One of MM’s favourite labels, Woodsist, release a compilation on 20th July called Welcome Home Diggin’ the Universe: A Woodsist Compilation. It will only be available on LP and cassette only, without seemingly a download option, and will feature new tracks from many of the top notch acts on their roster including The Woods, Ducktails, Alex Bleeker, The Fresh & Onlys, Moon Duo, and others. Bar … Continue reading New Woodsist Compilation Looks Good
From Belfast, Girls Names could perhaps be considered as the UK’s spirited answer to all those surf-rock, lo-fi garage obsessed bands from the US that are proving so popular at the moment. But let’s not kid ourselves – that is some stiff competition to live up to and thankfully with their four track self titled EP from Captured Tracks they’ve more than risen to the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Girls Names
At the beginning of this month we posted the excellent b-side to the new single from The Cloud Nothings. The single Didn’t You is out today on Old Flame and now you can get that too with a simple click of your mouse below. It’s a cleaner sound, but still packed full of hooks and shot through with that punk arrogance that we like so … Continue reading Cloud Nothings New Single
We loved Electric Tickle Machine’s debut album, 2009’s Blew It Again. Originally out on vinyl, it will finally see a wide release on their own Science Diction Records next Tuesday the 29th. They also have a new video for one of the album’s standout tracks Bones – you can watch it below and then download a couple of tracks of loud, fast, snotty rock’n’roll including Gimme … Continue reading New video from Electric Tickle Machine
Coasting is a Brooklyn duo (Madison & Fiona) that are starting to generate quite a bit of interest amongst the indie-cool and even the not-so-cool like us. We first heard them via the Friendship Bracelet series and now they have a debut triple A sided 7″ available via M’Lady’s Records. Part lo-fi garage, part sweet harmonies and part early 80s New Wave, check out Kids … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Coasting
We Are Country Mice released a couple of 7″ singles last year, one of which, the EP Make Your Own Damn Fun featured one of our top songs of 2009 in the stomping, infectious A Good Old Fashioned Barn Raising. So we have been waiting eagerly to see what they would be doing next. And now we know – it will be a limited edition cassette … Continue reading New from We Are Country Mice
Last week we posted about the Adult Swim Singles Project and gave you the fourth in the weekly series of eight from Washed Out. The fifth is now doing the rounds and Before You Judge Me is a typically swaggering, boozy cut of garage rock from The Black Lips. Visit Black Lips MySpace here. Download The Black Lips – Before You Judge Me mp3 (from … Continue reading New from the Black Lips
We came across The Real Burnouts Fully Involved EP as a free download (amongst many others) at the excellent Quixodelic Records. The band play a woozy, insistent blend of garage and psychedelic rock that is the equal of anything else we’ve heard in recent times – and there’s some serious competition out there. There are echoes of everything from krautrock to The Monkees to Spacemen 3 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Real Burnouts
It’s hard keeping up with all the new releases and good stuff that is coming our way. Here is a quick and dirty round-up of some of the tracks that have been tickling our ears recently. The Sandwitches have been MM faves ever since we got hold of their excellent How To Make Ambient Sadcake album last year. They now have a new one-sided 12″ … Continue reading MM’s Weekend Round Up
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