It is funny how things turn out sometimes. Four months ago, Austin Texas duo Twilight Hotel were turning up in various MM End-of-Year-Best-Of Lists following the release of their superb album When The Wolves Go Blind. On Saturday they turned up at the fag-end of their UK tour just a few miles from chez Mackerel playing a free show at the rather lovely, and certainly … Continue reading Twilight Hotel – Live Review
Restavrant play a unique mix of maniacal junkyard blues, hillbilly stomp, and electro-punk, but expertly make the sum of these parts into one glorious cacophony of pent-up fury. Whilst their second album Yeah, I Carve Cheetahs was released at the beginning of the year we have only just come across a few tracks from it. This Victoria, Texas bred, Los Angeles based duo delivers a diverse cannon … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Restavrant
We first mentioned the scuzzy country rock and bar-room boogie of Aussies Black Creek back in November when we posted a track from their album Ragged Shark. They are back with a new digital single titled Not For The Faint Of Heart backed with Gone Is The Darkness and it is another muscular example of their ragged, raw take on Americana, a sound they describe as … Continue reading New From Black Creek
The curiously named HOboken Division are a French delta-blues/garage duo that recently released their self-titled debut EP via Bandcamp. Their description of their music as ‘the wedding of blues and rock in the sludge’ gives fair warning of what to expect. This is sleazy, rapacious stuff evoking the long dead spirits of the bluesmen and of greasy, out-for-kicks rock ‘n’ rollers. But that’s not all … Continue reading Introducing >>> HOboken Division
Bringing together the dirty British blues of Duke Garwood and Wooden Wand’s Kentucky-laced country rock, Fire Records are releasing a special split 12″ for Record Store Day. As anyone who has read MM for any length of time will know, we are huge fans of Mr Wand, a genius songwriter and thoroughbred storyteller and we have featured the sparse, spooked our blues of Duke Garwood … Continue reading Wooden Wand & Duke Garwood Record Store Day Exclusive
Authentic, Delta-blues maverick Brother Dege is currently spending his time recording songs for his new album How To Kill A Horse in an empty warehouse, working in a homeless shelter, and disappearing for days into the backwoods of his native Louisiana. All par for the course for the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed full-length album Folk Songs of the American Longhair, which was voted one of the top blues and … Continue reading The Return Of Brother Dege
Young Hines and Readymade Records are gearing up for the April 10th release of his new album Give Me My Change with a free download of the confrontational and trigger-happy punkish blues of Can’t Explode. Download Young Hines – Can’t Explode mp3 (from Give Me My Change)a Continue reading MM Shorts 133: Young Hines
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
Lordy, really should have given up gallivanting for Lent, home and away. TFI Friday is turning into Mrs Mackerel’s shifty Sunday. It was an away fixture in the Big Smoke on Friday: sober affair, late night, loads of gabbing, followed by an early evening kick off at home on Saturday – think less Stadium of Light more Den of Iniquity, led by the High Priestess … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday – on Sunday again (25th March)
The Graceful Slicks are Oxford’s very own psych-rock warriors pumping out swirling, stoned, krautrock inspired grooves with a tasty side order of blues inflected garage and shoegaze. They have made a few demo EPs available via their Bandcamp pages and the latest (Demo 4) has three excellent tracks to sample. So seeing as it is Friday, why not turn down the lights, stick on the … Continue reading Freak Out With The Graceful Slicks
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