Another bonanza month. Another round up of the very best tracks we posted in March. Another selection of new tunes to get your teeth into too. So without further ado… Download White Denim – Drug mp3 (from D) First taste of rockers new album. Bodes well. Very well. Download The Everymen – Ballad Of Sarin mp3 (from Hello, Nice Evening. We Are The Everymen) Cocksure but not … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March
Brown Bird’s 2009 album The Devil Dancing was an unheralded, under-rated classic bursting with sparse, haunted folk tunes, outlaw country and gypsy riots. In the brilliant and menacing Wrong Black Mare was a tune that turned up in plenty of the MM contributors end of year best of lists. So cue much rejoicing and metaphorical high fives when we discovered Brown Bird had a new 4 track … Continue reading New from Brown Bird…MM Rejoices
Here is Rotten To The Core from the Builders & The Butchers latest excellent effort, Dead Reckoning. It is the song that is, to us here at MM at least, the rollicking, hollering centrepiece of the record. The song that calls to mind the blood and thunder preachers in dusty pulpits, the hellfires and the brimstone, and the intense fury of both the righteous and … Continue reading More from the Builders & The Butchers
Back in June last year we posted about Alegrias, an exceptional album from Howe Gelb with his Band of Gypsies that was recorded atop a Cordoba roof in the Andalucía sun. Originally only available in Spain, where the record enjoyed considerable success due in part to the wondrous contribution from Flamenco guitar virtuoso Raimundo Amador, Fire Records will be releasing the album in the USA in May. … Continue reading Howe Gelb & A Band Of Gypsies to release Alegrias in the USA
They may look like shy bookish types, but the ten librarians of the baroque indie pop group Michael J Epstein Memorial Library know how to make some noise. Their songs are sweet with tinges of darkness and bring to mind Magnetic Fields and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Michael J Epstein Memorial Library’s, Volume One, which is full of cleverly written tunes taken from … Continue reading Introducing…Michael J Epstein Memorial Library
Coming Home is a solo outing from Denmark’s Maggie Bjorklund, released via the excellent Bloodshot Records. The album is a wonderful mix of instrumentals and collaborations with other artists such as Rachel Flotard, Jon Auer and best of all, Mrs Mackerel’s fave, the gravel voiced crooner Mark Lanegan. Meanwhile more Mrs M faves in the shape of Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico provide … Continue reading Introducing…Maggie Bjorklund
For anyone who has been with MM since the early days you may recall our affection for a band from Montreal called My People Sleeping. They were one of the first bands we posted about, and their brilliant song Seahorse ranked highly in our top ten of 2008. Sadly the band is no more, but former member James Irwin will be releasing a solo album on May … Continue reading Introducing…James Irwin
We first discovered Jeffrey Focault through his collaboration with Mark Erelli on the excellent dusty murder ballads album Seven Curses – one of those on a whim purchases because we liked the cover, that paid off handsomely. We since discovered he has an extensive back catalogue of work and is much revered by peers and contemporaries. So this is the title track to his forthcoming … Continue reading Jeffrey Foucault’s Horse Latitudes
Here is a round-up from round the internet and in-box of some big tunes, covers and new stuff that should brighten up the weekend. We have big hitters White Denim, Glasvegas, and Fucked Up, visceral garage rock from the Mantles and Liminanas, swelling orchestral indie from Dengue Fever and the Windupdeads, new folk rock (watch out Mumfords) from up and coming Son of Eagle, and … Continue reading Saturday Round-Up
Boston dream-folk artist, Marissa Nadler releases her fifth full-length album on 14th June, the first to be released on her very own label Box of Cedar Records. Making music for nearly a decade, her ethereal songwriting remains rich with imagery and beautiful textures. Check out the gorgeous Baby I Will Leave You In The Morning for proof. Buy more Marissa Nadler from here. Download Marissa … Continue reading New from Marissa Nadler
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