Back in July we shared Acid Books by Greek post-punks Callas taken from their collaboration, Trouble and Desire, with Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, which has remained one of our favourite songs of the year ever since. Now we have Mirroir for you and the album’s title track. Both are equally good – taut, pulsating, menacing and with a driving psych groove that is marking this album … Continue reading More From Callas with Lee Ranaldo
Brooklyn rockers Darkwing will shortly release their new EP Super Silver. The first single Necropants is a needling slab of distorted garage-punk that is well worth a spin. Stream it here. Continue reading Darkwing – Necropants
Titus Andronicus – Only A Hobo BRONCHO – Keep It In Line Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie No. 2 Courtney Barnett – Small Talk Kurt Vile – One Trick Ponies Flat Worms – The Apparition Death Valley Girls – (One Less Thing) Before I Die The Berries – Junkyard Dog Laura Gibson – Domestication SOAK – Everybody Loves You New Rose – Plenty Of Flowers … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Marc Ribot/Ceramic Dog are expressing their opposition to the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court with a Music Video , entitled Beer. Ribot says, “We like beer too. But we sure hate sexual assault, and super privileged machos who think they can get away with anything, and congresspeople who enable them. If this means we’re going to “reap the whirlwind: let’s make the … Continue reading Ceramic Dog – Beer
A new discovery for us, Ad Nauseam is the third album proper from the Lincolnshire four piece Sick Bookies. A true DIY effort, it was recorded and compiled over the last year in studios, bedrooms and living rooms. Comprising of eleven pieces of music, the album explores the bewilderment of our times through twisting words, stalling arrangements and songs that are close to dismantling. The influences … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Sick Bookies
Despite hailing from down under, the debut self-titled album from Adelaide based six-piece The Dunes is mined from the same sonic territory that hosts the Black Angels, Warlocks and Wooden Shjips, thick with reverb, fuzz and deliciously dark undertones. Listen to the excellent space rock of (Just Because You’re Not Being Followed Doesn’t Mean You’re Not) Paranoid, and the pummelling, hypnotic Mountain. You can order the album … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Dunes
Colorado fuzz-rockers The Velveteers create raw and aggressive grunge with blues-rock roots, and will be arriving in the UK this month for a tour spanning the entire country. In celebration they’ve released their brand new video for EP highlight Anastasia Sings, a horror-fuelled theatrical nightmare-scape that serves as a perfect visual accompaniment to their psychedelic leanings. Watch / stream it below and check out the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Velveteers
Joe Strummer – Czechoslovak Song / Where Is England The Men – Ailment Anna St. Louis – Desert Hater – Things To Keep Up With PAINT – Daily Gazette Methyl Ethel – Scream Whole Jeff Tweedy – Some Birds Death Valley Girls – Street Justice Kevin Devine – Into The Great Wide Open (Tom Petty cover) Continue reading NIne Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Australian outfit Tropical Fuck Storm, featuring a couple of members from The Drones have shared the video for The Future of History, taken from their upcoming Joyful Noise Recordings’ debut, A Laughing Death in Meatspace. Mixing art-rock, deconstructed punk skronk, and a kitchen sink full of ideas, wit and acerbic observation, the album is a great listen. Watch the Gary Kasparov inspired video below and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Tropical Fuck Storm
Loving this track from the upcoming album Warheads by Adam Stone & Dead Sea Apes The record is a full-length collaboration between the writer/artist and the Manchester instrumentalists. It takes classic British pessimism and speculative dystopian fiction and entwines it with morbid social commentary and a long piss-streak of bleak humour. They go on to describe the record as “Standing their ground in a dirty jumbled … Continue reading Adam Stone & Dead Sea Apes – (You Are) Doing What You Want (All Of The Time)
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