The ever reliable Fire Records has announced the start of a Giant Sand / Howe Gelb series of rolling reissues, which will see the re-release of roughly 30 albums culminating in two box sets to be released next year. Each album will be lovingly re-issued in red and silver limited edition digipacks. The first three (Valley Of Rain, The Ballad Of A Thin Line Man, Storm) … Continue reading Fire Records Reissue Giant Sand Albums
Originally a folk duo, and now expanded into a quartet, The Uncles made a dent in some of the MM Top Tens of 2010 and are planning to release their second album in late summer. It is the follow up to their excellent debut from 2010, Replacing Words With Other Words. M4W is their latest single available to download and will also feature on the album. Download … Continue reading New Single from The Uncles
Here is our regular round up of the best of January’s posts plus a couple of new tracks for your listening pleasure – all beautifully designed to make one perfect mixtape. Download Wooden Wand – The DNR Waltz mp3 More classic down-tempo folk from greatly underrated MM fave. Download Phosphorescent – Are You Ready For The Country? mp3 Riff-heavy, mean-assed cover which brilliantly captures the double-edged viciousness … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January
As you may know The Haunted Windchimes have become favourites of both Mrs M and myself over the past twelve months, making it into our Best of Lists for albums and tracks at the end of 2010. They will be releasing a live album soon with, as they say, all your favourite Windchimes songs, and to tempt us have offered up this short video teaser … Continue reading Haunted Windchimes Prepare Live Album For Release
Having grown tired of being cross on a Friday (see various preceding TFIs – if you’re bored), I have revisited the joy of a gin and tonic, with a gimlet, of course … I have avoided reading the football press and the pressing legal case that has menaced our business, avoided the hatchet faced lying psycho at the school gate, and decided that regarding life … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (28th Jan)
Band of Horses have announced that Dilly will be the next single to be released from their rather good album Infinite Arms on Monday 14th February. The single will come backed with an exclusive cover of Cee-Lo Green’s Georgia. The accompanying video has been inspired by biker films of the 70s – see for yourself… Buy Infinite Arms from Amazon here. Continue reading Band of Horses – New Single & Video
We were unaware of Duquette Johnston until a few days ago, when he was referenced as a friend and collaborator in an e-mail from MM fave Wooden Wand. His biography on Reverbnation says “In the past Duquette Johnston was a founding member of such influential bands as Verbena and Cutgrass. Along the way sharing the stage with bands such as Pavement, Jesus Lizard, the Strokes, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Duquette Johnston
Just received this update from Wooden Wand about his Kickstarter project. “Howdy everybody, Really excited to announce that we have reached our goal – we officially have enough to cover the recording, mixing, mastering and pressing of this LP. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart – this has been very inspiring. But let’s don’t quit now! We undershot by a bit to … Continue reading Wooden Wand Kickstarter Update
It is well documented on here how much we love the wonderfully forbidding, and sometimes macabre, indie folk of the Howling Owls. For their latest track, they have teamed up with Maximino for A Wordsmith’s Reverie. It has an almost a waltz-time feel to it, but is still an everyday tale of resignation and failed expectations. And of course we love it. Enjoy. Visit their … Continue reading Howling Owls Are Back
Hurray For The Riff Raff began when a teenage Alynda Lee Segarra started hopping freight trains across the USA to satisfy a yearning to explore its mythical small towns and backwaters and live a life on the road and the rail track. She left her native Bronx, New York at the age of 17, and while riding the rails she hooked up with The Dead Man … Continue reading Hurray For The Riff Raff to release debut album in the UK
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