We posted a couple of times last autumn about good time garage rockers Turf War and their rowdy debut album Years of Living Dangerously and now they will be heading out on tour (with fellow MM Faves The Boom Bang) in support of the record. To mark the occasion they have made available this typically raucous cover of the Creedence classic, Bad Moon Rising. Download Turf … Continue reading Turf War Cover Bad Moon Rising
Time for another swift round-up of some of the best tunes into our in-box and from around our favourite music blogs. A little while ago we posted the video for Shrouded Strangers excellent track Featherbed, and now we have the mp3 for you as well. We also have the full-on power pop of Fort Lean and their new single Sunsick, some Swedish punk from new … Continue reading Sunday Means Eight Of The Best
Dig Your Grave is the title of a new 7″ EP from The Pharmacy which is as good an example of indie-pop-garage bliss as you’ll find. We included the title track in our January Best of the Month mix. Here is the equally good video for it – a super 8 mess of violence, fire and (what else) graveyards. a Buy it here. Or limited … Continue reading MM Shorts 93: The Pharmacy Video
If forthcoming debut album No Expiration Date is anything to go by, The Forty Nineteens are up for a good time. A hellishly good time. The record is one of unashamed raucous enjoyment, of high energy, old fashioned motor city rock ‘n’ roll and nothing demonstrates it better than our taster track Turn It Around. Take influences such as The Ramones, Elvis Costello, The Stooges, … Continue reading Introducing…The Forty Nineteens
Here are the best of our January posts together with a few tasty new tracks. All in all nearly forty great tunes compiled and neatly presented in one lovely mix. As always, don’t forget to check out all our previous monthly mixes listed in the sidebar on the left. Download Night Genes – Soaring Through The Chromosomes mp3 (from Like The Blood) Infectiously catchy, military folk stomp. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2012
Eux Autres write smart, infectious garage-pop imbued with indie jangle, a bit of cool French pop and gorgeous boy/girl vocals. In fact, just close your eyes and imagine if you will, the Field Mice meeting Black Flag at a Françoise Hardy show. The songs they’d be humming together on the drive home might sound something like Eux Autres. Although they have been around since 2003, we … Continue reading New EP From Eux Autres
Shrouded Strangers have just leapt to the top of our New Discoveries Most Anticipated List (if we actually had one that is), but no matter, this is the video to skuzzy slacker anthem Featherbed, a glorious amalgam of surf guitars, krautrock rhythms and fuzzed up hillbilly stomp. Just brilliant. It comes from new album Forever Lost which is described as a collection of disembodied pop … Continue reading MM Shorts 86: Shrouded Strangers Video
The Ex-Girlfriends Club specialise in the sleazy blues-punk riffs so beloved of the Stooges, the glam rock attitude that so defined late-era T-Rex, and the garage rock rawness that heralded trailblazers The Seeds. The result is a incendiary mix of distortion, proto-punk and voodoo blues that manifests itself perfectly in the primal stomp of their cover of the Sonics classic The Witch, being the first single and a … Continue reading The Ex-Girlfriends Club Prep Debut Album
New Jersey indie-punks The Static Jacks will release their debut album If You’re Young in the UK through Fearless Records on March 5th. This release will be preceded by a full UK tour beginning February 15th, including dates with The Wombats. First listen indicates a hard-edged and riotous album, relentlessly energetic with infectious proving to be perhaps the best consistent adjective for the record as a whole. It has big … Continue reading Introducing…The Static Jacks
We’re thoroughly enjoying this from Brooklyn four-piece Fast Years who formed as recently as the Spring of 2011. The band plays a mix of 80s Punk, surf pop, and classic garage, with influences ranging from The Sonics to The Exploding Hearts. They’ve had an online presence for all of 15 days now, including a free giveaway of lead track Young Heart, but their impact has … Continue reading MM Shorts 78: Fast Years
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