Bad Cop’s debut Album Harvest The Beast (out September 14) is a bitches brew of southern fried Garage, Psych, Blues and Post-Punk that, put simply, will sear your cranium (and that can’t be a bad thing in MM’s book). They hail from the home of the country music industry, Nashville, but their sound comes from deep within their twisted souls. They’ve been building a steady … Continue reading Introducing…Bad Cop
Here at MM we get a lot of albums submitted for our listening pleasure via ReviewShine – an online method for putting bands and blogs together. Unfortunately we get so many submissions that we often can’t/don’t do them justice by giving them the listening time that they deserve – entirely our fault unfortunately. So we’ve spent the past couple of days making a concerted effort … Continue reading ReviewShine Round-up
Hot on the heels of the sleazy, grimy punk blues of the Jim Jones Revue which we posted a couple of days ago comes the er well, sleazy, grimy punk blues of The Ex-Girlfriends Club. Although these Portland, Oregon boys have a touch more glam rock about them than our UK version. We posted something from these guys last year which went down well on … Continue reading New single from Ex-Girlfriends Club
A while ago we posted a video from The Jim Jones Revue from their forthcoming album Burning Your House Down which is out on 6th September. Now we can give you Big Len, a frenzied slice of sleazy, tribal pyschobilly in the vein of the punk blues of legends The Jon Spencer’s Blues Explosion – just faster, dirtier and sexier. There are a list of … Continue reading New from The Jim Jones Revue
If Marcus Mumford is the Doctor, then Mark Lanegan is the Master, both being truly wonderful and original incantations of the singer/songwriter model. You get my drift? Welcome to my world. This week gives me the perfect excuse to commend another Lanegan song to TFI Friday, with the release of his latest joint collaboration with Isobel Campbell, Hawk. To my little ears, his voice is … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
We’ve already posted Tweak Bird’s superb A Sun Ahh Ahh, which is certain to feature in our end of year Best Of list. Now the Illinois based brothers have made a second track available for free download in advanced of their self titled album which is released on August 30th. Lights In Lines is another excellent example of their space travelled themed psych-rock and further … Continue reading More from Tweak Bird
Nick Marsh, lead singer with 1980’s alternative goth-rock luminaries Flesh For Lulu (yep, we loved ’em) and lead guitarist in London’s raucous 10 piece gypsy blues outfit The Urban Voodoo Machine finally officially releases his haunting solo album, A Universe Between Us. To listen to this album is like pulling up a stall beside some beaten barfly loosened by liquor, contemplating life, love and loss. Like … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Nick Marsh
We received this track in our in-box from a mysterious someone who may or may not have any connection with The Dead Brothers. Either way, it is quite the most tasty cover we’ve heard in a long while, Bauhaus’s stonewall goth classic Bela Lugosi’s Dead given a poisonous yet intimate makeover incorporating the doom of Wagner’s gothic and the in-bred sound of cowshit on snakeskin … Continue reading Introducing…The Dead Brothers
We’ve already given you one swamp blues infused rocker from Dax Riggs, taken from his new solo album Say Goodnight To The World which was released today. So to celebrate, here is another track for your listening pleasure. Another track of baroque, voodoo inspired darkness carried along by driving percussion…Visceral? Lets just say you can almost feel the sweat sliding down the walls of some … Continue reading Another from Dax Riggs
Passover The debut album from The Black Angels was phenomenal and became an instant favourite from the moment we first heard it. The follow up Directions To See A Ghost wasn’t half bad either. In fact it is to our eternal disappointment that we did not get to see them in their hometown on our trip to SxSW in 2009. Anyway, the muscular five piece … Continue reading New from The Black Angels
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