Yukon based Old Cabin release their self-titled debut LP on the 26th November. Lighthouse, the first single from Old Cabin, is available for free download. Old Cabin is the pseudonym of Jona Barr. In the last three years he has brought his music out of the woods and shared it with new fans across Canadian soil. In 2012, he released a six song EP entitled … Continue reading Introducing >>> Old Cabin
Time for another big round up of just a few of the many quality tunes that have found their way into our in-box and into our ears. We have not had enough time over the past few weeks to do them proper justice, but we promise all are worth some of your time to get to know them better. Enjoy. First up are Banded Stilts, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Massive Monday Round-Up
Sunday morning videos for you from The Spook School, a new track and video from The Dum Dum Girls, and from T. Hardy Morris, the final video from his Audition Tapes From Places In Peril series. It is a performance of the song Quit Diggin’, filmed at St. Eom’s Pasaquan, an internationally acclaimed visionary art site consisting of six major structures – the oldest a … Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Spook School || Dum Dum Girls || T. Hardy Morris || Caged Animals
Here is our traditional free Halloween Mix for 2013 – twenty five great tunes and the fourth year we’ve provided a soundtrack for one of the best nights of the year. Download a perfect mix of ghouls, ghosts, spooks, and all manner of assorted monsters…from all genres and the past 40 years. No trick, all treat! Download Gene Vincent – Race With The Devil mp3 … Continue reading Free Halloween Mix 2013
Occupying his own unique space in American music somewhere between the throaty junkyard stomp of Tom Waits and the wild mercurial ramblings of Dylan, James Keyes is a musician who travels solo with only a guitar and his right foot beating out the time on a home made pedal board. Gut-bucket blues, honky-tonk tear jerkers, songs of the road and its endless freedom, dark nights in … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… James Keyes
Videos for Sunday morning come with some Dangerous Blues from Miraculous Mule, and from a excellent collaboration by Less Love and Wondernaut we have the video for their track Like Shaking Hands. We also have orchestral indie pop from The Cabin Project and some classic Americana from Brandy Zdan who used to be one half of the the brilliant and sadly defunct Twilight Hotel and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Miraculous Mule || Less Love & Wondernaut || The Cabin Project || Brandy Zdan
Time to round up a few more of the releases that have tickled our ears from the inbox and round the web. Ali Koehler has hitherto been best known as the drummer of the pop group Best Coast and the noisy girl punk trio Vivian Girls. After her departure from Best Coast, Koehler decided to step up from behind the kit to front a band … Continue reading Rounding Them Up Again
Videos today come from Efren frontman Scott Low and a first taste from new solo record The Stories I Shouldn’t Tell in the form of Cactusgrass – a swirling and disorientating video perfectly suits the darkness and moodiness of the song. We also have the hypnotic and enchanting Cross Record’s appropriately haunting and off-kilter video for her brilliant track Maybe I’m Crazy. East India Youth’s striking … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Scott Low || Cross Record || East India Youth || Dead Wolf Club
Today is a proverbial red letter day in Mad Mackerel terms as it sees the official US release date for new albums from two of our favourite artists. From our side of the pond we have Sleep Dreamt a Brother, the new album from musician and artist Mathew Sawyer, out on Fire Records. The majority of the album was written and recorded following the loss of three friends … Continue reading New Albums Released From Wooden Wand And From Mathew Sawyer
We’re loving our belated discovery of Woody Pines and latest album Rabbits Motel, which is a charming and old fashioned throwback to the days of riding the rails, jumping boxcars and sleeping beneath the stars and all with echoes of Woody namesake Guthrie (of course). These are tracks of classic, ramblin’ country blues, where songs are filled with characters fighting to climb up or sliding … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Woody Pines
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