As well as being a cult Basketball player (apparently the second smallest in history to the brilliantly named 5′ 3″ Muggsy Bogues), Earl Boykins are a New York band whose debut release Friends sees the light of day on the 25th March. To keep us going ’til then we have Doves, two and three quarter minutes of fuzzy, buzzsaw guitar, reverb, distortion, and all round … Continue reading MM Shorts 516: Earl Boykins
A few very choice tunes have come our way recently and which for one reason or another we’ve been slow to post them. So here is a quick and dirty round up of some of them! First up the very welcome return of the wonderful Pink Mountaintops and the first taste from their forthcoming album Get Back. We also have the brilliant Bass Drum Of … Continue reading Round Up Time
Our first collection of free downloads from the new year taken from the best of our posts for January. Twenty tracks to tickle your fancy including, as always, a few new ones. Dig in. The Woodgrains – Nobody Too Lysergic folk-rock anchored by three part harmonies and an instinctive feel for classic songwriting. . The Rebel Set – Monster Vintage crash and snarl – a … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2014
Rhubarb is a superior fruit and unquestionably makes the best crumble filling. Four-piece The Rhubarb Triangle thankfully live up to the quality inherent in the fruit’s name with their original take on indie rock, psychedelia, garage and R&B. Their self-titled debut three track EP is a most promising mix of 60s Carnaby Street cool, Northern soul style groove and a splash of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Rhubarb Triangle
Short Drive with a Kidnapper is the first video from Grandhorse’s Debut LP Portraiturefolio. According to Grandhorse drummer Devon Shirley, “‘Short Drive with A Kidnapper’ is what happens when you put Ben Meyercord, weird friends in costumes, lots of cheap beer, a fog machine, a ginger and a Russian video editor together. Magical.” Portraiturefolio is an album of straight-ahead songs built around venerable pop conventions. The … Continue reading Introducing >>> Grandhorse
San Diego four-piece Champ play punchy garage rock that owes more to punk and grunge than it does psych or power pop – Wavves or FIDLAR are good touchpoints. However, there is a distinct desire to experiment a little more than is common, pushing boundaries a little further than usual, and machete their way determinedly into the shadowier side of sunny California. The results are … Continue reading Introducing >>> Champ
Sun Blood Stories are a psych-rock band from Boise, Idaho who embed a healthy dose of garage rock and soul into their music and put their line in the sand somewhere near the primal, hypnotic end of the spectrum. We’ve previously featured them in one of our Videos of the Day posts and now we have a free download of a rather tasty track, Desert For Days … Continue reading MM Shorts 511: Sun Blood Stories
Suck My Shirt is the rather intriguing title of the scheduled new album from The Coathangers who featured prominently in our Best Tracks of 2013 lists with their excellent single Adderall. For this latest record (their fourth long-player), the quartet have reduced to a trio and lost their keyboards. However, the sassy, infectious attitude remains the same as demonstrated by the first taste, and album … Continue reading The Coathangers – Suck My Shirt
Despite the slightly suspect name, Tweens sit just the right side of precocious with their bratty, lo-fi garage rock jams that swirl the Ramones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bay Area punks The Donnas, The Trashwomen and the Bobbyteens into one righteous slab of thrash-tinged trash-pop. Check out Be Mean below, they will release their self-titled debut in early April. . Continue reading MM Shorts 509: Tweens
Start the week with videos to contrast and compare from Big Harp, Future History, Drenge and Young Aviators. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Big Harp || Future History || Drenge || Young Aviators
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