Start the week with some excellent music videos from Cayucas, San Cisco (covering Daft Punk), Generationals, and King Khan & The Shrines. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Cayucas || San Cisco || Generationals || King Khan & The Shrines
Here is our round-up of our favourite downloads from May’s posts together with a few newbies that, together, make a mix of twenty tracks that is as eclectic as it is perfect! Enjoy. High Coast – Talvatis Sweetly picked Americana. . Landmarks – Cuscutta Lovely, unhurried, slice of woozy, psych-pop in the grand traditions of Spiritualized or Mercury Rev. . Black Manila – Père Lachaise Addictive blend of classic … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: May 2013
Enjoy some cool videos from Sun Angle with their animated horror homage for track Raspberry, surf-pysch-pop from The Wytches, and new films from Neils Children and Emily Wells. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Sun Angle || The Wytches || Neils Children || Emily Wells
We introduced you to the raw, lo-fi garage goodness of Kent’s Hunting Ulysses back in September last year with the release of their hugely promising Feral Youth EP. We’re pleased to report that they are back with a new EP, Jurassic Pop, containing five more tracks inspired by the primal forces of sleazy, grimy rock’n’roll, and once again available on a pay-what-you-want deal from their Bandcamp page. This … Continue reading New EP From Hunting Ulysees
Enjoy videos from Brazos and their track Charm, from Arborea with Pale Horse Phantasm filmed on location at Acadia National Park in Maine, from The Night Jars who use edits of episodes of the old Defenders of the Earth cartoons for their 60s garage inspired Drones, and from Lars Bygden, a truly brilliant animation for his dark and sorrowful track The Hole – not to be missed. … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Brazos || Arborea || The Night Jars || Lars Bygden
Videos today from Starlight Girls with 7×3 and Hey Ocean!‘s latest video for album track Change is set in an alternate world where zombies and humans attempt to coexist peacefully. We have the dubby psych-pop of Loved Ones and their video for Paper Crown, and lastly the raucous video for Staying Alive, a track from the forthcoming new album from The Whigs. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Starlight Girls || Hey Ocean! || Loved Ones || The Whigs
No Kill are a three-piece, noise-pop band from Brooklyn who have drawn comparisons from The Vaselines to Dinosaur Jr. Their debut EP release, the five track No Kill is a keeper – a treasure of jangly guitars and sugar-sweet melodies expertly woven with a woozy, fuzzed up garage rock sensibility and some good natured lo-fi distortion. It kicks off with the utterly infectious and disarming … Continue reading Introducing >>> No Kill
Believe it or not, Mad Mackerel has been around for more than five years now. During that time we’ve posted more than 4,000 times, and offered more than 5,000 songs for your listening pleasure. And more than three quarters of a million people have paid MM a visit during our lifetime on Google’s (godawful) blogspot and since April 2010 on WordPress. We asked some of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel The last Five Years – Chris T Popper Picks His Favourites
Its been a good while since we’ve put up one of these type of posts, but a plethora of top notch releases meant it demanded to be temporarily resurrected! So without further ado we have another taste of Laura Marling’s much anticipated new album in the shape of Once, and another taste from the rather weirder folk songstress Amanda Jo Williams and Holster, The Gun … Continue reading Wednesday Means Eight Of The Best
In common with many it seems, we are thoroughly enjoying the noisy, unholy, vibrant racket cooked up by Castleton brothers Eoin and Rory Loveless, aka Drenge. Their debut single was the brilliant, incendiary punk rock of Bloodsports (which we posted here) and now comes new single Backwaters, which we think is even better. This is rock’n’roll at its most thrilling and visceral – swaggering, galvanising and jagged … Continue reading Drenge’s New Single Backwaters
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