Mad Mackerel Recommends…Screen Door Porch

Residents of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Screen Door Porch’s music evokes open space, dramatic textures, and a genuine character that steeps within your psyche from the first experience. Residing in the country’s least populated state as an Americana / Alt-Country/ Folk band has its own set of demands and challenges but this duo are more than equal to it. Seadar Rose’s vocals are a languid, whiskey-smooth … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Screen Door Porch

Hush Arbors & Arbouretum Split LP For Record Store Day

Thrill Jockey are releasing a split LP by Hush Arbors and Arbouretum on Record Store Day, and we have a track from the Arbouretum side for you to check out and download. In their own ways, each been exploring for years now the intersection of progressive folk and psychedelic rock and so it seems a good fit for a split release. Hush Arbors are all … Continue reading Hush Arbors & Arbouretum Split LP For Record Store Day

More From Orpheum Bell

We recently posted Orpheum Bell’s track Poor Laetitia, describing it as Gypsy Americana or Country & Eastern music. It came from their scheduled new album The Old Sister’s Home, due May 8th and the band have made a new song available for free download. Daddy’s Crying is, as you might expect, a melancholy lament accompanied by suitcase pump organ, shepherd harp, oboe, violin and french horn. Over … Continue reading More From Orpheum Bell

Mad Mackerel Recommends…Chelle Rose

Maverick, outlaw-country legend Ray Wylie Hubbard seems to be turning up a lot here at MM – whether it be our belated discovery of his cover of US national-anthem-in-waiting Choctaw Bingo or his sublime recent Daytrotter session, and now we find his hand in this wonderful record by gut-honest southern singer-songwriter Chelle Rose. He is the producer of Ghost of Browder Holler (out via Lil’ Damsel Records, May 1st) … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Chelle Rose

Thursday Means Six More Of The Best

Been a little while since we’ve rounded up a few of the best tunes that have found their way into our iTunes library recently. So, here is a great way to kick off your Thursday with six tracks gathered from our in-box and our favourite blogs. First up is the brooding psych-rock of Creepoid and a slow burning track from Horse Heaven called Dream Out. … Continue reading Thursday Means Six More Of The Best

MM Shorts 123: Wye Oak’s Daytrotter Session

We’ve mentioned it a few times before, but if you’re not parting with $2 per month to access the daily Daytrotter sessions then more fool you. More fool you because, for example, you’ll have missed out on recent sessions from Boxer Rebellion, Slow Club, Nathaniel Rateliff, Avi Buffalo and Heartless Bastards, and you’ll have missed the excellent Wye Oak session from yesterday, that included this … Continue reading MM Shorts 123: Wye Oak’s Daytrotter Session

Introducing >>> Palomino

Brooklyn’s Palomino have released a five track digital EP of gently swirling and insistently beguiling alt-Country ballads mixed with gritty and powerfully raw Americana. The results are by turn captivating and dissonantly urgent. They also found some old 1955 footage of the 3rd Avenue elevated train in NYC and edited it to one of the standout tracks from the EP. Ghost Story is a song about old … Continue reading Introducing >>> Palomino

Guy Capecelatro III’s Third From North For The Winter

We’ve already posted twice about Guy Capecelatro III, so this marks a hat-trick of posts from his new album North For The Winter. Having given you the sly, mischievous wit of Girlfriends and the sparse, carefully constructed poem-like Like Anything, we have what might just be the best of the lot in his latest single, Switch. It is the tale of a killer who meets a woman … Continue reading Guy Capecelatro III’s Third From North For The Winter

Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday – on Sunday (18th March)

Got myself in a bit of a curry on Friday, a little bit jaded on Saturday, and bit of a day of indulgence today, it being Mothering Sunday and all that. It’s been a funny old week. Big Sair and I laughed our way around Southampton in an attempt to locate Laura Marling. Unfortunately, we managed to miss Timber Timbre in support as I realised … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday – on Sunday (18th March)

Free Insound Vinyl News Mixtape

Insound, providers of a regular free monthly mix that we often feature, have made available an additional free sampler based around some of the releases featured in their vinyl newsletter. The eleven song mix includes tracks from Bear in Heaven, Bishop Morocco, Canyons, Disappears,  Secret Music, THEEsatisfaction and White Hills. Check a couple of our favourites below or just grab the whole thing here for the price of … Continue reading Free Insound Vinyl News Mixtape