The Low Anthem are a staple favourite here at MM and their stunning performance at last year’s End of the Road Festival to a rapt and enthralled crowd on the lovely Garden Stage will remain one of our favourite live shows ever. This year they have already given us the excellent Smart Flesh (an album that appears amongst our Best of the Year lists in … Continue reading Free Album Download From The Low Anthem
2/3 Goat (pronounced: Two-Thirds Goat) is not your average New York City based farm band. On November 20th they will release their sophomore album Stream of Conscience, which was recorded entirely on vintage equipment, along with a music video for the title track, taking a stance against mountaintop removal coal mining. Fronted by lead singer Annalyse McCoy, the band’s fusion of Folk, Blues, Rock, and Country … Continue reading Introducing…2/3 Goat
Monday 5th December sees the release of the new Felice Brothers single Fire At The Pageant, on 7″ single & download. It is our favourite song from one of our favourite albums of the year. Here is the eerie, slightly disturbing video for it. a Be like us and go and see them live too: 06/12 LONDON Koko, 07/12 MANCHESTER Academy 2, 09/12 GLASGOW ABC, 10/12 … Continue reading MM Shorts 36: Felice Brothers Video
D.B. Rouse was born and raised in the north woods of Wisconsin, but he’s travelled everywhere with his guitar and worked in Alaska, in Maine, on a Cruise Ship in the Atlantic, and on a horse ranch near Austin Texas. He’s been a goat farmer and a lounge singer, a bartender and a pawn shop cashier, he’s packaged salmon and he’s harvested blueberries. His latest EP is called … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…D.B. Rouse
We recently streamed the wonderful new First Aid Kit single, the title track from forthcoming album The Lion’s Roar. Here’s the video. a Continue reading MM Shorts 34: First Aid Kit Video
We were big fans of The Morning Birds and their album The Quickening and so we were delighted to get news of their latest release, a six track EP titled Surrender To This (out on January 1st). We were even more delighted to find the trademark honeyed vocals and infectious rhythms were still very much in evidence. Check out our taster track Born To Be Alive, … Continue reading The Morning Birds Are Back
We’re busy catching up on a few things we weren’t able to post over the past few days. So, without further ado, here are some brilliant new ones including The Mountain Goats, the languid country rock of The Futurebirds, a brilliantly intense offering from Cloud Nothings, more icy electronica from Work Drugs, indie pop from Gross Magic and the psych blues rock of White Denim and … Continue reading MM Plays Catch Up
To celebrate our downloads working again we thought we would re-post our best of the month mix from October – more than 20 great tracks selected from our October posts and six new ones too. This time you can download and dive in. Download The Minks – Araby mp3 (from Araby 7″) Endearingly gloomy slice of indie-pop. Download The Bloody Hollies – Dirty Sex mp3 (from Yours Until The Bitter End) The dark … Continue reading Repost: Best of October 2011 Mix
We posted about the new Grass House single recently. Here is the rather cool video for Faun. a Continue reading MM Shorts 31: New Grass House Video
Since early 2010, Chicago indie-folk songwriter Christian Keck has performed and recorded as Fall Fox: a moniker fitting for an outfit that has drawn comparisons to lo-fi folk acts such as The Mountain Goats and Ghost Mice. Throughout the project, Keck has embraced the DIY bedroom pop aesthetic, weaving acoustic guitars together with analog synths to form an intimate and inviting canopy of sound. The followup to … Continue reading New EP From Fall Fox
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