It is fair to say that Last American Buffalo are a band that have won universal admirers amongst all the MM shoal with their short series of free releases at the turn of the year. They exquisitely blend folk, blues and classic country rock with a bitter edge that spits and snarls its discontent with the world. However, since January all has been pretty quiet, … Continue reading Last American Buffalo Release Here She Comes
Jenee Halstead’s album Raised By Wolves is released on 13th August. It has taken us a while to get round to listening to it, and in all honesty part of that was overcoming the terrible cover, which unfortunately looks like something from Narnia. Perhaps a rejected promo for a straight-to-DVD version of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe. However like the wardrobe and the treasures … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Jenee Halstead
This post is about the single biggest reason we blog – for that wonderful moment when you get a discovery of a new band. A new band like Wild Leaves. The band’s e-mail simply said, “We are 5 friends who moved to Brooklyn, from the midwest. That distance is recalled in our songs. Each one, a look back at what we left behind. The sound … Continue reading Introducing >>> Wild Leaves
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
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
Although we’ve been meaning to get round to listening to Kalle Mattson (now a four-piece) for a while, it took a timely reminder from trusty Song by Toad to prod us into action. So with apologies to our friends at Crash Avenue (we should listen to you more often), we gave their new EP Lives In Between a spin. And then another. And another. In fact … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Kalle Mattson
It is fair to say we’ve got ourselves pretty excited about the release of the new Strand Of Oaks album Dark Shores. If you want to know why, just sit back and listen to the full album stream below and then head here to buy a copy. a Continue reading Strand Of Oaks – Album Stream Of Dark Shores
Ex Goat farmer, salmon packer, and pawn shop cashier D.B. Rouse has crossed the MM radar a few times in the past. For as well as all those things, he is a roaming, itinerant troubadour of the old-school, and of the best kind. Like another MM fave Wooden Wand, he also appears to have the rare ability to maintain quality whilst producing an output that … Continue reading New Album From D.B. Rouse
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