Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Garage, Music, Pop, Rock

Videos of the Day: Miraculous Mule || Less Love & Wondernaut || The Cabin Project || Brandy Zdan

Videos for Sunday morning come with some Dangerous Blues from Miraculous Mule, and from a excellent collaboration by Less Love and Wondernaut we have the video for their track Like Shaking Hands. We also have orchestral indie pop from The Cabin Project and some classic Americana from Brandy Zdan who used to be one half of the the brilliant and sadly defunct Twilight Hotel and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Miraculous Mule || Less Love & Wondernaut || The Cabin Project || Brandy Zdan

madmackerelOctober 27, 2013October 27, 20131 Comment

Alternative, Ambient, Americana, Indie, Music, Rock

MM Shorts 464: Lo Fine

The slow core Americana of Lo Fine’s latest album Want Is A Great Need has slowly grown on us, infiltrating, seducing, overcoming any resistance with its dark melancholy and occasional sonically malevolent world view. Grab All We Need Is Hell below. You can get previous track Lie In White from our Round Up post here. Continue reading MM Shorts 464: Lo Fine

madmackerelOctober 26, 2013October 25, 2013Leave a comment

Americana, Folk, Indie, Music

Mad Mackerel Recommends…Holyoak

Montreal-based musician Neil Holyoak has released three albums under the name Holyoak. His latest release is an EP titled Silver Boys, out on the 5th November. It precedes a new full length Rags Across The Sun, due early 2014. The title track is a gently hallucinatory lullaby of equal parts indie folk and lyrical poetry. Listen/download below. Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Holyoak

madmackerelOctober 25, 2013Leave a comment

Alternative, Americana, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Videos of the Day: Beach Fossils || Such Hounds || Dark Bells || The Head And The Heart

Top notch videos to round off, and round up, the working week from Beach Fossils (trippy lo-fi), Such Hounds (ramshackle, punky Americana), Dark Bells (ethereal psychedelia), and The Head And The Heart (indie folk). . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Beach Fossils || Such Hounds || Dark Bells || The Head And The Heart

madmackerelOctober 25, 2013Leave a comment

Acoustic, Americana, Folk, Indie, Music

Elliott Smith

Ten years ago today Elliott Smith died. For years I resisted listening to his music. I mean properly listening, and it was only this year that I decided to stop being so foolishly stubborn and try again. Even then it took Mrs M to put me straight and make me persist. I’m glad I did. Continue reading Elliott Smith

madmackerelOctober 21, 2013October 21, 20131 Comment

Alternative, Americana, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Punk, Rock

Videos of the Day: Upset || Teitur || As Elephants Are || New Regulars

Brighten the start of the working week by watching these excellent videos from Upset, from singer – songwriter Teitur, from As Elephants Are with the nagging melody and barbed wire rhythm of new single Crystal, and some excellent fuzzy garage rock from Aussie band New Regulars. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Upset || Teitur || As Elephants Are || New Regulars

madmackerelOctober 21, 2013Leave a comment

Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Garage, Gothic, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock, Rockabilly, Soul

Rounding Them Up Again

Time to round up a few more of the releases that have tickled our ears from the inbox and round the web. Ali Koehler has hitherto been best known as the drummer of the pop group Best Coast and the noisy girl punk trio Vivian Girls. After her departure from Best Coast, Koehler decided to step up from behind the kit to front a band … Continue reading Rounding Them Up Again

madmackerelOctober 20, 2013Leave a comment

Acoustic, Americana, Folk, Music

Mad Mackerel Recommends… The River Has Many Voices

The River Has Many Voices is the adopted moniker of singer-songwriter Matthew Payne who has a number of digital releases available for pay-what-you-want deals on his Bandcamp page. We came across him via a few serendipitous clicks around the web, and our introduction came in the form of the video for the stunning If You Gotta Go (Go With Me). It was one of those … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The River Has Many Voices

madmackerelOctober 18, 2013October 18, 20131 Comment

Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

Videos of the Day: Scott Low || Cross Record || East India Youth || Dead Wolf Club

Videos today come from Efren frontman Scott Low and a first taste from new solo record The Stories I Shouldn’t Tell in the form of Cactusgrass – a swirling and disorientating video perfectly suits the darkness and moodiness of the song. We also have the hypnotic and enchanting Cross Record’s appropriately haunting and off-kilter video for her brilliant track Maybe I’m Crazy. East India Youth’s striking … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Scott Low || Cross Record || East India Youth || Dead Wolf Club

madmackerelOctober 18, 2013October 18, 2013Leave a comment

Alternative, Americana, Folk, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

MM’s 5:1 Interview No 14: Coke Weed

Somehow we missed the release of Back To Soft this summer, the third long player from Bar Harbor’s Coke Weed. It follows the release of two outstanding albums in Nice Dreams and Volume One. But, if anything, this one is even better – a woozy, narcoleptic trip through the realms of psychedelia, indie rock and hazy Americana. Reference points range from classic Velvets style underground to … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 14: Coke Weed

madmackerelOctober 16, 2013Leave a comment