Detroit-based girl group Shadow Show take elements of 60s garage-psych, 21st-century modern pop-art and some good old fashioned indie attitude and combine it into one heady brew all of their own. Their full-length debut album Silhouettes will be available on 14th February via Stolen Body Records in the UK and Europe and Burger Records in the US and rest of the world. Stream Charades from it … Continue reading Introducing >>> Shadow Show
Just picked this up off our Soundcloud feed (which is pretty crappy nowadays so God knows what they’ve done to it). Anyway, stalwart Atlanta based underground garage rockers Black Lips will release new album Sing… in a World that’s Falling Apart via Fire Records at the end of this week. We’re told the twelve-song collection marks the quintet’s most pronounced dalliance with country music yet, … Continue reading Black Lips – Rumbler
Chris T Popper has been with MM from the very first post. Every year he produces his own list of favourite tunes and here are his selections for 2019. This year he was helped by Stan the greyhound. Next year I’m hoping we get Stan’s choices… 10. She Keeps Bees – Kinship Never got bored of that opening drum groove. Backed up by Jessica … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best of 2019: Chris T Popper’s Top Ten Tunes
And here we have the final part of our favourite tunes of 2019… Discover and enjoy. 25 UV Race – Mr Blame A brash, unapologetic race through proto-punk stomp and malodorous glam-punk aesthetics. 24 Lonesome Shack – The City is a Desert Anchored by an insistent country blues refrain that has a touch of something primal about it, and sounds like it could … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Songs of 2019 (Part 3)
50 Sleaford Mods – O.B.C.T 49 Deliluh – Freeloader Feast 48 The Paranoyds – Hungry Sam 47 Cherry Pickles – Lily Is A Spy 46 The Warlocks – Disfigured Figure 45 Silverbacks – Pink Tide 44 Marika Hackman – The One 43 Lonesome Shack – Too Bad 42 FEWS – Anything Else 41 Darrin Bradbury … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Songs of 2019 (Part 2)
We’ve decided to do things a bit differently this year – too many times in the past we’ve posted our favourite songs of the year and then discovered late releases we wished we’d added! And also 2019 was a shit year for the world – Brexit, Johnson, Trump, the world burning… at least there is music. So, way after everyone else has done theirs, here … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Songs of 2019 (Part 1)
We missed this at the tail end of last year, but Bristol’s new five piece Birdman Cult peddle a very nice line in scorching riffs and bone shaking percussion on recent single Snakes. It is a fuzzy gem of sweaty rock ‘n’ roll that stomps a line somewhere between the black clad doom of BMRC and the voodoo rock of the Cramps. Watch the video / … Continue reading Introducing >>> Birdman Cult
Scuzzy garage-punk London four-piece Nothingheads have released their ferocious new single Cockroach 2051. The unhinged and epically heavy track follows recent release Topsy, and recalls the likes of The Jesus Lizard and The Membranes. The band tell us that “the idea for Cockroach 2051 all came from a film called The Very Brief Life of an Ember. A load of street kids takeover Manila in … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Nothingheads
Sometimes you get an email from a band that already pretty much sums up everything we might want to say about a record in a couple of brilliant sentences. Deeside’s Chupa Cabra is a perfect case in point. First, they describe their music as “nauseating, salivating, hypnotizing, no good sucker-punch-piss-yourself polystyrene agitator Blues“. Nice! And they go on to describe their new single Violent Urges … Continue reading Introducing >>> Chupa Cabra
Human Touch is the new single from Nottingham duo Whisky Stain. A lean howl of squalor and heartache, the track adds a soupçon of tenderness to an otherwise raw and visceral punch to the guts – file somewhere near BRMC, Royal Trux and Death From Above 1979. Stream it below, or watch the single’s video – an emotive study of sexuality, violence, stigma and healing. Buy … Continue reading Introducing >>> Whisky Stain
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