Download Natural Child – Yer Birthday mp3 (from 1971) Download The Middle East – Jesus Came To My Birthday Party mp3 (from I Want That You Are Always Happy) Download Joshua James – Black July mp3 (from Build Me This) Download Small Houses – Late July mp3 (from Mixtape #1) Continue reading Happy Birthday Barry-Sean
Dex Romweber is a bonafide icon of the American music underground. Pioneering the template for the stripped to-the-essentials guitar/drums duo format in the psycho-surf-rockabilly-garage-punk combo Flat Duo Jets — Dex continues his resurgence with the new album Is That You In The Blue? With sister Sara on drums, the Dex Romweber Duo is a potent combo that’ll get your leg twitching with the beat and your … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Dex Romweber Duo
The fair has come to Charlbury; had it been the circus, I could have run away to be… the miserable front end of the pantomime cow. Oh well, another day, maybe. Perhaps next week will be filled with fewer disappointments. Two more temporary interns into the MM menagerie arrived this week in the form of George and Teri, two warring terrapins. It turns out that … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (8th July)
Here is our regular Best of the month mix – more than twenty tracks of all shapes and sizes to get your ears into, plus a few new ones that we think you’ll love! So we’re off and running with… Download The Virgin Passages – Horizon mp3 (from Horizon) Euphoric, unhurried, hazy and hypnotic. Download St. Vincent – Kerosene (live) mp3 (Big Black cover) Visceral and stunning live cover … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: June 2011
We received a short e-mail from Steven at Big Hassle suggesting we check out a new artist by the name of Elle King. We’re glad we did. Although background info is pretty scarce we did discover she was born in Ohio and raised in Brooklyn by her mother. She retains her roots in a style that blends those two worlds of both grit and mid-western … Continue reading Introducing…Elle King
Peg Simone is in the studio working on her new album to be out in the winter of 2012. She has been playing music for over twenty-five years and has been a part of five different bands, but is now focusing on her solo career. American guitarist and writer Lenny Kaye praised Peg Simone’s fifth album saying that she “…sing-speaks ghostly and shadowy narratives from … Continue reading New Album from Peg Simone
As regular visitors to the blog will know we are suckers for most things with a”roots” tag. In fact, anything half-decent ticking the Folk, Country, or Americana boxes is in with a chance on MM and this bunch is a whole lot more than half-decent. From start to finish, Jo Henley’s album Mohawk is brimming with story-songs: a rollicking retelling of the Schenectady Massacre of … Continue reading Roots Round Up: Americana / Country / Folk
We came across Craig Hughes via a Bandcamp recommendation from the excellent Jim Head who we posted about recently. Hughes is a guitarist first and foremost mixing raw blues, acoustic slide and electric to excellent effect. His music is gritty, raw and affecting with echoes of the Texas dust, fuzzed up psych and country and the low moan of the deep south. This excellent track, On … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Craig Hughes
Another Friday, another stream of consciousness, or pile of shite – same thing really. Body currently in a great state of disrepair, not helped by falling down a big flight of stairs. All I can marvel at retrospectively is the number of thoughts that crossed my mind before I hit the bottom. And the amount of bruises on my body. Currently wondering what sounds the … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (17th June)
In a big rush today, but wanted to get this up today as we’ve been sat on it for a while. Propane Cowboy is a three piece rock band from Long Island, NY who draw their influences from Long Island’s rich indie scene as well as some better known acts in the artistic vein of alternative rock, punk, noise pop, blues, etc. Since the band’s … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Propane Cowboy
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