This is the new single from LA based The Sweaters, titled Can’t Stop Winnin’, it will be released on White Iris Records. The quartet grooves around with bent sounds, thick harmonies, and vocals with energy second to none (that kick-in at about 1:30 into the track) and combine to make a syrupy garage gem. It’s upbeat and has as much soul as it does jangle and … Continue reading These are Sweaters you’ll actually want for Christmas…
To celebrate our lovely WordPress snowflakes (which are making Mrs M and Polly Pocket quite happy) and will take you through to Christmas and beyond, here is a free Christmas song from The Boom Bang. In case you missed them when we posted about their debut Bummer Camp EP, they’re a bunch of garage rock devotees playing fuzzy, reverb laden rock ‘n’ roll with added … Continue reading Christmas is coming…according to The Boom Bang
Here is the best of our November posts, a perfect mix tape to kick off the festive seasons and a nice reminder before we all get immersed in all those end-of-year top tens/twenties/fifties etc. And as always a couple of new ones too. Twenty five great tracks. Enjoy. Download Outer Minds – Until You’re Dead mp3 Pristine nugget of 60s inspired garage rock, twangy rough-cut … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: November
Here again is a short round-up of some of the better new releases we’ve come across recently. Once again, they all deserve more in the way of a narrative, but time can be a hard taskmaster on occasion. First up is the rather strangely named EP’s Trailer Park and their strangely compelling folk song tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa – this year’s Nobel Laureate in … Continue reading New Releases Round Up
Like Iowa from our earlier post today, My Disco hail from Melbourne. Like Iowa, My Disco like to shred their sound into a dark, pummelling tribal noise. There is certainly no nod to the glitter balls, falsetto vocals or anything else we would associate with disco…. Their new album (their third) Little Joy will get a worldwide release early in 2011, and the tracks we’ve … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…My Disco
It seems appropriate on the first day of the new Ashes series to start the day with a butt-kicking band from down under. And despite the geographical name, Iowa, for it is they, hail from the fertile breeding grounds of Melbourne’s alternative music scene. Seemingly begat from the loins of sonic forefathers like J&MC, Sonic Youth, or even Mrs M’s old favourites Ride – they easily and … Continue reading Introducing…Iowa
Too much sauce last night? Need a Sunday morning hangover cure? Try some high octane garage rock ‘n’roll from Aussies Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, brash and sneering and just right to pound that headache into submission. Rejected comes from their new Para Vista Social Club album telling stories of dead end jobs and broken relationships. Hair of the dog anyone? Download Scott & Charlene’s Wedding … Continue reading Introducing…Scott & Charlene’s Wedding
Keeping our Buffalo theme for the day going, Young Buffalo are an altogether different proposition to White Buffalo. This Oxford, Mississippi trio mix everything from tribal rhythms to southern R&B – sometimes shuffling along, sometimes jet propelled. It is exuberant, good natured, and what we’d call ‘sunny-side up” music. Watch the video for the excellent New Beat below and download a couple of tracks in … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Young Buffalo
London based blog Music Mule is taking the step from virtual to physical with the release of its debut record, a 300-limited-edition pressing of a quadruple A-side split 7″ from Brooklyn’s Dinosaur Feathers and Atlanta, Georgia’s Carnivores. Tropical flavoured garage punk outfit Carnivores have just released their second album If I’m Ancient through Double Phantom in The States. Parent’s Attic is lifted from that record … Continue reading Carnivores / Dinosaur Feathers New Split 7′
Underwater Peoples is one of our favourite labels and so we were delighted to recently receive an e- mail from them about Spectrals and their forthcoming new EP. Hailing from the small town of Heckmondwike, 10 miles south-west from Leeds, Louis Jones is softly spoken with a shock of ginger hair. He was brought up on a mixture of soul, Motown and doo-wop, and as … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Spectrals
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