We’re a sucker for a good story – especially one from the halcyon days of punk rock. So it is with Bona Rays’ Poser, possibly the UK’s last great undiscovered punk single from the 1970s, and the only UK punk single recorded from that time fronted by a woman of West Indian descent. Back in 1978, punk songwriter and guitarist Tony Keating had a few … Continue reading Bona Rays – Poser
The Bobby Lees are a bone-shaking garage rock band out of Woodstock, NY. Their new record Skin Suit was produced by underground punk legend Jon Spencer of the Blues Explosion and will be released on Alive Naturalsound Records on the 17th July. Mixing classic garage-punk with raw and emotive storytelling, this is their socially distanced video for the raucous Drive. Continue reading The Bobby Lees – Drive
The Growlers have shared a new single, Dream World, which was recorded after sessions for their last album, 2019’s Natural Affair LP. The track imagines an alternate universe available to everyone, if you want it. Upright pianos, razorwire guitars, and singer Brooks Nielsen’s most prescient lyrics to date invite us all to embrace the other side, whatever that might be…. call it danceable garage pop … Continue reading The Growlers – Dream World
Australia’s Peter Bibby is back with his first new music since his 2018 LP Grand Champion, and this time he’s buoyed by the disorderly Dog Act band. The new offering, entitled Oceans, is a ferocious slice of modern garage rock that sounds like it’s cutting through your stereo speakers with a shiv. “Oceans started out as a little sea shanty-esque poem scrawled on a piece … Continue reading New Video: Peter Bibby’s Dog – Oceans
Lockdown has given us an opportunity to get a little more up to date with our posts and to catch up, a little, with some of the many, many tunes that come our way. Given it is Friday and a Bank Holiday here in the UK, we’ve rounded up a few tunes that we would have liked to have given a bit more time and … Continue reading Something For The Weekend…
Squid have released a new lyric video for their propulsive and experimental recent single Sludge, it is composed from fans’ footage of their isolation experiences. Working with visual artist Ali Amiri (who first uploaded a clip of isolation from Tehran) and Warp, Squid asked fans to submit a 360º video of wherever they were locked down to make a music video. Following cancelled shows and plans due … Continue reading New Video: Squid – Sludge
We have been eagerly waiting for Protomartyr’s fifth studio album Ultimate Success Today, but due to the pandemic, it has been put back from its original release date at the end of this month to the 17th July. They have also cancelled all their planned live shows. So to console ourselves we at least have a second track from the record to enjoy. Worm In … Continue reading Protomartyr – Worm In Heaven
Permanent Collection is the moniker Jason Hendardy has made music under since 2010. Having grown into a full band and released Newly Wed Nearly Dead back in 2012 and then EP No Void the following year, Permanent Collection went on hiatus from 2014 until now. Happily, new album Nothing Good Is Normal will get a release on June 19th and we have a couple of fuzzed-up, reverb … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Permanent Collection
LA duo Gum Country’s self-described “harsh twee” project began back in Vancouver as a series of lo-fi four track recordings made in an apartment, very quietly. After relocating, the pair recorded their debut full-length album Somewhere, which draws on influences from Sterelolab and The Replacements to The Magnetic Fields and Yo La Tengo. The record is out on the 19th June and the second single from … Continue reading Gum Country – Tennis (I Feel OK)
Hot on the heels of news of a new release from Fontaines D.C. comes this from our other favourite Dublin band, The Murder Capital. Their new Live From BBC Maida Vale EP, features their full March live session for Annie Mac at Radio 1, one of the last put down to tape at Maida Vale before the pandemic. Leading with the band’s spectral cover of … Continue reading The Murder Capital Release Live From BBC Maida Vale EP
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