Mad Mackerel Recommends… Boogarins

Boogarins began playing music together as teenagers in the central Brazilian city of Goiânia– recording psychedelic pop in their parents’ gardens. The group’s debut LP, As Plantas Que Curam, released in 2013, was an acclaimed lo-fi home recording, reviving ‘60s Tropicalismo and speaking directly to their Brazilian audience with Portuguese-sung rock and roll. Now Boogarins have returned with Manual, veering into more complex musical territory, propelled by … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Boogarins

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Seven days, nine new songs, all winners. Courtney Barnett – Boxing Days Blues Revisited JEFF The Brotherhood – Radiating Fiber Plane Besnard Lakes – Golden Lion Cass McCombs – Evangeline William Elliott Whitmore – Civilisations Hiccup – Whatevs, Its Cool Powderburns – Not Right (Stooges cover) Cheatahs – Su-Pra Mothers – It Hurts Until It Doesn’t                     Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Introducing >>> Katie Von Schleicher

I’m Not The Money is a fuzzy, dreamy pop song that comes edged with darkness from Katie Von Schleicher’s forthcoming album called Bleaksploitation. With echoes of Sharon Van Etten, it sits somewhere between torch song, woozy ballad and bleary eyed, morning-after-the-night-before bleakness. Marvellous. . Continue reading Introducing >>> Katie Von Schleicher

together PANGEA – Blue Mirror

together PANGEA have released Blue Mirror, the second single off of  upcoming new release The Phage EP – produced by Tommy Stinson from The Replacements – which is out on 12″ EP, cassette and digital tomorrow via Burger Records. Listen here to a brilliantly plaintive slab of post-punk inspired indie rock. . Continue reading together PANGEA – Blue Mirror

MM Shorts 783: King Korea

London-based garage rock trio King Korea will unleash their debut single Zoo Generation on 23rd October. Creating furious, thoroughly modern rock and roll which calls to mind the best of The Cramps, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and The Black Keys, it is a taut, three-minute explosion of blistering guitars, fuzzed-out bass and psychotic vocals. In fact it is an angry, pounding beast of a single … Continue reading MM Shorts 783: King Korea

More From The Vryll Society

Ethereal Liverpool space-rockers The Vryll Society have revealed the second track from their debut EP Pangea, ahead of the record’s official release on 26th October. Coshh sees the band following up on the success of lead single Air (listen here), with its hazy psychedelic twist and more of their mesmerising groove-laden sound. This is bound sure to add to the buzz already building around the band. Give it a … Continue reading More From The Vryll Society

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

A day late, but no matter. A collection of nine brand spanking new tunes rounded up from the past week – just for you. Laura Stevenson – Claustrophobe Woozy – Painted White Eleanor Friedberger – False Alphabet City Long Beard – Turkeys Surf Rock Is Dead – Never Be The Same Dirty Nil – Provisional (Fugazi cover) Vandaveer – Jealous Guy (John Lennon cover) Ex-Hex … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

New From Courtney Barnett

Hot on the heels of the news of a repackaging of her breakthrough debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett will also be releasing a special brand new 7″ single produced by Jack White for this Third Man label. The single is part of Third Man’s “Blue Series”, in which artists passing through Nashville are invited to stop … Continue reading New From Courtney Barnett