Today we have videos from Coves and their film to accompany excellent new single Cast A Shadow, we have epic melancholy pop from Longfellow, the flickering indie guitar pop of Cumulus, and to finish a lovely animation from Heart Of A Dog. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Coves || Longfellow || Cumulus || Heart Of A Dog
Black Manila have returned with an new four track EP titled Beach Parade that is available on a Bandcamp name-your-price deal. We have been longstanding fans of their mix of proto-garage punk, blues and psych rock, and all are showcased to good effect once more on this excellent collection. You can watch the video for the surf-infused title track below and also stream/download the fantastic … Continue reading Black Manila – Beach Parade EP
Having given you the excellent Sinking Feeling at the very tail end of 2013, here is another track from Gorgeous Bully’s EP of misery, loneliness and self-loathing, Nobody Hates You As Much As You Hate Yourself, out via the Art Is Hard label. Now we have the garagey Couldn’t Keep It To Myself for your guaranteed listening pleasure. . Continue reading More From Gorgeous Bully
Check out the glittering garage-punk sonics of new single, Don’t You Start, from Sleepy Kitty. It is taken from the St Louis based duo’s sophomore album, Projection Room, due January 14 via Euclid Records. Continue reading MM Shorts 499: Sleepy Kitty
Having appeared on MM back in July of 2012, Clear Plastic Masks have recently released their debut self-titled EP via Dine Alone and Serpents & Snakes Records. Take a listen to Baby Come On, and reacquaint yourself with their high octane, bluesy, reverb drenched rock’n’roll. Buy the EP via Bandcamp here. Continue reading MM Shorts 498: Clear Plastic Masks
As you might expect, December is a quiet month for new releases, especially non-festive ones, but we’ve still managed to come up with a mix of 16 top-notch downloads for you from our monthly postings. As always, we have a couple of new tracks too, and you can also check out our new monthly mix page here, that has every single monthly mix we’ve posted available … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: December 2013
The Rebel Set have a vintage crash and snarl blended into their music that is reminiscent of guitar heroes from the 1950s like Link Wray and Gene Vincent at the peak of their thunder inducing years and pressure packed with the energy of 1960s garage bands like The Sonics and The Monks. Influenced by his father’s stacks of rock n’ roll vinyl and the lo-fi garage … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Rebel Set
Our first videos of 2014 come from Jared & The Mill’s foot-stomping Americana, blues rockers The Dough Rollers, fuzzy folkers Soulmates Never Die (download the EP on a pay-what-you-want deal here) and some gorgeous Scottish dream folk from Quickbeam. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Jared & The Mill || The Dough Rollers || Soulmates Never Die || Quickbeam
Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2014 with three bands that are perfect for blasting the morning after the night before’s hangover to smithereens. First up are Eighteen Nightmares At The Lux, a debauched amalgam of surf rock, garage punk and psychobilly who have a four track EP, PIG out in February. Check out the deranged rhythms and sinister riffs of taster track 6ft 6. Second we … Continue reading New Year Blast Off
Gorgeous Bully (the moniker of musician Thomas Crang) crafts self aware, self inflicted ditties celebrating misery, loneliness and self-loathing, and all perfectly molded into three minute grungey pop songs that celebrate the freedom of not doing what is expected of you. His latest release, this time with a full band, is a four track EP called Nobody Hates You As Much As You Hate Yourself and … Continue reading Introducing >>> Gorgeous Bully
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