We’re loving the slow pace and unsettling, woozy Americana of Stone Jack Jones’ State I’m In and Black Coal, both brilliant tasters from his third album Ancestor. The descendent of four generations of coalminers and rejected from seeing service in Vietnam, he became a wandering musician and by the time he eventually put down some roots in Nashville he had had worked as a carny, an escape … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Stone Jack Jones
The excellent Crockpot is the first single on Slothrust’s new record, Of Course You Do, which is out on Ba Da Bing! Records this February 18. When a comment on the Soundcloud describes it as a cross between Total Eclipse Of The Heart and Smells Like Teen Spirit it has to be worth a listen doesn’t it? And it is a lot more the latter … Continue reading Introducing >>> Slothrust
Milagres have shared a new song from Violent Light, their new album due out on Memphis Industries on 24th February. It comes hot on the heels of the sprawling and theatrical prog-indie of Letterbomb. Jeweled Cave is a psych-pop gem, and features lead vocalist Kyle Wilson’s recollections of a childhood romance with a male friend: “it wasn’t a sexual relationship, but I don’t think you could describe … Continue reading Milagres – Violent Light
We have to confess that Kitten Grenade first caught our attention only because of a show they were playing with The Sad Bastard Book Club, a band who once (long ago) wrote a most excellent short story about MM, in which gratifyingly we died. Anyway, turns out Kitten Grenade are a duo providing a most engaging brand of ukelele led, melancholy tinged minimalist indie-pop. Rather … Continue reading Introducing >>> Kitten Grenade
Start the week with videos to contrast and compare from Big Harp, Future History, Drenge and Young Aviators. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Big Harp || Future History || Drenge || Young Aviators
Beggin’ On My Knees is the lead single from Fly My Pretties’ recently released album, The Homeland Recordings. It is six minutes of high octane infectious, rockabilly groove that will even get your grandma out of her seat and shakin’ her thang! Order from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 508: Fly My Pretties
Kent, Ohio based indie-folk band The Speedbumps spent six days at a cabin in the woods of Pennsylvania recording their latest album The Harbors We Seek. What the band lost in the isolation of a studio, it gained in the warmth and natural sound of the cabin where they recorded the album. Tracks on The Harbors We Seek even feature creaking floorboards, birds chirping outside the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Speedbumps
The dark-hearted gothic-country of Black Hay makes a welcome return with the release of forthcoming single, I Feel Something. It is the first single from forthcoming debut album Romantic Music For Perverts and delivers a pleasingly ominous countrified twang amidst appropriately lusty lyrics. Imagine if you will the Kills playing the Moonlite Bunnyranch in Nevada… I Feel Something is out, ironically enough, on Valentine’s Day, … Continue reading MM Shorts 507: Black Hay
LA based rock n rollers Rainbow Jackson have a new six-track EP, Perpetual Summer, coming on February 18th, and they have premiered the first single, Nightcrawler. It is a excellent slab of prickly, edgy indie rock that has echoes of Deer Tick through to Speedy Ortiz, which we think you’ll agree is a most promising combination. Watch the video for another of the EP’s tracks Psycho … Continue reading Introducing >>> Rainbow Jackson
Some cracking videos for you today from Hurray for the Riff Raff, John Grant, The Grisly Hand Have Gun Will Travel, and the excellently named Radar Men From The Moon. . . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Hurray for the Riff Raff || John Grant || The Grisly Hand || Have Gun Will Travel || Radar Men From The Moon
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