Video of the Day: Fierce Creatures
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Category: Electronic
Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: July 2012
You know the score. Some of our favourite downloads from the past month neatly parcelled up into one tasty mix and decorated with a few new tunes too. Nearly forty in all. Jump in! Download Wye Oak – Spiral mp3 (from Adult Swim Singles Series) A change of approach and tempo from experimental folkies Download Unnatural Helpers – Hate Your Teachers mp3 (from Land Grab) Raging. Ferocious. Punk Download … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: July 2012
MM Shorts 200: Insound & Uncut Freebies
We thought we’d bundle these two together – the latest free Vinyl mix download from Insound and Uncut magazine’s latest free cover disk. Both offering a mighty enticing slice of new music of all shapes and sizes. The Insound mix can be got for free for a limited time, and features The Family Band, Niki & The Dove, Hot Panda, and Chain & The Gang amongst … Continue reading MM Shorts 200: Insound & Uncut Freebies
A Massive Friday Mix
The number of new releases has cranked back into top gear recently with a whole host of tasty ear ticklers coming our way. So what could be even better than an Olympic opening ceremony than a massive Mad Mackerel Friday mix – twenty four tracks handpicked especially for you. We light the flame with buzzworthy punked-up noiseniks Fidlar and in the same vein another from … Continue reading A Massive Friday Mix
Mad Mackerel Recommends…Steakhouse
Or should that be S T E A K H O U S E? Either way, this San Francisco five-piece borrows from early 70s krautrock bands like Neu! and Kraftwerk, and throws in some tasty art-rock moves on top (think Wire or Gang of Four). Add to that some classic artifacts of modern America’s first native music, Country & Western, and you have the rough outlines … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Steakhouse
Free Sun Sister Single
Sun Sister is a quartet from Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The band’s music can be described as lo-fi dreampop with warm melodies, gorgeous reverbed vocals and rough jangly guitars. They have a single out via the ever-wonderful Eardrums Pop for whom it is the latest in their series of excellent free singles. Download the whole package including the three tracks, artwork, and accompanying booklet, all beautifully put … Continue reading Free Sun Sister Single
Video of the Day: Vuvuvultures
Friday Means Six of the Best
Here are another six tunes to try and cheer you up a little bit on another dank and dreary Friday in England… First up is Hardly Art’s Unnatural Helpers and their raging first single, Hate Your Teachers, from upcoming album Land Grab. River City Tanlines keep the energy levels fizzing with their own garage-punk howl and shred of Stop My Heart taken from the forthcoming release … Continue reading Friday Means Six of the Best
Video of the Day: Trails And Ways
Mad Mackerel Recommends…Daughn Gibson
Every so often an artist comes along that just blows every expectation you have out of the water. This is Daughn Gibson. We may be late to post about this, but no matter that his album All Hell came out back in April. This is most certainly a case of better late than never. Previously he was in stoner rock band Pearls and Brass, but … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Daughn Gibson
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