Birmingham quartet Swampmeat Family Band have announced their new album Muck! will see a release on the 5th June on vinyl and digital formats. Expert purveyors of a blend of uptempo garage rock and gentle Americana, which they meld it into a lush, cinematic whole, the new record sees them adding new layers and fresh flourishes to their trademark sound. Listen to a couple of tracks … Continue reading Swampmeat Family Band – Muck!
Chemtrails will release new album The Peculiar Smell Of The Inevitable on the 15th May via Pnkslm. It promises to be the band’s heaviest and wildest record yet, with their trademark big melodies and harmonies performed over a frenzied wall of raw guitar noise and glistening synths. Check out the excellent Suck My Mind, a frenzied gem of infectious garage-punk and acid-corroded new-wave. Order the … Continue reading Chemtrails – Suck My Mind
First up – great name! Harmonica Lewinski, are a five piece band out of Rochester NY. They say their sound has been described as “Tropical trash, greasy garage, dirty disco and party punk“. They have a new album titled Human BBQ! consisting of nine tasty tracks slathered in a kind of twisted, lo-fi psych-surf-pop that is 100% guaranteed to put a smile on your face and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Harmonica Lewinski
We’ve long been fans of Birmingham based garage rock trio Table Scraps and they are featured with a new song I Wanna Stay Home With U on Burger Records new compilation QUARANTUNES: Songs From Self-Isolation #2. It is the second in a seven volume series featuring over 140 different artists with all songs written and recorded by the artists over the past three weeks. All funds from sales … Continue reading Table Scraps on latest Burger Records Quarantunes Compilation
Around every four years or so we seem to feature the duo Ancient Whales and so, following posts in 2012 and 2016, it seems only right and proper to share their excellent new track Giving with you. It is taken from their upcoming long player Vestiges of Tails Appear In All Of Us, which seems to have been a long delayed release, but no matter as … Continue reading Ancient Whales – Giving
Antarctica is the new album from Flat Worms and is released tomorrow. If these two brilliant tracks are anything to go by the band are making good on their promise to have hardened their post-punk/psych sound even further. Check out the coiled spring tension and raw rumble of The Aughts and the hypnotic pummel and killer riff of Market Forces. Great stuff. Buy the album … Continue reading Flat Worms – Antarctica
The madcap, psychedelic punk thrash of the Lovely Eggs is back on the turntable with a new, typically uncompromising long-player, I Am Moron. It mostly crams twelve insanely hectic, and utterly infectious tracks into just under 40 minutes of warped humour, biting satire and lo-fi anarchy – there is a brief pause for some dream-pop, a smattering of surfy guitars – but overall it is … Continue reading Lovely Eggs – I Am Moron
LA’s ultra reliable psych-warriors The Warlocks have released a new album, The Chain which, over the course of ten densely layered guitar tracks spiced with keyboards and reinforced with powerful bass and percussion grooves, tells the story of two star-crossed lovers who commit a bank heist together. The band’s Bobby Hecksher describes it as “based around “a Bonnie & Clyde-ish twenty-something couple who rob a bank but get … Continue reading The Warlocks – The Chain
Raw Texas duo The Ghost Wolves consists of husband and wife, drummer/vocalist Jonny and vocalist/guitarist Carley Wolf. Their sound is a fusion of punk, rock ‘n’ roll, garage punk, and blues with an equally ripe appetite for electronic imagination. Like the bastard child of The Cramps and The Ramones, latest (unhinged) release is Let’s Go To Mars backed with Last Man. Stream both here and … Continue reading New Single from Ghost Wolves
The garage-psych roar of Portugal’s Sunflowers has been a favourite discovery of ours since we happened across long player Castle Spell a couple of years ago. We’ve been waiting for new album Endless Voyage ever since we shared Dreamweaver from it at the backend of last year, which also made it into our 2019 Best of lists. The record is out now and can be purchased from … Continue reading Sunflowers Release Endless Voyage
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