Yours Until the Bitter End is The Bloody Hollies‘ follow-up to the highly praised Who to Trust, Who to Kill, Who to Love which was released in 2007 on Alive Naturalsound. Recognised for their murder-themed blues/rock anthems that remind listeners of the ’60s and ’70s golden age of rock & roll, the new album still embraces the dark side of raw garage punk, but comes armed with a more … Continue reading New Album From The Bloody Hollies
We’ve posted a couple of times about the frenzied garage rock of Pet Scenes. The good news is they’ve just uploaded four new demos under the banner Idle Children to their Soundcloud page here. Amongst them is this tasty little number…called, er, Taste. a Continue reading MM Shorts 4: Pet Scenes
Another bonanza month of top tunes, all rounded up for you in one perfect download mix. Here are the September highlights together, as always, with a couple of top-notch new tracks too. Download The Migrant – The Hurricane mp3 (from Amerika) Distinguished by a slow blues refrain, handclaps and a mournful vocal, it is one of those tunes that sounds like it has been around forever. Download … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: September 2011
Really enjoying the new single of fuzzed out garage goodness from Bleached. You Take Time is the ultra-catchy b-side to their Carter 7″. Vinyl available from Art Fag Records. Download Bleached – You Take Time mp3 (from Carter 7″) Continue reading MM Shorts 1: Bleached Take Time
Hot on the heels of the superb George Harrison cover disk from Mojo magazine comes Uncut magazine’s Brian Wilson tribute. Rather than cover versions, it has collected together a group of tracks from bands that can all tip their hat to the influence of Mr Wilson. Artists include Panda Bear, Sufjan Stevens, Gruff Rhys, Volcano Choir, Girls and Caribou among others, and here are two … Continue reading Excellent Uncut Cover Disk
We’ve shared tracks from party garage surf rockers The Boom Bang on MM a couple of times and this the video for their track Vietnomnomnom from their World War Fun album through Nice People Records. Check out some previous downloads from the band below too. a Download The Boom Bang – Tobacula mp3 (from World War Fun) Download The Boom Bang – Run Way Away mp3 (from Bummer Camp EP) Download … Continue reading New Video From The Boom Bang
The Beets inhabit the rawer end of the garage rock spectrum and will release a new album on Hardly Art next month (October 24th) titled Let The Poison Out. This is taken from it, the primal, lo-fi goodness of Doing As I Do. Pre-order from the label here. Download The Beets – Doing As I Do mp3 (from Let The Poison Out) Continue reading New Album From The Beets
While I was at the End of the Road Festival I picked up a cheap (and thoroughly enjoyable) early CD by Thee Oh Sees in the Rough Trade tent sale. I’m not sure what relevance that has to this, their new track, Carrion Crawler from their forthcoming record Carrion Crawler / The Dream out on In The Red Records other than this is also thoroughly enjoyable … Continue reading New From Thee Oh Sees
So much to catch up on…here’s a few tracks to tickle the earbuds. Veteran noisemongering indie rockers Comet Gain have given us another track from their excellent album Howl Of The Lonely Crowd, this time it is the marvellously titled Clang Of The Concrete Swans. Download Comet Gain – Clang Of The Concrete Swans mp3 (from Howl Of The Lonely Crowd) Acid Baby Jesus deliver … Continue reading Round-Up Time
Fresh from seeing him wow the crowds at the weekend, and hot on the heels of yesterday’s End of the Road review, comes a new track from Kurt Vile. The Creature comes from a new EP So Outta Reach, which will also contain a cover of Springsteen’s Downbound Train. The EP will also be released as part of a deluxe edition of Smoke Ring For My Halo. … Continue reading New From Kurt Vile
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