Metaphorically speaking we have a huge red ring round March 5 on our calendar because that is when the new Cave Singers album Naomi gets a release. They have made a second track from it available for your listening pleasure and Easy Way certainly more than meets our (high) expectations as it drives along on the back of another trademark riff from Derek Fudesco and even … Continue reading Easy Way From The Cave Singers
Between Hurricanes is Stephen Fearing’s first solo album in seven years. The follow-up to 2006’s acclaimed Yellowjacket, the album is available today via Lowden Proud Records Ltd. Born out of several life-changing events, the album is both the document and result of many significant changes for Fearing including divorce, a change of record label and an amicable parting of the ways with his manager – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Stephen Fearing
Laurelin Kruse is a girl from Colorado stuck in Brooklyn and this song is about how she’s always trying to get the hell home. She says “It’s like a meteorite crashing into a Spaghetti Western. Plus, ya know, folk music.” Sounds about right to us, as does the song. Good stuff. It is called Jupiter, listen to it. Download it. Continue reading Introducing >>> Laurelin Kruse
So, all things considered January got off to a rip-roaring start where new tunes are concerned. Here is our selection of our best of the month’s downloads (27 in all) and a few new tunes too – more than 30 to pick from, so blow those January blues away with these babies. Prissy Clerks – Bruise or Be Bruised Mix of fuzzed up punk and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2013
Scowlin Owl are an all-female folk band, low on twee but big on drama and vocal harmonies. Their debut single, called Mifune is a driving, atmospheric song about the relationship between Japan’s most famous actor Toshiro Mifune and legendary film director Akira Kurosawa. Released yesterday, Scowlin Owl are influenced by storytellers from the classic (Dylan, Baez) to the contemporary (Decemberists, Midlake). Any story or concept which inspires may … Continue reading Introducing >>> Scowlin Owl
Portland, Oregon’s Rare Monk have a sound that is both familiar and distinctly their own. With a slew of brand new tracks, Sleep/Attack is their first long player (out 26th February) and a follow up to their excellent Death by Proxy EP (see our original post here). It’s an upbeat and ambitious album that takes inspiration from such diverse concepts as the enormity of the universe to … Continue reading Debut Album From Rare Monk
Watch epic psych-folk rockers Arbouretum with their new video for Coming Out Of The Fog as well as Edmund Wayne and his simple acoustic video for the brilliant track To The Bugs On My Ceiling, which we have just discovered (and is on repeat here). We also have the haunting Song For Motion from Australia’s up and coming Lowlands and finally Dead Wolf Club’s video for … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Arbouretum || Edmund Wayne || Lowlands || Dead Wolf Club
Creating a sound without direct lineage, Luke Elliot’s sound is lived in and familiar, like an old friend. Alongside his band, the group brings every song to life onstage with their stunning, Jerry Lee Lewis-esque-piano-wrecking experience. Just releasing their newest single, Benny’s a Bum, from the independent film of the same name which won Best Local Film at the Philadelphia Film Festival, the track is … Continue reading Introducing >>> Luke Elliot
Jody Nelson had a busy 2012 with a fantastic EP release from Through the Sparks, production duties on Some Dark Holler’s Hollow Chest, performing on Wooden Wand’s Blood Oaths of the New Blues, and touring and working diligently throughout the year on his own Dorado project. And it is this project that has seriously got our attention – the album Anger, Hunger, Love and the Fear of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Dorado
Here is a trailer for Dawes upcoming new album Stories Don’t End. It previews two brand new songs, including the single From A Window Seat. The album is released on the 9th April. a Continue reading Dawes New Album Trailer
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