Chloë Sunshine are a Brooklyn-based all girl surf rock band. They have just released a new single called Want You. It’s about that feeling you have when you first meet someone and you absolutely cannot get enough of them. It is a wonderful blend of jangly, shoegazey pop with echoing vocals and Beach Boys style harmonies. The song can be downloaded for free below and will also be included … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Chloë Sunshine
Some city themed videos for you today. First from Shark Week shot in Washington DC’s Puerto Rican district, then Chastity Belt take on Seattle from the comfort of a couch in their video for excellent track Seattle Party. Next we have The Secret History’s Brooklyn centered video for Johnny Panic (Forget Everything) and lastly A Grave With No Name’s video for The Steps, made from … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Shark Week || Chastity Belt || The Secret History || A Grave With No Name
Oh boy, you get exactly what you might expect from a band called Ming City Rockers, and we are mighty glad about it. Latest single, Chic and the Motherfuckers, was released a few days ago and the bad boy influences from Eddie Cochran to the Stooges run through the heart of it, setting the song and the band apart like a seam of gold in … Continue reading Introducing >>> Ming City Rockers
We first featured Gross Relations back in 2010 and now this Brooklyn-based fivesome who play lo-fi pop songs that are highly catchy and short on saccharine, are deservedly beginning to earn themselves some major adulation. With plenty of fuzz and lackadaisically-delivered lyrics reeled in by insistent, irresistible riffs, the band have a certain swagger that’s more than borne out on this track, Cut The Final Scene, which … Continue reading The Welcome Return Of Gross Relations
Running on thunderous drums and gritty, fuzz-fueled guitar riffs, Brooklyn’s Slim Wray have delivered their brilliant single Bear, off their forthcoming album Sack Lunch. The blues-based, primal rock duo, who finds inspiration in The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Nirvana, and The Kinks, offers up a garage rock delight with Bear. The single attacks with a rousing introduction and swiftly transforms into a plain good … Continue reading Introducing >>> Slim Wray
Another in our semi-regular round-up of the best tunes to hit our inbox and the web. First up is another track from Scott & Charlene’s Wedding’s imminent new album, Any Port In A Storm. This latest, the album closer Wild Heart has more of a classic American slacker-pop feel to it a la Pavement or Mission Of Burma, it is a laconically heartfelt tale of … Continue reading Wednesday Means Six Of The Best
The raucous, hard-hitting Burning Condors have featured on MM a couple of times and now they return with their first 7” vinyl, Love on the Rocks backed with a cover of Folsom Prison Blues. The single is set for release on 5th August 2013 through Snakehand Records. Have a listen to the A side, a perfect blend of sleazy, raw punk and classic skiffle beat … Continue reading First 7″ Single From Burning Condors
We’re loving this catchy, surf infused slice of reverb soaked, summer joy from Austin’s garage rockers La Vega. Do The Surfer Girl Limbo is the perfect ode to hot days at the beach full of popping pills and chasing girls. Sounds real good to us…have a listen. Continue reading Loving La Vega
We’re loving this single from Canterbury duo Origami Horses. Velvet Rock is a contemporary classic-in-waiting hewn and mutated from the grand rock attitudes that stretch from the garage rock trailblazers of the 60s to the confrontational end of the Velvets chug. Have a listen. The single is out on Magnetic Eye Records and an album, Trashola, will follow in September. Continue reading MM Shorts 412: Origami Horses
Black Tambourines’ self titled album is due for release on 2nd September. To mark the occasion, the band are giving away a typically alluring of garage-psych goodness from it in the shape of the hook filled, sunny vibe of Bodies. Grab it below. Order the album here. Continue reading MM Shorts 411: Black Tambourines
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