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Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2012

Here is our cherry picked selection of our favourite downloads from March for you, together with a few new tracks to create a perfect end-of-month mix. Enjoy. Download Thee Exciters – Dinosaur Traffic mp3 (from Perpetual Happening) Psychedelia meets proto-punk Download The Lonesome Savages – All Outta Love mp3 (from All Outta Love 7″) 50s inflected rock’n’roll revamped and updated with elements of the current garage punk sound – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2012

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MM Shorts 122: Jack Hayter’s Singles Series

Former Hefner man Jack Hayter’s new single The Shackleton is the first part of his new year long singles series The Sisters of St. Anthony. It is as unique, as odd, and as savagely sarcastic as you could possibly hope for. It effortlessly and sublimely blurs the lines between his traditional folk influences and creaking fuzz, biting wit, indie-pop rhythms and lo-tech experimental fuzzery. Have a listen, or purchase below. … Continue reading MM Shorts 122: Jack Hayter’s Singles Series

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Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday – on Sunday (18th March)

Got myself in a bit of a curry on Friday, a little bit jaded on Saturday, and bit of a day of indulgence today, it being Mothering Sunday and all that. It’s been a funny old week. Big Sair and I laughed our way around Southampton in an attempt to locate Laura Marling. Unfortunately, we managed to miss Timber Timbre in support as I realised … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday – on Sunday (18th March)

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Josh & Mer Unleash The Freaks…

Josh & Mer (aka Josh Schroeder & Meredith Adelaide) featured in a couple of the End-of Year Top Tens we posted back in December and so we are pleased to be able to offer you up a new tune and video from them. This is Mind Control, which has an altogether more unsettling and eerie vibe to it than we’ve previously been used to and the … Continue reading Josh & Mer Unleash The Freaks…

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…Thomas White

Seeing Brakes play to an ecstatic crowd at the End of the Road Festival was a highlight of our first visit there and so my interest was piqued when an email arrived with details of the new solo album from Thomas White for it is he who has played with aforesaid Brakes as well as Electric Soft Parade and one of Barry-Sean’s favourites, British Sea … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Thomas White

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Another From Mirel Wagner

It seems a happy coincidence that having just eulogised about our discovery of Finnish lo-fi Americana artist Einar Lind, posted earlier today with copious references to dark Finnish chantreuse Mirel Wagner that she in turn should make another track available from her own remarkable self-titled debut album. Here then is The Road, another cheery tale of death, sparsely plucked and whispered and coming across like a … Continue reading Another From Mirel Wagner

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Introducing >>> Einar Lind

About a month ago we waxed lyrical about the remarkable debut album from melancholic Finnish songstress Mirel Wagner. Now we are delighted to be able to introduce another stunning Finnish discovery for you in the shape of Einar Lind. His album Introducing Einar Lind! was recorded entirely in his bedroom in Helsinki and apparently was released in February (though we cannot find it on sale anywhere … Continue reading Introducing >>> Einar Lind

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MM Shorts 111: Insound’s Free March Mix

Following on from our free SxSW sampler from American Songwriter earlier this week, we now have the latest in Insound’s free digital mixes. Their March offering has 13 tracks and includes Mind Spiders, Beach Fossils, Nite Jewel, Wild Nothing and Holograms amongst others. As an hors d’oeuvres we have two nice tasters from the mixtape below, or just head over here to get the whole … Continue reading MM Shorts 111: Insound’s Free March Mix

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New Singles Round Up

Here are a few of the new singles that have come our way recently that are well worth a listen. The Diamond Center are purveyors of very fine lush, shimmering neo-psychedelia. A new 7″, California / Bells will be out on the 13th March and you can listen to the woozy, pulsating goodness of the title track here. http://official.fm/tracks/350063 Next up, and while a touch … Continue reading New Singles Round Up

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…Justin Farren

Like the wonderful Benjamin Shaw here in the UK, observational singer-songwriter Justin Farren has a world view that is as skewed as it is idiosyncratic as it is unassuming. However, being from across the pond, his is a view coloured by his Californian upbringing and consequently we get 70 second songs about awkward palm trees growing out of concrete, glue guns and anxieties over asphalt burns from sex … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Justin Farren

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