As any recent, or regular, reader of MM will know Wooden Wand is a stonewall favourite round these parts, featuring prominently in the end-of-year best of lists for both tracks and albums. So we wanted to let you know, and to urge you, to get behind his Kickstarter project to fund a new album to be recorded under the name Wooden Wand & The Briarwood … Continue reading Support Wooden Wand’s Kickstarter Project
In 2005, Chad Kichula sold his truck to pay for his first album. The result was a self-titled Americana/roots-rock album that showed he could craft lyrics and tell a story with the best of them. In 2007, Chad went into the studio to record a three song EP entitled Better in the Morning. It featured acoustic compositions which Chad was already playing on the road. In … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Chad Kichula
Céleigh Chapman grew up singing country standards in the juke joints of Bakersfield, California. Isaac Watters was born in Mexico City, Mexico and raised in Tucson, and spent much of his youth in El Coyol, Mexico. He is an artist, writer and architect. Celeigh and Isaac met and began performing together in Los Angeles. Coyol is the result: whiskey bravery and absinthe romanticism, a collision … Continue reading Introducing…Coyol
Despite all the ‘best of’ lists, the top tens/twenties/fifties/one hundreds etc. and all the Christmas songs too, there has still been a cracking amount of new releases in December as well. So lest you missed out, here is our monthly round-up of the best tunes we’ve posted in December and, as always, a couple of new ones too. That’s the New Year’s Eve mixtape sorted … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: December
Master bluesmen are probably pretty thin on the ground in South London, but it is down there, amidst the grey arterial routes, Victorian terraces and leafy parks that Duke Garwood makes his home. Garwood’s new album, Dreamboatsafari sees him expanding on the spacious, dusty room blues found on previous albums Emerald Palace and The Sand That Falls. The genesis of this LP came when Garwood was … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Duke Garwood
Jeremy Joyce is a guy who plays the guitar and writes songs from Philadelphia and currently residing in Brooklyn. He also writes great biographies… “He got his start listening to Metallica on tape on boomboxes that had features such as high speed dubbing. He often noted that Iron Maiden sounded a lot better when they were being dubbed at high speed. Working nights at a … Continue reading Introducing…Jeremy Joyce
A true original, and a true great. Download Captain Beefheart – Sure ‘Nuff ‘n Yes I Do mp3 (from Safe As Milk) Continue reading Captain Beefheart RiP
So after much deliberation, head scratching, discussion, and more head scratching, we have MM’s favourite albums of 2010. And we choose our words very carefully here, because we would not presume them to be the best, only those that have given us the most pleasure and enjoyment, records that we have returned to again and again, and for whatever reason have captured a moment or … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Albums of the Year
Brett and Rennie Sparks are The Handsome Family. They are also a staple of the musical diet in the Mackerel household. Pioneers of modern gothic country, we’ve been fans ever since we heard such classics as After We Shot The Grizzly, Weightless Again, In The Air, right through to more recent tracks like Darling My Darling and a host of others. With a sly black humour ever … Continue reading Scattered – new album from The Handsome Family
E’ville Fuzz arrives two-and-a-half years after 6 Day Bender’s self-titled debut. The title references the farmhouse in Earlysville, Virginia, where the band crafted the album’s thirteen songs, as well as the ‘fuzzier,’ more blues-oriented dimension the album explores. The band recorded the new project between bouts of touring, bankrolling the studio sessions with proceeds from the road. The result is a high-octane rock record with … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…6 Day Bender
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