Sheffield duo Bromheads (previously Bromhead Jackets) release their brand new Holding The Gun EP on the 29th October. The EP’s lead track (of the same name) is just over two minutes long and fizzes over with the energy of a can of Irn-Bru exploding full in your face. It is sharp and pithy, and fast and furious, and machetes its way into your brain like … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Bromheads
Without You is the second single of bittersweet folk-pop to be released from Ellen and the Escapades debut Album All The Crooked Scenes. It is officially released on the 21st October. Listen for yourself. a Catch them live: Thu 25 Oct – The Wilmington Arms, London Sun 28 Oct – Pocktoberfest, Pocklington Mon 29 Oct – The Cluny 2, Newcastle Wed 31 Oct – Louisiana, Bristol … Continue reading New Single From Ellen & The Escapades
Having abjectly failed to regain control of our In-box since returning from holiday, we are still working our way through a sackful of new bands, new albums, new singles, new tracks, new demos and everything in-between. So with apologies for the delay in posting some of these, here is one awesome round-up of stuff that has caught our ears, our imagination, or, best of all, … Continue reading Mega Roundup
Forged in their Delaware studio, the latest release from the Spinto Band titled Shy Pursuit may well be their most exciting and inventive set of recordings to date. Since 2006, the five-piece have been providing fans with their own unique style of pop music that has been compared to everything from The Strokes to Sparks. Grab yourself a free download of the acoustic guitar driven, … Continue reading Free Download From The Spinto Band
The wonderful, and wilfully uncommercial, label Audio Antihero have made a free sampler of their music available for free download. Brilliantly described as “This sampler is a document of our underachieving…but a damn good one.” It includes the marvellous Benjamin Shaw, the marvellous Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences, the marvellous Jack Hayter, the marvellous Wartgore Hellsnicker and…well you get the picture. Download the sampler … Continue reading Free Sampler From Audio Antihero
Having succumbed wholly and without reservation to the Wave Pictures most recent album Long Black Cars, we were intrigued to hear the first fruits of lead singer David Tattersall’s solo album Little Martha, (named after a Duane Allman tune, and released on the anniversary of his death, 29th October) via WIAIWYA. It is an album of guitar instrumentals and this is first single, The Sunshine Hotel. Watch … Continue reading Free David Tattersall Single
Our pal Ryne from expansive and experimental folkies Ohioan dropped us a line to say he was sending over a teaser track from their forthcoming American Spirit Blues record in the shape of Still Reeling. Not only that, but he has also provided us with the first listen of a new version of an old Ohioan song, I Know I Am Home, which he tells us “may or may … Continue reading Ohioan Return
Jenee Halstead’s new single from her excellent Raised By Wolves album of dark pop and Americana is Rodeo of Sadness. With tenor ukulele providing a poppy, reggae core to the song, keys and distorted banjo fill in the rest of this unique take on getting through life’s bumpy rides. It is another fine example of her spooky, sparse approach that comes across as sounding like … Continue reading More From Jenee Halstead
