Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog will release their new album entitled B-Room on October 1st via Anti- Records (pre-order here). The first taste is the gorgeously soulful and melancholic album opener The Truth – watch and listen below. . Continue reading First Taste Of The Truth From New Dr. Dog Album
Doc Feldman & The LD50 officially released Sundowning At The Station a few days ago via This Is American Music. It was recorded in Lexington, KY with help from friend and sometimes collaborator (and oft-celebrated MM fave), James Jackson Toth aka Wooden Wand. The album is the singer-songwriter’s first since the breakup of his last band Good Saints. After a few listens we are willing to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Doc Feldman & The LD50
Israel Nash Gripka is a new name to us, but when we discovered he was the newest signing to our favourite UK label Loose Music (joining the Felice Brothers, Jim White, Handsome Family, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Frontier Ruckus, Hurray For The Riff Raff and more) then we knew it would be well worth a listen. We were right. The gorgeous Woman At The Well is taken from his forthcoming … Continue reading New Album From Israel Nash Gripka
Enjoy some fine videos from long standing MM favourites Sea Wolf and Lightning Dust as well as fiery Argentinian trio Las Kellies and their film for Golden Love and lastly some lovely acoustic folk from Longfellow. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Sea Wolf || Lightning Dust || Las Kellies || Longfellow
Dim Peaks is a California-based band, their new album Time of Joy was recorded in semi-sporadic sessions over the course of a year. It is a sweetly melodic blend of Americana that is effortlessly evocative: trails worn deep by quiet guitars, whispers in the ear at dusk, beers on summer waters, the anticipation of new beginnings, light and heavy moments in an expanse of sun … Continue reading Introducing >>> Dim Peaks
Two years since the release of Big Green, the debut LP from Portland indie-Americana band Quiet Life, the band has announced their new record, Wild Pack, is slated for an October 29 release via Mama Bird Recording Co. Wild Pack finds Quiet Life expanding on the easy-going folk rock of Big Green into darker and grittier territory. Listen / download the propulsive, galloping Devil’s Kin … Continue reading New Album From Quiet Life
The Mother Hips’ eighth studio album, Behind Beyond, is out on the band’s own Mother Hips Records imprint. The album marks 20 years since their first release for Rick Rubin’s American Recordings. The band have premiered a free album track, Song for JB, written for the late Jay Bennett of Wilco, via Rolling Stone. It is a touching, affecting track and shows they’ve lost none … Continue reading MM Shorts 410: The Mother Hips
Videos today come from fuzz rockers Lightouts, the messy garage rock of Dads, the adrenalin fuelled, Stooges inspired rock of The Dirty Rivers and the electrifying Americana of New Country Rehab. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Lightouts || Dads || The Dirty Rivers || New Country Rehab
The O’s are a duo from Dallas who between them manage to kick out a hearty stew of foot-stompin’ folk, bluegrass, country rock and bar-room Americana that is likely to find favour with those who have Gram Parsons and Avett Brothers records in their collections. Latest album, their third, is titled Thunderdog and sees a release on the 23rd July following a successful Kickstarter campaign. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The O’s
On their fourth full-length, Nashville, Tennessee-based rock band The Lonely H deliver a ten-track, self-titled full-length, complete with guest appearances by The Rolling Stones’ saxophonist Bobby Keys, longtime MM fave Caitlin Rose, and others. It sits somewhere between the modern day Americana of Deer Tick and Dawes, the classic country rock of Tom Petty and the blue collar grit of Bruce Springsteen. Thankfully it is more than a … Continue reading New Album From The Lonely H
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