Time for a quick and dirty round-up from our unkempt and overflowing in-box, looking back over the past month or so. We have fuzzy art-rock from Sego who mix together warped psych rock and indie pop to create bleak pop songs that soar into big hooks and brilliant melodic noise. Opting for a slower tempo on Cigarette Kids, their most recent single is less skronk and more … Continue reading Round Up Time
Nashville label and small press, Cosmic Thug Records, will release a digital split single from Emma Swift and Pony Boy next week featuring two reinterpretations of classic Neil Young songs. Emma Swift performs a wonderfully poignant Mellow My Mind and Pony Boy (Marchelle Bradanini) who we once featured on MM way back in 2012, offers up a slow-as-molasses, haunting take on Like A Hurricane. Both are great versions and well worth a listen. … Continue reading Split Single From Pony Boy & Emma Swift – Covering Neil Young
Fontaines DC are undoubtedly our favourite discovery of 2018 so far. Taking the best bits of the bands like The Stooges, The Fall, Girl Band and Idles, we’ve already shared the outstanding Chequeless Reckless, and the other side to that single, Boys In The Better Land is another absolute crackerjack of a tune. If you’re a rock star, porn star, superstar, Doesn’t matter what you are Get … Continue reading Fontaines DC – Boys In The Better Land
Screaming Females – I’ll Make You Sorry Car Seat Headrest – Fallen Horses (Smash Mouth cover) Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo Wavves & Culture Abuse – Big Cloud Mount Eerie – Tintin In Tibet Speedy Ortiz – Lucky 88 Wye Oak – It Was Not Natural Rixe – La Cle Melvins – Stop Moving To Florida Table Scraps – Lyin’ Thru Yer Teeth Father John Misty … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Ah, how we’ve missed the marvellous Parquet Courts… They’re back with a new album, Wide Awake!, and a track of two halves, Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience. The first typically frenetic and jerky, the second half a classic Courts’ indie-punk anthem. Watch the lyric video below. Continue reading Parquet Courts Are Back
March 16th will see the release of San Diego based Hot Snakes’ Jericho Sirens, the band’s fourth album, and their first in 14 long years. It will be out on Sub Pop Records. We’ve already shared Six Wave Hold Down and now we have the equally good second offering from the new record, entitled, Death Camp Fantasy, it is another doozy of snarling garage punk. Stream it here. Continue reading Hot Snakes – Death Camp Fantasy
Hull’s Black Delta Movement are a raucous psych-rock band that trip over into garage and punk, and who will release their debut album Preservation on the 30th March. First taste comes with the propulsive, throbbing King Mosquito – two and a half minutes of MC5 and Sonics inspired goodness, that we’re loving here at MM. Stream it below, loudly. Black Delta Movement Continue reading MM Shorts 999: The Black Delta Movement
The Men are sharing the final single from their upcoming LP, Drift before its release on March 2. Killed Someone harks back to the Leave Home or Open Your Heart era of the band with a breakneck pace and the huge fuzzed-out riffs that put that band on the map to begin with. Really looking forward to this album… Continue reading The Men – Killed Someone
Colorado based Gasoline Lollipops released their latest long player Soul Mine at the very back end of last year. It means we’re a bit late sharing, but seeing as the band effortlessly manage to meld the sincerity of dirt-floor folk with the energy and rebelliousness of punk we figured you wouldn’t hold it against us. It’s an all-new incarnation of alt-country that’s both high-energy and heartfelt, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Gasoline Lollipops
Dr Dog – Go Out Fighting Simone Felice – The Projector Vintage Crop – Gerald Part 2 Drinks – Real Outside The Low Anthem – Give My Body Back Bonny Doon – A Lotta Things Dan Michaelson – Sand Beach House – Lemon Glow Swampmeat Family Band – Needle & Thread Eleanor Friedberger – In Between Stars Holly Miranda – To Be Loved … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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