Here (better late than never) are our favourite download picks from our August posts, together with a few new tunes. Altogether a genre-busting mix of nearly 20 great songs. Dive in! Spook Houses – Living The Dream Tempo-shifting, slacker pop. . The Great American Canyon Band – Lost At Sea Gorgeous, rural folk-pop. . Vikesh Kapoor – I Dreamt Blues A narrative about endless work … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: August 2013
We’ve already posted Gross Relations swooning lo-fi pop nugget Cut The Final Scene from their self-titled debut album, released a few days ago on Old Flame Records (order here). Now wrap your ears around Discovery Zone, and we’re happy to wager, a more energetic, infectiously distorted slab of garage pop you’re unlikely to find… Continue reading More From Gross Relations
Videos to enjoy from singer-songwriter Cameron McGill and the fatalistic, resigned romanticism of his track Sucker Love, and a cinematic journey with a twist from London based-trio Polterghost. We have a many tentacled monster mash from all girl garage popsters Sharkmuffin, and some appropriately haunting visual imagery from Owl Paws for their beautifully melancholic track Cold Lead Bath. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Cameron McGill || Polterghost || Sharkmuffin || Owl Paws
Sleepy Sun’s new track 11.32 is a gargantuan slab of heavy garage psych that should be played loud enough to destroy your speakers. ‘Nuff said. It comes from their upcoming Sleepy Sun 7″, available 15th October on Dine Alone Records. Continue reading MM Shorts 435: Sleepy Sun
Good news! Left Lane Cruiser’s Freddy J IV and Brenn Beck are back with a new album of voodoo hillbilly punk-blues, Rock Them Back To Hell. By all accounts they’ve matured a bit too, adding harmonica, organ and even something they term trash percussion (that’ll be battering the bejesus out of cardboard boxes, paint tins, trash cans then). In truth the boys live up to every … Continue reading New Album From Left Lane Cruiser
Five top notch videos today come from Dr. Dog and their reappropriated footage to accompany the excellent Broken Heart, and similarly from Lorelle Meets The Obsolete we have a suitably antiquated experimental video for the superb psych-rock of What’s Holding You?. From Basia Bulat, a stunning live performance of It Can’t Be You, and by contrast from Diarrhea Planet, a spring breakers inspired film for … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Dr. Dog || Lorelle Meets The Obsolete || Basia Bulat || Diarrhea Planet || TV Ghost
Our first visit to the brilliant Green Man Festival. Here are the twenty best things we heard, saw and discovered over the weekend. 1. The Parquet Courts live up to the hype Like the Ramones on speed, the four-piece transcended all the hype with the set of the weekend – a thrilling, occasionally ramshackle, breakneck excursion into punk, slacker pop and moshpit heaven, and in … Continue reading The Twenty Best Things We Heard, Saw, And Discovered At The Green Man Festival
Mickey Gloss left the east coast of Australia for London amidst the chaos and disorder of the riots in summer 2011. Signposting all of that anarchy and energy is excellent lead single Are You Happy?, where wry social commentary meets punk DIY and garage psychedelia in a distillation of antipodean sun and London melancholia. It sounds like it comes straight from 1978, and we love it all … Continue reading Introducing Mickey Gloss
Sunwolf’s new single Push It is the perfect sub two and a half minute introduction to their forthcoming EP Angel Eyes (out on the 8th October via El Ray Records). Raw, a bit rough round the edges, boozy, sing/shout-a-long – it is a thrilling mix of visceral garage rock, punk attitude and glam rock swagger. Listen below. Continue reading Introducing >>> Sunwolf
The Spasms is an excellent name for a band, especially one dealing in adrenalin fuelled, garage-punk-psych all the way from the sheds of Melbourne, Australia. We Better Operate is the band’s debut album, independently released by the band, and contains nine tracks clocking in at less than 23 minutes. Not a minute wasted, not a second spare – dive into a couple of tracks below. We … Continue reading MM Shorts 430: The Spasms
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