We discovered Hollowbelly via the excellent Ninebullets.net and he’s made a pretty big impression on our listening this weekend. Joe, our youngest, listening in the car observed “he has a voice like lightning” and we couldn’t have put it better ourselves. Hollowbelly plays the sort of stomping, raw, primeval blues so beloved of Reverend Deadeye or Scott H Biram, yet rather than being from the … Continue reading Try Some Hollowbelly
Rhode Island residents The Benedictions play what is often called called devil music. They must do because their just released album is called The Benedictions Play Devil Music. On this occasion it’s hard folk, hard blues, hard country. It conjures images of grizzled old timers with whiskey eyes stamping their boots on beer-soaked wooden floors before heading back out into the dusty desert. It is authentic, … Continue reading Introducing…The Benedictions
We first heard this single on Radio 6 a few weeks ago and were completely blown away by the brilliant mix of full-on old-school metal riffing and its psychedelic overtones and climax. We made an immediate note to self to track this song down at all costs. The band is Tweak Bird, brothers Caleb (guitar, vocals) and Ashton Bird (drums, vocals), natives of Carbondale, IL … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Tweak Bird
With Kathleen, The Ferocious Few have joyously raided the rock’n’roll cupboard and produced a sub two minute classic. With Porcelain Doll, The Ferocious Few have joyously raided the rock’n’roll cupboard and produced a sub two minute classic. With their debut album Juices, The Ferocious Few have joyously…well you probably get the picture. Like many before them, this Californian duo have plundered blues, punk, rockabilly, lo-fi … Continue reading Introducing…The Ferocious Few
This is one of those standard music blogger confessions. The “I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, but somehow never got round to it”. The injured party on this occasion is the marvellous Luther Russell and his Motorbike EP, which saw the light of day back in February. At the time we were hugely taken with the songs on the EP (which are taken … Continue reading Luther Russell – a late post…
Looks like we’re on a major lo-fi, garage roll this Friday. We’re mighty glad those downloads are fixed! Hopefully, you’ve already picked up the excellent tracks from The Burnt Ones and The Jacuzzi Boys from earlier, and now we have for your aural delight the b-side to the forthcoming Cloud Nothings single Didn’t You. Titled Even If It Worked Out, it is brash, snotty, and … Continue reading Even more lo-fi garage psych-goodness
Insound.com have made their free June mixtape available here. As always, it will only be up for around a week (so be quick), and as always it is packed full of excellent tracks, which can all be yours in return for an e-mail address. Highlights among them this month being MM faves Blitzen Trapper, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Suckers, Teenage Fanclub, and these two gems we’ve picked … Continue reading Insound’s Free June Mixtape
As usual, here is our round-up of some of the best songs we’ve posted during April plus a couple of new ones. Thirty great songs all ready to go on one cracking playlist and impress your family and friends. Without further ado… Shabby Rogue – My Life As A Secret Agent mp3 (High octane, paranoia induced rock ‘n’ roll riffage) Kurt Vile – Invisibility Nonexistent … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: April
It’s one rule for you and another for everyone else. Do as I say, but not as I do. And so on. On Thursday, the original MM site was taken down without warning, without a backward glance, without apology, by some faceless individual/s at a soulless organisation. All that hard work switched off, tuned out, unplugged. Unlike some we could mention, however, we are passionate … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
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