KAIROS combines the vintage beach rock sound made famous in the southern West Coast with the rainy day melancholy championed by Seattle’s infamous gray skies. Their eponymous six song debut EP on Fin Records carves out a lasting impression with gorgeous, heart-wrenching lyrics and melodies that move and build like the best and worst of relationships. Have a listen to a couple of tracks…buy from Bandcamp … Continue reading Introducing >>> KAIROS
On our last visit to SxSW in 2013, the laid back, vintage jangle and classic pastoral psychedelia of the Allah-Las was a real treat to catch live and made us big fans in an instant. So from our perspective a new album (September) and a new single (August) are great news. The former will be titled Worship The Sun and the latter is the first track to … Continue reading The Allah-Las To Release 501-415
Utterly bonkers, utterly brilliant. Animation depicting the life and repetitive routine of an office drone for all those of us who grew up on Trumpton and Camberwick Green… . Continue reading Video: Lucky Elephant – The British Working Man
Avers, the Richmond indie rock quintet that includes members of The Head and the Heart, Hypercolor, The Mason Brothers, and Farm Vegas, is heading out on a summer tour in support of their recently released debut album Empty Light. Having given the record a couple of spins, we think these are shows you might want to add to your must-see list. A fabulous mix of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Avers
Heyrocco are a South Carolina-bred trio known for dark, nostalgic pop tunes. Reminiscent of bands such as The Cure, Nada Surf, and Mudhoney spiked with an experimental blend of Broken Social Scene meets On A Friday, check out debut single Virgin below. . Continue reading Introducing >>> Heyrocco
Watch the video for Purple’s riotous single Wallflower – a joyously uplifting song that flips the usual script and sees a girl ardently – some might say aggressively – pursuing an admirer through the upended bottles, overflowing ashtrays and tangled limbs of a party: “I’m a girl – you’re supposed to be chasing me!” . Continue reading Video: Purple – Wallflower
Toronto’s Mexican Slang will release their official debut EP Inside The Velvet Castle on July 15th via Buzz Records. A thrilling blast of psych rock and garage punk, that recalls the best of Fugazi to vintage Cramps, it is all twisted together within infectious melodies that are equal parts rough and deceivingly sweet. Lead by Annabelle Lee, the EP is a reflection of her time committed to a psychiatric … Continue reading Mexican Slang – Blisters
Last year’s single I Collapse by Eula found much favour here at MM, grabbing a place in our favourite tracks of the year, and on first listen, latest 7″ release Orderly is destined to do the same. It is a brilliantly discordant cacophony of angular, clashing rhythms, viscerally wailed vocals and industrial, skull numbing percussion. Have a listen. Out on Bloodmoss Records on the 15th July … Continue reading New Single From Eula
We have hitherto managed to remain fairly impervious to the charms of Bear In Heaven, but Time Between, the first taste from forthcoming new album Time Is Over One Day Old is set to change all that. It kicks off innocently enough, then after ten seconds veers into a soundtrack from a forgotten 70s horror flick, then morphs by way of classic Secret Machines into something that … Continue reading MM Shorts 576: Bear In Heaven
Here is another slab of gritty blues stomp from Ontario’s Kings Of Lowertown. Blues Haul is the flipside to their brilliant Mississippi Flood track (posted here), which will be pressed on vinyl later in 2014 as a double A side release. Stream it here. . Continue reading Kings Of Lowertown – Blues Haul
