude in her now-iconic cowboy boots. The song, partially influenced by Florine Stettheimer’s painting The Cathedrals of Wall Street, was recorded during the Silver Tongue sessions and featured on a free 7-inch included with the album’s Peak Vinyl edition. She says of the track, “I wrote … Continue reading New Video: Torres: Too Big For The Glory Hole
The infectiously catchy Double Denim Hop, the new single from Welsh quartet Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, expertly mixes 70s glam stomp with a 90s slacker pop attitude, and somehow while remaining fresh, still comes up with a triumphant and nostalgic nod to the past. It is the opening track from an upcoming ten track release The Non-Stop EP, due out on the 10th July via Missing Piece … Continue reading Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard – Double Denim Hop
From the ashes of the Ohio rock band Buffalo Killers (who featured many times on MM), singers/songwriters/siblings Zachary and Andy Gabbard have re-emerged as The Gabbard Brothers. And while there are still similarities to their previous band, with nods to greats like Neil Young, James Gang and Buffalo Springfield, there’s a hazier, organic, earthy-psych vibe running through the brothers’ new music. Ease into your day with … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Gabbard Brothers
Influenced by the likes of Jay Reatard, The Cramps, and 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster, London trio We are Dead Horse trade in a deliciously sleazy brand of low-down garage punk. They are self-releasing their debut 5 track EP Dead Horse I on 10th July and have shared the video for first track, Night. Continue reading New Video: Dead Horse – Night
All Them Witches will return with a new album, their first as a trio, called Nothing as the Ideal on September 4th. The record is their most experimental work to date. It’s also their heaviest album and we’re very much liking the sound of lead track Saturnine & Iron Jaw, a near seven minute slow, bluesy burn that takes off from a looping, chiming intro and … Continue reading All Them Witches Share Saturnine & Iron Jaw
Inspired by a painting in the Imperial War Museum, The Blinders have shared their new single and video, Mule Track, the latest to be taken from their upcoming album Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath, out on 17th July via Modern Sky UK. A brooding blend of driving guitars and distorted vocals, the track weaves between explosive crescendos of volatile intensity and woozy passages … Continue reading New Video: The Blinders – Mule Track
Nothing At All is the first single from folky singer-songwriter Emma Kupa’s upcoming debut solo album It Will Come Easier – which is due out on the 18th September. Musically inspired by Satellite of Love and about feeling frustrated with yourself and with a situation, it gallops out of the stalls on a furious acoustic strum with only the soothing vocal harmonies able to dampen … Continue reading New From Emma Kupa
Bristol group LICE have released their new single Arbiter via their own label SETTLED LAW. The A side is woozy, disorientating and industrial, a brilliantly deranged savaging of modern day mindless fad-following that is menacing and confrontational and uncompromising – unlike so much else that is out there. It is backed with Folla, an experimental mash of the weird and the wired, intoned vocals over samples … Continue reading New Single From LICE
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