Here at MM we always have a soft spot for good new singer-songwriters and we have another one for you today. Utah Green is a troubadour and underground poet, and has just released her debut album via label The Royal Potato Family. The songs on ForTune are full of gorgeous natural imagery of mountains, rivers and valleys and injected with a bold sense of humour … Continue reading Introducing…Utah Green
Already Mrs M is getting highly excited about the forthcoming Mumford & Sons gig in Hammersmith in October. So when we came across their cover of the White Lies track Unfinished Business we thought it would be churlish to keep it to ourselves…a dark, gloomy goth-rock anthem turned into a banjo led folksong… It is from a recent trip to Australia and a session they … Continue reading Mumford & Sons Cover White Lies
Well, the family shoal is spread far and wide this Friday 13th, with me and the two youngest visiting friends in Switzerland, and MM plus the eldest in the more tropical climes of Morocco looking for wildlife, mainly of the scaly kind. I find August quite a strange month, and possibly one of my least favourites, aside from the welcome family time. (I know there’s … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
We received this track in our in-box from a mysterious someone who may or may not have any connection with The Dead Brothers. Either way, it is quite the most tasty cover we’ve heard in a long while, Bauhaus’s stonewall goth classic Bela Lugosi’s Dead given a poisonous yet intimate makeover incorporating the doom of Wagner’s gothic and the in-bred sound of cowshit on snakeskin … Continue reading Introducing…The Dead Brothers
Amen Dunes is the performing name of one Damon McMahon and he has just released a new seven track EP of hazy, sunlit psychedelic folk titled Murder Dull Mind. It came out via the excellent Sacred Bones label. We have the title track for you here and while on the surface it is sweet enough (with even an underlying pop sensibility), it still has a … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Amen Dunes
After two excellent 7″ singles, Austin band TV Torso are releasing a six track 12″ vinyl only release titled Status Quo Vadis. Official release date is 31st August. We’re a little late coming to the band, but our ears were pricked when we heard the excellent, hypnotic pulse and sixties harmonies of I Can See Your Face, the b side to single Days Of Being … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…TV Torso
Efren is a folk group hinting on the psychedelic, from areas around Athens, Georgia. New EP Always Been A Bleeder comes hot off the heels of the band’s debut album, Thunder & Moan. The four piece is the songwriting vehicle of one Scott Leon-O’Day; with roots in jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass and rock. Efren touches on Southern Americana music, draws from indie lo-fi ideas, and tells … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Efren
Well, the week started off in such a promising way with a trip into Oxford to see a spectacularly good production of Midsummer’s Night Dream, played out in mesmerising style by an ensemble from the travelling Shakespeare’s Globe company. All the better that it was the very best MND I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a few) because it was my 12 year old son’s first … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
For her tender years, Anja McCloskey, is a relative veteran of the music scene. She has already gained a raft of experience playing with the likes of The Irrepressibles and folk-rock trailblazers, Haunted Stereo. Half-American, half-German and raised in Northern Germany, she now resides in the UK and her eclectic background has been put to good use. Forthcoming EP – Turn, Turn, Turn – features … Continue reading Introducing…Anja McCloskey
In September, Denmark’s Bjarke Bendtsen aka The Migrant will release his first album titled Travels In Lowland. It is an album that beckons you in to a underworld where beautiful pop songs mix happily with psychedelic folk and frankly, if taster track The Organ Grinder is anything to go by, you won’t want to leave! While visiting Denmark last summer, Bendtsen recorded the album with some … Continue reading Introducing…The Migrant
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