If you follow a route to an intersection where garage rock meets jazz, where rockabilly meets gothic and where country meets punk, you might well see Black Hay sitting roadside ready to scrounge a cigarette and tell you a few stories. Stories that you might subsequently find on their Nightsong EP. Stories that are shadowy – skewed romantica if you will – with echoes of Nick … Continue reading Introducing >>> Black Hay
So, all things considered January got off to a rip-roaring start where new tunes are concerned. Here is our selection of our best of the month’s downloads (27 in all) and a few new tunes too – more than 30 to pick from, so blow those January blues away with these babies. Prissy Clerks – Bruise or Be Bruised Mix of fuzzed up punk and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2013
Jody Nelson had a busy 2012 with a fantastic EP release from Through the Sparks, production duties on Some Dark Holler’s Hollow Chest, performing on Wooden Wand’s Blood Oaths of the New Blues, and touring and working diligently throughout the year on his own Dorado project. And it is this project that has seriously got our attention – the album Anger, Hunger, Love and the Fear of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Dorado
Yep, it is that time again. We’ve trawled back through all our e-mails, favourite blogs, and new music discoveries to bring you up to date with all that’s been good on the MM stereo recently. Because of the time of year it includes a few we missed from way back before Christmas, but which still more than deserve some ear-time – you may have missed … Continue reading Round Up Time Again – Part 1
Today we have a brilliant video for California from John Murry’s excellent noir solo debut The Graceless Age as well as some rockin’ art-pop from Manchester’s Dutch Uncles and lo-fi psych-sonics from Denmark’s Crystal Shipsss. a a a a a a Continue reading Videos of the Day: John Murry || Dutch Uncles || Crystal Shipsss
It’s been a year of two halves, metaphorically speaking, and Dan Mangan has had my ear for most of the second half. So there we were, Movie Mate and I, in Kings Cross on a Tuesday night, feeling like we’d slipped into some sort of Canadian enclave. Dan Mangan has the most remarkable baritone voice that cuts through to the rather bruised bit below my … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (30th November)
We posted about Kam Kama right at the beginning of the year, enthusing about their sinewy mix of guitars and queasy vocals and they have returned with a new 7″ single Passer By / Joseph Stride, which sees a release on the 11th December. A new drummer provides a slightly different, leaner sound although the same economical, almost sparse songcraft remains. Take a listen to the … Continue reading MM Shorts 270: New Single From Kam Kama
Time for another trawl through the in-box and round our favourite music sites to bring you a whole host of goodies to enjoy. First up is a new free song from Bear Driver – layers of sound create a swooning dream pop song of chiming surfed up guitar lines, clattering drums, and melancholic synths. This newly built sound they have dubbed ‘patchwork-pop’! a Widowspeak have a … Continue reading Round Up Time Again
The Miami release Ring Shouts, an EP of stark reinterpretations of African-American slave songs, gospels, hymns, and traditional lyrical poetry. Available on cassette thanks to tape label Prison Art or via Bandcamp. a Continue reading MM Shorts 259: The Miami
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