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Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January

Here is our regular round up of the best of January’s posts plus a couple of new tracks for your listening pleasure – all beautifully designed to make one perfect mixtape. Download Wooden Wand – The DNR Waltz mp3 More classic down-tempo folk from greatly underrated MM fave. Download Phosphorescent – Are You Ready For The Country? mp3 Riff-heavy, mean-assed cover which brilliantly captures the double-edged viciousness … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January

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The Kills Are Back

The Kills have long been one of our most favourite bands here at MM, and Fried My Little Brains would definitely still rank near the top of my hypothetical “favourite songs of all time” list that we all carry around in our heads. So after a too-long hiatus, we’re delighted that they’re back with a new album, Blood Pressures, released on Domino Records, which is scheduled … Continue reading The Kills Are Back

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MM’s Video Update

Here are a few of the better/more interesting videos that have found our way into the in-box recently. First up are The Whigs, a band we’ve posted about a few times. This is the band keeping it simple in their self-directed video for So Lonely from current album In The Dark. Rodeo Massacre are a Swedish/French band in thrall to the sixties garage scene and … Continue reading MM’s Video Update

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Let’s Go Garage…

Here are three gems of garage rock/punk/pop joy for you, especially designed to brighten up a drab and dreary January Sunday. We’ve posted about the Mind Spiders and the Thick Shakes before. Both play a wonderfully uncluttered, joyous form of proto garage-rock that is simple, unaffected and damn catchy. We have a track from the forthcoming Mind Spiders self-titled album and the Thick Shakes new … Continue reading Let’s Go Garage…

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Obits ready Moody Standard And Poor for release

Here are some (sketchy) detail about the new record from Obits. It’s their second full-length, and it’s called Moody, Standard and Poor. It was recorded at Brooklyn’s Saltlands Studio. Sub Pop will release it on March 29, 2011. The wonderful sleazy, rockabilly rumble of Two-Headed Coin from their 2009 debut I Blame You made our top-ten of that year. You Gotta Lose, the taster from the … Continue reading Obits ready Moody Standard And Poor for release

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Latest Releases: Round Up

Despite not being half way through January yet, we’re already being overwhelmed with good stuff to share. So in a typical ‘blogger’s cheat’, here is a round-up of some of the excellent songs that have come our way and deserve far more than the arbitrary couple of lines we’re giving them. First up is the welcome return of Pete & The Pirates who made their … Continue reading Latest Releases: Round Up

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Kurt Vile offers up track from new album

It is fair to say that Kurt Vile’s forthcoming album Smoke Ring For My Halo is one of most eagerly anticipated new releases for the first part of 2011. Jesus Fever is a tasty aperitif for the album proper. It is out on the 8th March and you can pre-order via Matador here. Download Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever mp3 (from Smoke Ring For My … Continue reading Kurt Vile offers up track from new album

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New from Secret Colours

Secret Colours could very easily have made it onto our list best new discoveries of 2010 with their wonderfully authentic brand of 60s tinged psychedelia and modern krautrock. In the wake of the band’s continuing success in their native Chicago and elsewhere from last August’s eponymous debut, the band are continuing their single series with Follow The Drone. This follows on from their crazy re-interpretation … Continue reading New from Secret Colours

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…We Are Hex

The Indianapolis quartet We Are Hex have been quite busy these last few months: releasing their acclaimed sophomore album Hail The Goer on (My Old Kentucky Blog’s) Roaring Colonel Records, and touring like crazy to promote it. The band has released a new video for their song We Are The Goer (found on Hail The Goer). The video was directed by Nathan Karamanski, and can … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…We Are Hex

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Introducing…Lubec

Lubec comes out swinging with a growling sonic left hook that floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee on new EP Nothing is Enough!, coming out on 18th January. Gritty wall of sound guitar blasts mesh with crystalline melodies, recalling Black Tambourine, JAMC, and Clouds Taste Metallic-era Flaming Lips. No sir, this isn’t the beach vibes happy times type gig that’s been repeated … Continue reading Introducing…Lubec

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