Category: Indie

Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends… Brooke Annibale

On 2nd October, singer/songwriter Brooke Annibale will release her fourth full-length studio album The Simple Fear. The record’s appeal lays in Annibale’s subtle groove and alluring style encased in layers of beautiful strings, guitar, piano, and percussion. However, it’s her magnetic voice and her wonderful smouldering delivery, that really draws you in, it gives her music an evocative, poignant feel that is all too rare in today’s crowded … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Brooke Annibale

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Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Here we are, a day late, but no compromise on quality. Nine new tunes from the past week for your listening consumption. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Paper Mache Dream Balloon Elyse Weinberg – Houses Destruction Unit – The Upper Hand Avers – Come To Me Now Shannon & The Clams – It’s Too Late Childbirth – Let’s Be Bad Saintseneca – Sleeper … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Americana, Folk, Indie, Music

MM Shorts 765: Strangled Darlings

Taking their name from a William Faulkner reference, the sound of Strangled Darlings is sometimes compared to David Byrne and Tom Waits performing as a folk duo. New album Boom Stomp King is a record of groove driven, swamp tinged tunes about love, rage, and small things. Harmonies and instrumental melodies with solid body cello and mandolin accompany the songs. Have  a listen to Kill Yourself below, … Continue reading MM Shorts 765: Strangled Darlings

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Americana, Indie, Music, Rock

New Desert Blues – Summer Skin

It has been a while since we have heard anything new from cinematic, Americana tinged indie rockers New Desert Blues. Now though we have Summer Skin, a guitar ballad with a slightly menacing undertone that builds to a pleasingly impressive pinnacle. It precedes a debut album that we should have more details on soon. Have a listen. . Continue reading New Desert Blues – Summer Skin

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Americana, Country, Indie, Music, Rock

New Album From Quiet Hollers

We’re loving Côte d’Azur, a new track from Quiet Hollers, and the first we’ve heard from them since we posted the brilliant Road Song back in the beginning of 2013. It comes from their upcoming self-titled sophomore album which runs the proverbial gamut of the band’s eclectic influences: 90s college rock, post punk and alt-country, to deliver heady, literate, hook-laden narratives, blasting through tube amps in … Continue reading New Album From Quiet Hollers

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Post Punk, Rock

Woolen Men – Life In Hell

Life In Hell is the latest track from the Woolen Men’s forthcoming long player Temporary Monument. It is propulsive, jerky punk rock that soundtracks a tale of urban gentrification and the smothering advance of the newly rich. It somehow manages to pack being tense, fatalistic and compelling into two short, clattering minutes. Listen here. . Continue reading Woolen Men – Life In Hell

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Punk, Rock

Diet Cig – Dinner Date

NY’s punky power-pop duo Diet Cig have shared the second song from their double A-side Sleep Talk/Dinner Date 7″. Dinner Date is (maybe) our favourite song of theirs to date – one that continues them along their path of unflinchingly highlighting failures and disenchantments (their own and others). The song is plaintive yet spiky, building to a fuzzy finale of frustration and stinging disappointment. Brilliant. The frosted clear vinyl, … Continue reading Diet Cig – Dinner Date

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

New From Menace Beach

There cannot be many better ways to start the day than with a new song about a pocket-size alien ghoul who soaks up your darkness and anxieties. So it is with Ghoul Power, the latest track from Menace Beach’s new Super Transporterreum EP which cranks up the ante a notch or two with some off kilter psychedelics, woozy hallucinogens and good old fashioned speed buzz. Don’t worry – … Continue reading New From Menace Beach

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