Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
The third single to be taken from her third album Mug Museum, and one of our favourite tracks on the record, Sisters explores the female relationships in Cate Le Bon’s life, following the loss of her Grandmother, a running theme throughout the album. Cate comments, “Following the death of my maternal Grandmother I felt a very palpable shift in the roles that we’d all become accustomed … Continue reading New Cate Le Bon Single
Favorite Waitress will be released by the Felice Brothers on June 9th in the UK and Europe and June 18th in North America. Here is a video trailer with song clips from our most anticipated record of the year… . Here they are covering Harvest Moon…any excuse to post something! Continue reading Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress Album Trailer
Now in its third year, wiaiwya-7777777 is a seven inch singles club, and a very ambitious seven inch singles club at that – it is a celebration of the format and all things seven… Subscribers to wiaiwya-7777777 2014 will get seven picture discs (released on the 7th of the month) that together form a fully illustrated seven step guide to releasing your own records – … Continue reading WIAIWYA-7777777 Singles Club
Brighten the start of the week with no less than five top notch videos (and excellent tunes) from Ages and Ages’ uplifting melodic anthem, the classic slacker-indie of Blonde Summer, the incendiary guitars of Young Romance, Tough Age’s snarling, garage-scuzz, and lastly from Norway Mayflower Madame’s dark post-punk psychedelia. . [Click through for free download] . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Ages And Ages || Blonde Summer || Young Romance || Tough Age || Mayflower Madame
About six years ago, Song By Toad was one of the music blogs that made us want to kick off Mad Mackerel, and to this day we are still regular readers. As many of you will know, as well as a blog, it is also a record label and has included such MM faves as Eagleowl, Nightjar, Meursault, Rob St. John and Sparrow & The Workshop amongst … Continue reading Song By Toad 2014 Sampler
The sweeping grandeur of Ryne Warner’s Ohioan are back with a new split EP with fellow desert nomads Young Hunter that can be purchased from Bandcamp. It will also see a release on cassette in a limited edition run of 200. You can listen to all four tracks of atmospheric psych-infused weird Americana below, or just check out the wonderfully titled Dogshit In Plastic Bags from it, … Continue reading New From Ohioan
We were fortunate enough to receive our advance copy of Simone Felice’s new album Strangers in the mail this week and it has been in pretty constant play ever since. We’d already posted a couple of outstanding tracks from the record and happily the rest of it is just as good, if not better. It is a mix of the tender, the forlorn, the beautiful … Continue reading Simone Felice – UK Tour & Posters
The Young Knives have released a typically oddball video for their track White Sands (which they have described as “Almost a bit like “Song 2″ but more Big Black”). Either way the video is full of flags, bugs, crustaceans and Mentos! Go figure, good song though! . . Continue reading Video: Young Knives – White Sands
Here is the satisfyingly crunchy new single, Leave To Remain, from Cheatahs. It is taken from their self-titled debut album, which you can buy here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 537: Cheatahs
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