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
Coastwest Unrest is the moniker for the collaboration between violin whiz kid Alex Barnes, and brothers Josh and Noah Dickie who formed the band in the spring of 2009. Their second full-length album is out now. Old Weird America is full of material that lives up to its title with songs about redemption, biblical imagery, rebellion, loss, the nightmarish American landscape and the haunting ghosts of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Coastwest Unrest
Happy New Year! So we start 2011 with some outlaw country honky-tonk from Whitey Morgan & The 78’s. It seemed more than appropriate to follow the New Year’s Eve festivities with this… I Ain’t Drunk comes from their latest self-titled album and it is well worth a listen. You can check out their MySpace page here. With all good wishes for 2011 from all at … Continue reading Happy New Year…from Whitey Morgan & The 78’s
Doing those things you do at Christmas. Watching a film. Quietly crying a few tears at a sad story. Feel a small hand cover mine. I’ll look after you mama. A little time passes. A few more tears cried, this time belonging to the owner of the small hands. Empathy. Compassion. Love. One moment to treasure a whole lifetime. Happy New Year. Mrs Mackerel I … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (31st December)
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
Now that we’ve had the top tens from all the Mad Mackerel contributors, we will give you a definitive overall top ten in a couple of days. Before that is our penultimate top ten list of the year – the favourite new bands and artists that have come our way in 2010 which was perhaps the hardest list of all to compile. So with honourable … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 9, Favourite New Artists
Here at MM we share, chat, argue, bury and praise music on a pretty regular basis…like daily. So throughout the year, the Mackerel crew (Mrs Mackerel, Barry-Sean, Christy-Popper, Dr Roddy, Polly Pocket, Starbar, MM and others) keep their own ever-changing top tens ready for publication at the climax of the festive season. So last, but very much not least, is the lovely (though flu-stricken) Mrs … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 8, Mrs Mackerel
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
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