Our first collection of free downloads from the new year taken from the best of our posts for January. Twenty tracks to tickle your fancy including, as always, a few new ones. Dig in. The Woodgrains – Nobody Too Lysergic folk-rock anchored by three part harmonies and an instinctive feel for classic songwriting. . The Rebel Set – Monster Vintage crash and snarl – a … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2014
Contrary to expectations Jimmy Tait is an Australian band, and not a tortured singer-songwriter, who have just released their second album, Golden. It is going to be well worth checking out if this taster from it is anything to go by. All My Friends is a excellent example of their pleasingly unconventional, somewhat desolate, goth-tinged post-rock that can be grabbed on a pay-what-you-want basis from … Continue reading MM Shorts 510: Jimmy Tait
The dark-hearted gothic-country of Black Hay makes a welcome return with the release of forthcoming single, I Feel Something. It is the first single from forthcoming debut album Romantic Music For Perverts and delivers a pleasingly ominous countrified twang amidst appropriately lusty lyrics. Imagine if you will the Kills playing the Moonlite Bunnyranch in Nevada… I Feel Something is out, ironically enough, on Valentine’s Day, … Continue reading MM Shorts 507: Black Hay
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
We’re catching up with a backlog of excellent videos to accompany excellent songs. Today watch Radical Face, Drowners, Mona & Maria’s pretty and epic pastoral ode to 60s/70s psych, Reverend Horton Heat’s octane-fueled pyschobilly with a little help from burlesque star Michelle L’Amour, and finally Twin Rivers story of a praying mantis living in the perils of a modern world. The praying mantis in the film is called … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Radical Face || Drowners || Mona & Maria || Reverend Horton Heat || Twin Rivers
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
Kick back and enjoy this collection of fine musical films from Steady Sun, July Talk, Victory and Steel Cranes. . . . [Click through for free download] . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Steady Sun || July Talk || Victory || Steel Cranes
It is has been over 18 months since we’ve heard anything from New York’s Tyburn Saints, so it is good to discover they have brought their own particular brand of gothic-tinged ‘death-indie’ back to life with the release of a new two track offering, Live on The B-Sides 91.5. You And I In Heaven shows the five-piece have lost none of their miserabilist tendencies as, barely … Continue reading Tyburn Saints Return
We’re loving this from gothic indie-folk group The Pines, an ethereal, wistful rendition of Highwayman, the classic 1985 Grammy-award winning country song of the year by outlaw country super-group The Highwaymen (Willie, Kris, Waylon, and Johnny). Continue reading MM Shorts 473: The Pines Cover Highwayman
Back at the beginning of the week we included the noirish folk of Emily Jane White in our big Round Up posting, and now as the end of the working week appears on the horizon, what better way to finish than with two more tracks from her forthcoming album Blood / Lines. First is Keeley. It is a gorgeous melancholy, gothic tinged drama, a lost … Continue reading Emily Jane White – Keeley & Holiday Song
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