For anyone who missed it, the Tallest Man On Earth has made his new single 1904 available for free download via Rolling Stone. We’re posting it here too, though fully expecting it to be taken down as we’re sure the powers that be will decree it should only be free from one place on the web. If so use the link provided to grab it. Anyway, … Continue reading New Single From The Tallest Man On Earth
Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band release their new album Perlas today via Fire Records. It is a collection of songs and poems selected by Josephine herself, gathered from dusty old scores and brought vividly to the present with warm performances full of flesh-and-blood emotion. Sung in Spanish, the album overflows with an outpouring of melancholy and sorrow, but also of joy and excitement. … Continue reading Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band Release Perlas
The Doc Marshalls’ front man, Nick Beaudoing, has arrived in Nashville armed with an album that still reeks of Brooklyn, his former home. Whereas previous releases evoked a humid musical landscape along the Texas-Louisiana border, the Doc Marshalls’ new album, Look Out, Compadre, sheds the honky-tonk and Cajun two-steps in favor of crooked, shimmering folk reminiscent of Bonnie Prince Billy and A.A. Bondy. We’re loving the … Continue reading MM Shorts 156: The Doc Marshalls
Last week saw the release of Old Bricks second album City Lights. Recorded in Raleigh and released on the Grip Tapes label, it’s a departure from their debut album Farmers – still atmospheric and pensive, but much more intricately conceived, and heavier. A night’s ride through a dark, sparkling desert. Those who love Phosphorescent or The Roadside Graves may well find they will get much pleasure from Old Bricks … Continue reading Old Bricks Release City Lights
Our friend Devin James Fry of Salesman also drums and sings for another band, Lord Buffalo. They recently released their self-titled EP and it is both unsettling and haunting, creating a blend of darkly shrouded Americana as fiddles moan and guitars ominously brood and slash. They have tales to tell, but they’re not for the faint hearted, and only maybe for the broken hearted, but they … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Lord Buffalo
This weekend will be spent standing at the sea’s edge in Devon, in search of some little rays of sunshine, as daughter sprat and I take to the open road with Bing and little Span. Actually, it’s more likely that we will be spent dodging torrential rain showers and drinking a lot of coffee. Still, one can dream. Mass excitement in the small feminine corner … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (11th May)
Here are a few tracks that we’d meant to post, but for some inexplicable reason (well, time mostly…) we never got round to putting up at the time when they were new. Yet running through the long list we keep of mp3s, streams and videos, these were all in the “should post” category. They go back a couple of months (for some of them anyway), … Continue reading A Few We Missed…
We are big fans of Marissa Nadler’s haunting and ethereal folk that mixes melancholy with yearning in a wonderfully unique way. This is Apostle, the beautiful new single from forthcoming album The Sister and the follow-up up to the first track we heard from the album, The Wrecking Ball Company. Download both below. a Download Marissa Nadler – The Wrecking Ball Company mp3 (from The Sister) Continue reading New Single From Marissa Nadler
The Ruminaters are a collaborative four piece that play what they describe in their e-mail as “beatnik, barnyard, hillbilly swamp rock“. That was a description that was always going to make us sit up and listen. With influences from The White Stripes and Black Lips to The Strokes and the Clash, The Ruminaters play feel good tunes with an energetic and nostalgic feel. Being the first … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Ruminaters
We became instant fans of the Wind-Up Birds after hearing the brilliant There Won’t Always Be An England from their Tyre Fire 7″. They are a peculiarly British band steeped in the idiosyncrasies and (sometime ridiculous) ways and mentalities of our island, unafraid to gleefully reveal when the Emperor is out and about with his new clothes, and to champion the cause of the forgotten, the … Continue reading The Welcome Return of the Wind-Up Birds
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