Irish garage punks Otherkin were a most enjoyable discovery at the Great Escape last year, and after the success of the 201 EP and it’s successor The New Vice EP the four-piece are back with their first single of 2017, Bad Advice. It is the lead track from their upcoming debut album and cements their reputation for furious, old fashioned, punk rock. Have a listen. Continue reading Otherkin – Bad Advice
Atlanta garage punk ensemble and MM faves The Coathangers have announced a new EP, Parasite and shared the first track from it Captain’s Dead, with its sultry verses, triumphant chorus, and a bombastic freak-out of noisy guitar. Best of all the band are playing some live shows in the UK, including our local town Oxford – it seems miracles can still happen. Anyway, stream the single … Continue reading The Coathangers – Captain’s Dead
Part two of our weekly round up of the best tracks from the past seven days kicks off with another fine track from Laura Marling’s new album, and an excellent new single from The Districts. We have another brash slab of riotous rock from Charly Bliss and something equally propulsive from Hiccup (should keep the indie kids happy). Trance Farmers slow things down with their ominous new single, while Cotillon’s new track … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 2)
Once again some cracking tuneage for you today in Part 1 of our regular weekly round-up of some of the best new releases. We are ultra excited by the return of Justin Townes Earle and Champagne Corolla, which comes from forthcoming album Kids In The Street, T. Hardy Morris who has shared a new track NY and Sharon Van Etten who reimagines the Skeeter Davis track End … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
LA’s The Buttertones play raucous mid-western garage by way of The Sonics and Thee Oh Sees, fronted by your favourite b-movie anti-hero with the rockabilly stomp of The Cramps washed down with a whisky chaser. In short, they’re the sleaze of Hollywood condensed into 120 seconds. Watch the video for the excellent Sadie’s A Sadist, and then stream the fast and furious, 60s tinged A … Continue reading MM Shorts 926: The Buttertones
Belgian garage-punk foursome Mind Rays have been shredding MM speakers lately with tracks from upcoming LP Nerve Endings (out on 24th March, via PNKSLM – order here). They keep up the good work with Trespass, the latest track to be shared from it. Stream it, nice and loud, below. Continue reading Mind Rays – Trespass
Mining a rich seam running from 60s inspired garage punk to the gothic voodoo of the Cramps, by way of some trashy, swamp blues come Long Beach, California three-piece The Thingz. Latest release Vault of Tomorrow is eleven tracks clocking in at around twenty five minutes and is a blast from start to finish. Have a listen to the staccato, clattering opener Black Dust, the twangy, menacing Gospel Swamp, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Thingz
Here we are again, but with lighter nights, spring flowers beginning to bloom and eight songs from the past week rounded up for your listening pleasure. From a new benefit single for the Southern Poverty Law Center, we have wonderfully spectral folk from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and some equally wonderful psych-folk from a re-issue of a long-lost 70s classic by Philip Lewin. There is a … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Fixed Focus is the debut album from Saint Pé (Ian Saint Pé, longtime Black Lips and Diamond Rugs guitarist). After moving to Nashville, he settled down in a log cabin formerly owned by country legend Roy Acuff, which is where the record was born. it maintains all the hooks and pop sensibilities of his previous acts, while refining them with a bit of Nashville class and a … Continue reading MM Shorts 922: Saint Pé
With a distinctly lo-fi sound and DIY aesthetic that starkly contrasts with the regular image of Scandinavian music, Sweden’s ShitKid, aka 24-year-old Stockholm based Åsa Söderqvist, returns with a new release EP 2, and a new single Sugar Town. Probably the best thing she’s done to date with its garage pop swagger and catchy refrain, you can listen to the single below, and pre-order the … Continue reading ShitKid – Sugartown
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