Lots of good stuff for you today. Hot on the heels of Colleen Green’s new track, comes a new EP from Virals, brimful of soaring melodies, loud guitars and sugar sweet vocals. On Monday they release Strange Fruit (via Zoo Music), four more tracks of sun-dappled power-pop goodness. Dive into the title track and Summer Girls. Continue reading New EP From Virals
The Dirty Nil are back! This time it’s a split vinyl with their friends Northern Primitive released by Indoor Shoes. They sent some basic participation instructions: “Listen to Zombie Eyed at a motherfucking loud volume.” We suggest you do as they say… It is free for one month via their Bandcamp page or better still go there and order the vinyl. a a Continue reading New Dirty Nil Single
Released yesterday, Gayze’s debut offering Black Soul is six tracks of swirling, shaking garage rock – raw, swaggering and primal. Think of it as a motorcycle ride through the desert to a secret party that is part Hell’s Angels gathering, part psychedelic be-in. Black Soul was recorded in a secluded 1930s haunted house and with a serious lack of professional equipment. Plaintive acoustic guitar tunes are tucked … Continue reading Introducing >>> Gayze
The Chaw’s sound is very strong in character. Dark moody sounds, drenched in reverb, referencing soundtracks of the classic spaghetti westerns, big open bar chords and barky low register guitar leads ala Dick Dale, and psychedelic soundscapes, take you on a trip on a dusty trail through a vivid world, full of mystery, and intrigue. This is territory beloved of bands like The Doors and the … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Chaw
Bruise or Be Bruised is the debut album from Prissy Clerks, out via Forged Artifacts. It is a mix of fuzzed up punk and slacker indie with garage pop undertones and manages to balance a confused, dark isolation with some tender sweetness. Download the title track and buy the album here. Continue reading MM Shorts 288: Prissy Clerks
As might be expected, slightly fewer tunes make up our final monthly mix of the best of the downloads from MM – no panic tho’, the quality of new tunes on offer more than makes up for it. And as always, some new ones for you too means a top banana mix of twenty cracking songs to play in the New Year. The Cheatahs – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: December 2012
To celebrate their impending fourth birthday lo-fi garage rock and pop specialists Odd Box Records have collated a retrospective 45 song compilation – that’s nearly a song from every release they’ve put out over the past four years. It includes The Medusa Snare, The Vignettes, Proto Idiot, Ace Bushy Striptease, Pocketbooks and many more. It’s available to download from their bandcamp page on a pay what you … Continue reading MM Shorts 285: Odd Box Records Compilation
With all the festivities and end-of-year lists of our favourites, it has meant we have not been able to post a number of new tunes that also came out during the latter part of December. So with apologies for the relative lateness of many of these, we still wanted to catch up and give them a bit of love and airtime. Led by the husky, … Continue reading A Late December Catch Up
To finish off our favourites of the year, here are numbers thirty to sixteen of the albums we have most enjoyed in 2012. Don’t forget to check back for our 100 Favourite Tunes and the MM contributor’s best of lists too. 30 Joe Pug – The Great Despiser a 29 David Cronenberg’s Wife – Don’t Wait To Be Hunted To Hide a 28 Band Of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums of 2012 Part 1: 30-16
Here is It’s OK To Be Afraid, the new single off of upcoming debut album by Israeli trio Vaadat Charigim. Continue reading MM Shorts 284: New Single From Vaadat Charigim
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