You know the routine… Wreckless Eric – Days Of My Life The Chills – Silver Bullets The Gloomies – Groves The Underground Youth – Juliette Fuzz Ghost – Sandy Bum Eleanor Friedberger – He Didn’t Mention His Mother PWRHAUS – How I Feel About You The Duchess & The Fox – St Vitus Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Matt Kivel will be releasing, Janus his third studio album on February 5th next year via Driftless Recordings. The title track is a gorgeous broken folk hymnal, almost six minutes of typically beautiful, softly plucked acoustic Americana that carries you away like mist disappearing in the morning sun. Sink in. Continue reading Matt Kivel – Janus
Antlered Aunt Lord is entirely Jesse Stinnard, a guy who’s spent the past ten years in Athens, Georgia as a cherished eccentric in a town known for its cherished eccentricities. His first official release is Ostensibly Formerly Stunted (and on fire), and is out on the 30th November and features members of Tunabunny. Melodic, lyrically inventive, reticent, and moving – think the missing link between the Pixies … Continue reading MM Shorts 789: Antlered Aunt Lord
Seems like we’ve not done one for a little while. Here are a collection of tasty musical films to accompany some top notch tunes. Our selection includes Hinds, Sundara Karma, Alex Bleeker And The Freaks, Brooke Annibale, Spray Paint, Idles and Gold Class. Continue reading Video Round Up
Our regular weekend collection… this week seven new releases gathered for your edification and listening pleasure. Enjoy. Beach House – Elegy To The Void The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Laid (James cover) Soldiers of Fortune – Campus Swagger Coromandelles – New Ordain Palm Honey – Bewitched Sea Pinks – Depth Of Field Sune Rose Wagner – Donna (Richie Valens cover) … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The Cave Singers and Lightning Dust have been two mainstays of Mad Mackerel over the years, so when we discovered that Cavies guitarist Derek Fudesco and the Dusties vocalist Amber Webber had combined as Kodiak Deathbeds we were more than just excited. Their self-titled debut album is an absolute gem of acoustic, fingerpicked folk and hauntingly beautiful vocals. It is available from Bandcamp here, and … Continue reading MM’s 5:1 Interview No 18: Kodiak Deathbeds
Quiet Hollers’ new album is one we’ve been looking forward to immensely and it is officially out today (available to buy via Bandcamp). To mark the occasion, the band has shared a new video for Aviator Shades, reminiscent of the early 90s golden age of MTV, it is one of the earlier singles, and the opening track on their self-titled new release. Watch it … Continue reading New Video: Quiet Hollers – Aviator Shades
After a bit of a gap due to too much life interrupting, we’re back with instalment 6 of Nickel In The Jukebox. Ten new songs, you decide how good they are… Miners – Better Instincts [RIYL: Folk-rock, Lord Huron, The Head And The Heart] Futurekids – White Girl In A Wu-Tang Shirt [RIYL: Indie-rock, Wilco, Jenny Lewis] . PROM – I’ll Teach You [RIYL: … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 6)
In January, Shearwater will release Jet Plane and Oxbow, their new full-length studio album, on CD, double LP and digital download via Sub Pop (pe-order here). Spanning the range from racing synths and hammered dulcimers all the way through to addled motorik rhythms, it promises to be both their biggest and loudest and also their most intricate and detailed record to date. Have a listen … Continue reading New From Shearwater
Finding a sweet spot between floor-shaking rhythms, hard-hitting strings, soulful vocals, shimmering synth beats and just a hint of twang, New York’s Imaginary People will release their debut full-length album entitled Dead Letterbox on November 20th. Check out lead track She Is below. Continue reading MM Shorts 785: Imaginary People
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