Here is the video for the stomping, swooping Where The Wild Are, the title track of the new EP from Belfast-born, Liverpool-based brother and sister band Southern. . . . Continue reading Video: Southern – Where The Wild Are
Lust, seduction, addiction, sleaze. All topics that we generally find can help make a mighty fine song. Throw in some deep baritone vocals, rolling rootsy instrumentation and a good helping of despair and frustration and you have something pretty close to New York trio Ten Ton Man’s forthcoming three track EP Chunk Of Change – The Toad Hill Sessions. Watch the appropriately bawdy video for Fine … Continue reading Ten Ton Man – Chunk Of Change EP
Deservedly adding her name to the seemingly endless outpouring of talent from Sweden is the gorgeous and evocative Alice Boman. Her new release EPII will see the light of day in June, and to tide us over we have the first single What for your undoubted listening pleasure. It is a song to immerse yourself in – fragile, sparse and undeniably haunting, and seems to carry … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Alice Boman
Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
The third single to be taken from her third album Mug Museum, and one of our favourite tracks on the record, Sisters explores the female relationships in Cate Le Bon’s life, following the loss of her Grandmother, a running theme throughout the album. Cate comments, “Following the death of my maternal Grandmother I felt a very palpable shift in the roles that we’d all become accustomed … Continue reading New Cate Le Bon Single
Favorite Waitress will be released by the Felice Brothers on June 9th in the UK and Europe and June 18th in North America. Here is a video trailer with song clips from our most anticipated record of the year… . Here they are covering Harvest Moon…any excuse to post something! Continue reading Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress Album Trailer
Now in its third year, wiaiwya-7777777 is a seven inch singles club, and a very ambitious seven inch singles club at that – it is a celebration of the format and all things seven… Subscribers to wiaiwya-7777777 2014 will get seven picture discs (released on the 7th of the month) that together form a fully illustrated seven step guide to releasing your own records – … Continue reading WIAIWYA-7777777 Singles Club
About six years ago, Song By Toad was one of the music blogs that made us want to kick off Mad Mackerel, and to this day we are still regular readers. As many of you will know, as well as a blog, it is also a record label and has included such MM faves as Eagleowl, Nightjar, Meursault, Rob St. John and Sparrow & The Workshop amongst … Continue reading Song By Toad 2014 Sampler
We were fortunate enough to receive our advance copy of Simone Felice’s new album Strangers in the mail this week and it has been in pretty constant play ever since. We’d already posted a couple of outstanding tracks from the record and happily the rest of it is just as good, if not better. It is a mix of the tender, the forlorn, the beautiful … Continue reading Simone Felice – UK Tour & Posters
Secretly Canadian have announced the release of a deluxe box set of rare recordings from Jason Molina’s Songs: Ohia, for Record Store Day in April. Gathered within Journey On: Collected Singles are many of the charming, haunting and elegantly disparate moments lost in the void of limited pressings and merch tables across Songs: Ohia’s six year course. Have a listen to Soul below. . Continue reading Songs: Ohia Singles Box Set For Record Store Day
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