We have already given you the gorgeous George Clooney from This Frontier Needs Heroes forthcoming album Hooky, and now we have the equally good title track to share with you too. Continue reading MM Shorts 407: This Frontier Needs Heroes
The latest American Songwriter Muse sampler for July is up and available for download. Always a top notch compilation the July issue features twelve tracks including Pokey LaFarge, The Generationals, Guy Clarke, Har Mar Superstar and Dead Fingers amongst others. Grab it for free from their Bandcamp page here, or check out a couple of our favourites from Andrew Duhon and the brilliant Torres below. … Continue reading Latest American Songwriter Free Mix
New videos from the brilliant Willy Mason, from local Oxfordshire quartet Glass Animals, some psychedelic indie-pop from Her Turnpike Glow and a superb live session video from Bleech. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Willy Mason || Glass Animals || Her Turnpike Glow || Bleech
The marvellously named Cat Meat have made a new four track digital EP, Scarlet Belle, available for free via their Bandcamp page. Despite the connotations conjured up by the name, the band actually play an exquisite blend of sorrowful folk and alt-country, expertly utilising guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, violin and musical saw in ways that call to mind Sparklehorse, Wilco and the ghosts of long-gone … Continue reading New Free EP From Cat Meat
To follow on from our Best of the Month post yesterday, we’re kicking off July proper with a quick collection of excellent new tunes for you to stream. They come from the likes of metallic punk rockers Holograms, classic indie janglers Veronica Falls, sludgy metallers Torche, garage punks Wet Spots, the always top-notch Richard Buckner, brash garage snarl from TRAAMS, unique singer-songwriter Joseph Childress, and psych-blues rockers Heavy Times. Dive in. . . . . . . . Continue reading Speedy Round-Up
Here we are again, a round up of twenty five of June’s best downloads on Mad Mackerel (plus a few new tunes) that combine to make another perfect mix for those long summer days. Stick these on the iPod, crack a cold one, relax and enjoy! Honeyslide – Drippin Swathed in reverb, bathed in noise and drowned in dreamy vocals. [Click through for free download] … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: June 2013
The Sun Dogs is the title of the new album from Rose Windows. It is a brilliant blend of the past and the present to create something that overflows with imagination and new ideas. Influences range from the mystic shamanism of The Doors, to heavy Sabbath style riffs, the traditional sounds of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, classic folk and pedal steel, prog rock … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Rose Windows
Videos today from Balto, The Tea Cozies, Cattle & Cane and Middle Class Rut’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre inspired film for their track Aunt Betty. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Balto || Tea Cozies || Cattle & Cane || Middle Class Rut
The dark, bewitching folk-noir and heartbreaking pop of Chelsea Wolfe has, over the past three albums, gradually infiltrated, then beguiled, and then seduced us completely. Unique in her outlook, she uses drone, echoing vocals, and electronica to weave haunting, foggy tales of (often) despair, loss and sorrow. Her new album Pain Is Beauty will be released in early September and first single The Warden shows … Continue reading New Album From Chelsea Wolfe
We loved Confidence, the first track to be released from The Dodos forthcoming long player Carrier. And now we love Substance, the next track to get an airing from the record. Simple, rousing and lyrically scalpel sharp, it is The Dodos at their dynamic best. Pre-order the album here. Continue reading New Dodos Track
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