It is true to say that our first visit to the End of the Road Festival last year was without doubt the best music event (bar SxSW) we had ever attended. A superb line-up, brilliant layout, and festival goers who were there for the music rather than the ‘experience’ ensured three days of superb entertainment. It meant we bought tickets immediately they went on sale … Continue reading The End of The Road Festival: A Review
Last month we posted about the excellent new EP from Sissy & The Blisters titled Let Her Go. Here is the video for the title track, and take a listen to another song from the EP, Got No Home. a a Continue reading Sissy & The Blisters Video
We’ve already given you Cheers To The Years from raucous, party good-timers Turf War from their debut album Years of Living Dangerously, which is out on October 18th. To keep up momentum here is the equally enjoyable Summertime Booze, just in time for the end of those long summer nights. Party on. Download Turf War – Summertime Booze mp3 (from Years Of Living Dangerously) Download Turf … Continue reading More From Turf War
Today Barry-Sean and I head off, pop up tents in tow, to the marvellous End of the Road festival in lovely Dorset. Once again sold out, last year’s inaugural trip turned into the best festival visit we’ve ever had, and we’re looking forward to more of the same over the next few days. Even the weather forecast is good! Once again we have a huge … Continue reading Free End of the Road Festival Mix
Our usual round up of the very best of our August posts and some new tracks too. Dip in – every one a winner as they say. Download The Cabin Dogs – High Falls mp3 (from Midnight Trail) Invites you to kick off your boots, pour a stiff one and sit on the porch to watch the sun go down – a song for when you’re busy … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: August 2011
Despite hailing from Worcestershire, a rural heartland of ours, Something Men bring something altogether more grimy and salacious to the party. Effortlessly channeling early Velvets rumble and the simple, but effective chord sequences of the Kingsmen into a classic garage sound that reveals a knack for authentic and high quality songwriting, the band’s debut single straddles the 60s and the modern-day with equal measures of swagger, verve … Continue reading Introducing…Something Men
Sex Beet are a band from London who have spent the past year touring Europe and America with bands such as Best Coast, Strange Boys, Thee Oh See’s, Wavves, and The Black Lips. They’re due to be recording their debut album with King Khan in the next couple of months. They are shortly going back out on tour and have sent round this track, Dreams, a demo from … Continue reading New Song From Sex Beet
The tunes are coming thick and fast again at the moment and keeping up is proving almost impossible. Here are a few of the tracks from the web and our inbox that have caught our ears over the past few days. First up Okkervil River who are riding high on the critical acclaim for the release of their latest full-length album I Am Very Far. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Regular Round Up
Sissy & The Blisters specialise in melding the sounds of lo-fi beat groups and vintage garage bands into turbo charged, thrilling short sharp shocks. We were very taken with recent single We Are The Others and new EP Let Her Go builds on that promise to give five tracks (all of less than three minutes), of post-punk blasts that recall The Cramps jamming with Black Lips. The … Continue reading Introducing…Sissy & The Blisters
Wicked Will is the fifth studio album from The Ettes and came out at the start of the month. It is another excellent excursion into the realms of beat-punk and garage sleaze with a healthy dose back porch blues swagger and fuzzed up reverb. Much to like then. Check out this taster from the album, which you can get it from eMusic here. Download The … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Ettes
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