Another crackerjack month of new tunes on MM, all lovingly compiled and packaged up for you in one sweet playlist ready to download. Here are 33 of our favourite tracks from our May postings and 6 new songs too. No need to thank us. Download Virals – Gloria mp3 (from Coming Up With The Sun EP) Shines bright with an insanely hooky vocal and charged guitar riffs, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: May 2012
Fire Records are reissuing the complete works of Rainer Ptacek, the much beloved slide guitarist from Tucson, Arizona, who originated Giant Sand’s sound from the band’s inception, as well as creating many remarkable recordings as a solo artist and with his own band, Das Combo, before succumbing to brain cancer on November 12 1997. The reissues start with The Inner Flame, a compilation of accomplished … Continue reading The Inner Flame: A Tribute To Rainer Ptacek
Following on from yesterday’s post on Hurray For The Riff Raff’s Daytrotter session, the band have now made a second track available from their excellent new release Look Out Mama. The story behind Ode to John And Yoko written by Alynda Lee Segarra is somewhat autobiographical, being inspired by growing up in a Puerto Rican household in the Bronx that never played the Beatles. Despite … Continue reading More From Hurray For The Riff Raff
Whilst The Owsley Brothers were recording Cobalt, their new (very good indeed) album they took on JCM’s Authority Song for fun. It has turned out pretty different from the original and is a free gift from them to you. You can get Cobalt for $5 here. a Continue reading MM Shorts 159: Owsley Brothers Cover Mellancamp
GravelRoad are perhaps best known as T Model Ford’s band but they prove themselves more than capable of going it alone and kicking out a mean set of psychedelic garage blues on new album Psychedelta. Locking into sinewy, swamp inspired grooves and offering up a rough and raw blues groan, the influences range from CCR’s chooglin’ to Howlin’ Wolf’s sly lasciviousness and even ZZ Top’s southern … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…GravelRoad
Strip-Lit Hell is the debut EP from Scotland’s Dog Moon Howl, available on a pay-what-you-want digital deal or CD for £4 via their Bandcamp page here. Their approach is a take-no-prisoners, full on sleazy blues and desert rock – imagine if you will Mark Lanegan duelling with Howling Wolf… Try the fearsome growl and grind of Blues Like A Hammer below. a Continue reading MM Shorts 152: Debut EP From Dog Moon Howl
Hurray, the Riff Raff are back. And it’s all looking quite different. Their brand new album, Look Out Mama, is a whole lot more country and a lot less bluesy/Americana than before. Throw in a sprinkling of good old fashioned rock and roll with her new band the Tumbleweeds, and it’s a coat of many different colours that Alynda Lee Segarra wears on this outing. … Continue reading Album Review: Hurray For The Riff Raff – Look Out Mama
Trawling Bandcamp can from time to time reveal the most extraordinary treasures – more often than not they are free or a nominal ‘pay what you want deal’ and so here are ten of the bands that have been tickling the Mackerel’s fancy recently. First up is uncompromising garage-punk noiseniks The Bats Pajamas who have featured on MM before and have a new EP called … Continue reading Ten Bandcamp Treasures
Cobalt is the debut album by experimental garage-blues trio The Owsley Brothers. We’ve been waiting pretty eagerly for this one following their excellent release Separated At Birth and a solid free download EP titled Pure Lust towards the end of 2011. Take a listen to the single If It Ain’t One Thing and the band’s own favourite track, the high octane riffing of album closer My Man … Continue reading The Owsley Brothers Release Cobalt
Here are a few tasty streams for you to hit the play button on, and a couple to download too. First, some new blissed-out, hypnotic psychedelia from White Fence who have a new three track single out titled Green Balloon via Sexbeat Records in Europe – limited to 500 vinyl copies, and we’ve just pre-ordered one of them… a Next up is the altogether more … Continue reading Streaming Round Up
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