The latest free Sampler from American Songwriter is a gem, featuring 12 tracks from, amongst others, Turbo Fruits, the wonderful Felice Brothers, Amy Cook, Dylan LeBlanc, Blake Mills and Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons. Check out a couple of our choices from it below: the scruffy, skuzzy garage rock and fiery hooks of Fly Golden Eagle and Natural Child’s hybrid stew of surf rock … Continue reading Free September Mix From American Songwriter
Our best of August mix is ready and even though it is typically a slightly quieter month for new releases, we can still offer you more than 20 cracking new tunes together with a few ‘hot off the press’ new ones. The result? A brilliant mix to keep you going as we enter autumn (aka the fall for our American friends). Either way, just enjoy. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: August 2012
The Delta Routine are set to release their third full-length album Cigarettes & Caffeine Nightmares this autumn. On it the Milwaukee quintet taps directly into the jugular of early rock-n-roll; distilling the raw, impassioned power and updating it for a younger generation. The eleven tracks traverse through a number of genres, such as garage, power-pop, punk, classic rock and even a bit of earthy Americana … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Delta Routine
We first featured the lo-fi, bluesy rock of The Graveyard Kids as part of a post about ten Bandcamp treasures. They have now made a seven track album titled My Only Company available for free download – apparently it started out as a collection of acoustic, lo-fi garage recordings and is now something altogether more powerful and instinctive. Check out lead track Staircase Blues below … Continue reading MM Shorts 213: Graveyard Kids
Silkies hail from Austin Texas and deal in a sweet blend of garage pop spanning a number of influences, especially riot grrrl bands, 60s girl groups and not a little of that surf-tinged garage stuff going on today. They recorded their first single, Like One, a few days ago – it is available for a pay what you want deal below. a Continue reading Introducing >>> Silkies
Hot on the heels of our previous Insound mixtape post comes another – this time it is their latest Vinyl mixtape. Available to all their newsletter subscribers (you just need to exchange an e-mail address, a tweet or Facebook like), the sampler is full of great tracks from Chris Cohen, Cult of Youth, Ex Vivian, Eternal Summers, Kisses, Levek, METZ, The Helio Sequence, and Young Guv … Continue reading MM Shorts 207: Yet Another Insound Mixtape
Here are six crackerjack new tunes for you. No messing – everyone a winner! Kicking us off in fine style are the reverb loving, fuzzed up, drone psych specialists Moon Duo with Sleepwalker from the upcoming Circles long player, and the Wavves contribution to the Adult Swim Singles Programme, Hippies Is Punks. We have some stunning, woozy, heroin-pop brilliance in the shape of the Lollipops, which comes from … Continue reading Wednesday Means Six of the Best
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