Category: Americana

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

Check Out The Make Good Choices Free Digital Compilation

D.B. Rouse who we have featured a couple of times on MM dropped us a line to tell us about Make Good Choices, a free digital compilation that features 15 different bands and musicians from across the US, the majority of whom were found in the Austin, TX area. Of course it includes Mr Rouse himself, which should tell you something about the quality contained therein. Other artists … Continue reading Check Out The Make Good Choices Free Digital Compilation

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Acoustic, Americana, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Insound’s April Free Mix

A new month, a new free digital mix from Insound available for a tweet, e-mail or Facebook Like. This month features seventeen quality tracks from, amongst others, Beach House, Crocodiles, DZ Deathrays, Eternal Summers, John Maus, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, Races, and Zambri. Click here to get the whole thing, but be quick as it is only available for a week or so, … Continue reading Insound’s April Free Mix

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Americana, Country, Folk, Music, Rock, Soul

Mad Mackerel Recommends…Al Scorch & The Country Soul Ensemble

In his new full-length CD release, Tired Ghostly Town (out May 21 on Plan-It-X South), Chicago-based songwriter and instrumentalist Al Scorch and his backing band, the Country Soul Ensemble craft literate, character-driven songs with Mid-American roots and a post-punk DIY attitude. The protagonist wishing for a pair of gold cuff links to accompany his beau to her daddy’s funeral; the deserting Civil War soldier headed across destroyed cotton fields beckoning to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Al Scorch & The Country Soul Ensemble

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Deer Tick’s Divine Providence Gets UK Release

One of our very favourite UK labels, Loose Music is releasing Deer Tick’s outstanding fourth album Divine Providence in the UK. If you read our Albums of the Year post at the end of 2011, you’ll know just how much we loved this rollicking, swaggering, raw, boozy record. It is out in the UK today. Buy it together with the bonus five track Tim EP from … Continue reading Deer Tick’s Divine Providence Gets UK Release

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Blues, Country, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Gothic, Indie, Metal, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock, Rock & Roll

Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2012

Here is our cherry picked selection of our favourite downloads from March for you, together with a few new tracks to create a perfect end-of-month mix. Enjoy. Download Thee Exciters – Dinosaur Traffic mp3 (from Perpetual Happening) Psychedelia meets proto-punk Download The Lonesome Savages – All Outta Love mp3 (from All Outta Love 7″) 50s inflected rock’n’roll revamped and updated with elements of the current garage punk sound – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2012

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

MM Shorts 130: Insound’s March Vinyl News Mixtape

Insound have made another of their free Vinyl News mixtape’s available – the March edition features eleven tracks from Denison Witmer, Food Pyramid, Glow Kit, Japandroids, Jennifer Castle, Julia Holter, The Larchmont Trash and more. You can grab a couple of our own favourites from the selection below or just head here and swap a tweet, Facebook like or e-mail address to get the whole thing for … Continue reading MM Shorts 130: Insound’s March Vinyl News Mixtape

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Americana, Country, Music, Punk, Rock

Waco Brothers & Paul Burch To Release Great Chicago Fire

Through eight albums on Bloodshot, the Waco Brothers have blurred the line between country and punk with music brimming with grim romanticism, and joyous, near ecstatic, drunken stomps. Paul Burch is a Nashville songwriting treasure. It turns out that the rawness and rowdiness of the former, so at home in the blue collar and punk rock dives of Chicago, shares an emotional camaraderie with the traditionally minded … Continue reading Waco Brothers & Paul Burch To Release Great Chicago Fire

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New Album From Johnny Bertram & The Golden Bicycles

A Boise, Idaho transplant, Johnny Bertram sonically channels the influences of the Pacific Northwest’s musical forebears (think Pedro the Lion, The Decemberists, Built to Spill) in his acoustic-based songwriting. His songs are steeped in indie-rock and Americana and filtered through a Deep South lens that generates an interesting perspective and sound. Bertram’s sophomore effort sees the Portland songwriter and his backing band, the Golden Bicycles, … Continue reading New Album From Johnny Bertram & The Golden Bicycles

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Alternative, Ambient, Americana, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

New Releases Round Up

Here are some ‘hot outta the in-box‘ new releases that are well worth exploring. First up is a new track from the Forty Nineteens forthcoming debut No Expiration Date. Truckers Song is another slice of garage inflected pop-punk that sounds as though it were forged in the underground scene of late 80s Los Angeles. Download The Forty Nineteens – Truckers Song mp3 (from No Expiration … Continue reading New Releases Round Up

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Americana, Folk, Gothic, Indie, Music, Rock

MM Shorts 127: More From Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands

Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands release Muses & Bones nationally in the US today. Having already offered us the crazed Eastern European burlesque show vibe of Especially Your Mother, we now have the frantic gypsy gallop of Drowned Out and the haunting, soaring melodrama of The Misplaced Zygote. Buy from Bandcamp here. Download Download Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands – The Misplaced Zygote mp3 (from Muses & … Continue reading MM Shorts 127: More From Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands

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