Thoroughly enjoying these tracks from Canada’s Lonely Parade. Olive Green is the fourth song to be shared from upcoming long player The Pits and is a fabulous mix of wiry post-punk and disaffected Sonic Youth style dissonance. The propulsive, cascading guitar line is underpinned by an off-kilter rhythmic emphasis, performing an unusual call and response with the bass line, before giving way to a driving wordless … Continue reading Lonely Parade – The Pits
Kurt Vile has shared a video for Loading Zones, which collaborations apart, it is the first new music to surface from him since 2015. The video is a paean to his City of Brotherly Love, and a farcical tribute to the song’s lyrics, themselves an account of Vile’s peculiar parking strategy. “I park for free!” he proclaims, as he goes about his day moving his … Continue reading New From Kurt Vile
Ahead of a visit to European shores next month, Perth rockers Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have shared their brilliantly bombastic and eccentric new single Social Candy. It is a hazy, dense offering of swirling guitars, heavy percussion and hypnotic vocals… give it a spin below. Catch them live 11 Sept – Blondies Bar, London (tickets here) 12 Sept – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (tickets here) 13 Sept … Continue reading New Single From Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Dolls have shared the lead track from their forthcoming EP Pop The Bubble. Set for release in September the EP is four garage-pop anthems with as much sass as they have bite. For now, check out Sugar Free, a riotous example of their infectious grunge-punk inspired by “the use-and-throwaway society around us today, how superficial people’s lives can be, and how rapidly people’s values and what’s on-trend can change”. … Continue reading Dolls – Pop The Bubble EP
New Zealand’s The Beths deliver a perfect blast of indie-pop, occupying a warm, energetic sonic space between joyful hooks, sun-soaked harmonies, and acerbic lyrics. Their debut album Future Me Hates Me, is out now on Carpark Records. Channelling their stew of personal-canon heroes while drawing inspiration from contemporaries like Alvvays and Courtney Barnett, The Beths serve up deeply emotional lyrics packaged within an assortment of roadtrip-ready … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Beths
Untitled (LA) is the second taste from Swearin’s upcoming full length Fall into the Sun, their first for five years. It is another cracking track. Opening on the back of a great riff, the song sets off in a hurry and doesn’t look back – melodic, garage punk at its best. Listen below – pre-order from Bandcamp here. Continue reading Swearin’ – Untitled (LA)
Terry – Oh Helen The Dodos – Forum Colleen Green – Let Go Marissa Nadler – Blue Vapor Art Brut – Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out Tiny Ruins – How Much Dilly Dally – Sober Motel DeVotchKa – Angels Mitski – Two Slow Dancers Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Long standing MM fave Micah P. Hinson will release a new album with the Musicians of the Apocalypse titled, When I Shoot At You With Arrows, I Will Shoot To Destroy You through Full Time Hobby on 26th October. There have been several times in Micah P. Hinson’s life where the idea of an Apocalypse has occurred- a death and rebirth- whether that was a severe back injury, … Continue reading New Album From Micah P. Hinson and the Musicians of the Apocalypse
Having shared David Nance’s cracked, nerve shredding cover of Merle Haggard’s Silver Wings last year, we now have the anthemic Poison, taken from his latest full-length, Peaced and Slightly Pulverized coming out on Chicago’s excellent Trouble in Mind Records on the 5th October. The album is credited to the David Nance Group and features Nance alongside his recent live band of fellow Omaha musicians; guitarist Jim Schroeder, bassist Tom … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The David Nance Group
Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe will release their second full length album on 12th October. The nine track eponymous album was recorded in Anton Newcombe’s Cobra Studios in Berlin last year and was mostly co-written by the duo. Watch the video for Right On, a sultry excursion into psychedelic dream pop… See them live: 8th Dec – Dublin – The Grand Social 9th Dec – … Continue reading New Album From Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe
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