Soulful, country rockers Ha Ha Tonka release their new album Death Of A Decade on 5th April via Bloodshot Records. To be honest, we’d never really clicked with the band before now. However, lead track Usual Suspects has changed all that! So much so, that while we look forward to the new record, we’re going to be going back to the old stuff and listening … Continue reading Ha Ha Tonka To Release Death Of A Decade
Another bonanza month. Another round up of the very best tracks we posted in March. Another selection of new tunes to get your teeth into too. So without further ado… Download White Denim – Drug mp3 (from D) First taste of rockers new album. Bodes well. Very well. Download The Everymen – Ballad Of Sarin mp3 (from Hello, Nice Evening. We Are The Everymen) Cocksure but not … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March
Brown Bird’s 2009 album The Devil Dancing was an unheralded, under-rated classic bursting with sparse, haunted folk tunes, outlaw country and gypsy riots. In the brilliant and menacing Wrong Black Mare was a tune that turned up in plenty of the MM contributors end of year best of lists. So cue much rejoicing and metaphorical high fives when we discovered Brown Bird had a new 4 track … Continue reading New from Brown Bird…MM Rejoices
Here is Rotten To The Core from the Builders & The Butchers latest excellent effort, Dead Reckoning. It is the song that is, to us here at MM at least, the rollicking, hollering centrepiece of the record. The song that calls to mind the blood and thunder preachers in dusty pulpits, the hellfires and the brimstone, and the intense fury of both the righteous and … Continue reading More from the Builders & The Butchers
Coming Home is a solo outing from Denmark’s Maggie Bjorklund, released via the excellent Bloodshot Records. The album is a wonderful mix of instrumentals and collaborations with other artists such as Rachel Flotard, Jon Auer and best of all, Mrs Mackerel’s fave, the gravel voiced crooner Mark Lanegan. Meanwhile more Mrs M faves in the shape of Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico provide … Continue reading Introducing…Maggie Bjorklund
Good grief it’s Monday… I could bore you with an explanation, but really, does anyone care?! Only MM and he’s accepting of circumstances in his usual fishy way. We were quiz-lings again on Friday, and psychopaths (or should that be sociopaths?) notwithstanding, a good time was had by all. This week, the Teenager had his first humiliation in matters of the heart. Apparently, my rather … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s MGIM aka My God It’s Monday (28th Mar)
We first discovered Jeffrey Focault through his collaboration with Mark Erelli on the excellent dusty murder ballads album Seven Curses – one of those on a whim purchases because we liked the cover, that paid off handsomely. We since discovered he has an extensive back catalogue of work and is much revered by peers and contemporaries. So this is the title track to his forthcoming … Continue reading Jeffrey Foucault’s Horse Latitudes
Here is a round-up from round the internet and in-box of some big tunes, covers and new stuff that should brighten up the weekend. We have big hitters White Denim, Glasvegas, and Fucked Up, visceral garage rock from the Mantles and Liminanas, swelling orchestral indie from Dengue Fever and the Windupdeads, new folk rock (watch out Mumfords) from up and coming Son of Eagle, and … Continue reading Saturday Round-Up
We’re late again probably, but we are loving this track by Austin’s Twilight Hotel from their third album When The Wolves Go Blind. It is a brilliant combination of alt-country and spaghetti-western desert twang that moves languidly to conclusion via poignant, scalpel sharp lyrics. We will be investigating the rest of the album and the back catalogue for sure. You can buy the album from … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Twilight Hotel
We missed these. They are all excellent and we missed them. So just in case, (like us) you are late coming to them, then you’re in for a real treat – from the unwavering desolation of Josh T Pearson to the gung-ho garage riffs of Jeff The Brotherhood, all of these should (if we’d been doing our job properly) have been up on MM long … Continue reading OK…We Confess. We Missed These!
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