We’re really enjoying this demo from Men’s Adventures who are completely new to us, but have a nice country-surf thing going on with a sound that calls to mind Dick Dale, The Beach Boys and Ennio Morricone all in one go. Oh, and there’s a dash of tropical sunshine and an underbelly of sweet psychedelia in there too. Take a listen to the wonderfully titled … Continue reading Introducing >>> Men’s Adventures
Today’s videos come from Clinic, with an appropriately shattered and psychedelic offering of broken images and cascading colours accompanying Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC 10pm (rpt), from Steady Hills we have the folky Long Grey Roads and from the excellently monikered Roadkill Ghost Choir some nine months work of animation for Bird In My Window. Finally, watch Garrett Pierce’s spaghetti western themed video for the haunting Why, … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Clinic || Steady Hills || Roadkill Ghost Choir || Garrett Pierce
We are long standing admirers of husband and wife duo Whitehorse ever since we discovered their self-titled debut of 2011 – eight songs of blues-stomp and seedy ballads. Somehow we missed their latest album, when it was originally released last summer, but have caught up now as it is seemingly getting a second push with another ‘release’ last month. It takes its title from a … Continue reading Whitehorse: The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss
Metaphorically speaking we have a huge red ring round March 5 on our calendar because that is when the new Cave Singers album Naomi gets a release. They have made a second track from it available for your listening pleasure and Easy Way certainly more than meets our (high) expectations as it drives along on the back of another trademark riff from Derek Fudesco and even … Continue reading Easy Way From The Cave Singers
Between Hurricanes is Stephen Fearing’s first solo album in seven years. The follow-up to 2006’s acclaimed Yellowjacket, the album is available today via Lowden Proud Records Ltd. Born out of several life-changing events, the album is both the document and result of many significant changes for Fearing including divorce, a change of record label and an amicable parting of the ways with his manager – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Stephen Fearing
Laurelin Kruse is a girl from Colorado stuck in Brooklyn and this song is about how she’s always trying to get the hell home. She says “It’s like a meteorite crashing into a Spaghetti Western. Plus, ya know, folk music.” Sounds about right to us, as does the song. Good stuff. It is called Jupiter, listen to it. Download it. Continue reading Introducing >>> Laurelin Kruse
So, all things considered January got off to a rip-roaring start where new tunes are concerned. Here is our selection of our best of the month’s downloads (27 in all) and a few new tunes too – more than 30 to pick from, so blow those January blues away with these babies. Prissy Clerks – Bruise or Be Bruised Mix of fuzzed up punk and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2013
Scowlin Owl are an all-female folk band, low on twee but big on drama and vocal harmonies. Their debut single, called Mifune is a driving, atmospheric song about the relationship between Japan’s most famous actor Toshiro Mifune and legendary film director Akira Kurosawa. Released yesterday, Scowlin Owl are influenced by storytellers from the classic (Dylan, Baez) to the contemporary (Decemberists, Midlake). Any story or concept which inspires may … Continue reading Introducing >>> Scowlin Owl
Portland, Oregon’s Rare Monk have a sound that is both familiar and distinctly their own. With a slew of brand new tracks, Sleep/Attack is their first long player (out 26th February) and a follow up to their excellent Death by Proxy EP (see our original post here). It’s an upbeat and ambitious album that takes inspiration from such diverse concepts as the enormity of the universe to … Continue reading Debut Album From Rare Monk
Jody Nelson had a busy 2012 with a fantastic EP release from Through the Sparks, production duties on Some Dark Holler’s Hollow Chest, performing on Wooden Wand’s Blood Oaths of the New Blues, and touring and working diligently throughout the year on his own Dorado project. And it is this project that has seriously got our attention – the album Anger, Hunger, Love and the Fear of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Dorado
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