So then, half way through the year already. Time to take stock and see what the first six months have delivered up in terms of new tunes and bands. We asked some of the regular MM contributors to pick three songs that have particularly struck a chord (sorry) with them in the first part of 2012. Kyle Adem – Brother Follow Unlike Brains by Lower Dens … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best of the Year (so far)
Must be a day for folky covers of other genres! Hot on the heels of our earlier post of the Smoke Fairies covering The Cult, we have Town Hall Plays The Classics Vol 1, a free EP of five covers by the NY folksters. Each member of the band picked a favourite song and each was then given the Town Hall treatment. It comes hot on the heels … Continue reading Town Hall’s Free Covers EP
She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult surely has one of the most recognisable guitar intros ever and is still a staple of any self-respecting indie disco night. The Smoke Fairies, on the back of their really rather good new album Blood Speaks (which foregoes some of the whimsy for a darker, altogether more purposeful feel to it) have put together an EP of covers called … Continue reading The Smoke Fairies Cover The Cult
Began as a drunken strum into a tape recorder, Marijuana’s on the Phone is the first drag (and lead single) from Ape School’s new album of acid-fried maniacal pop, Junior Violence, coming this August from Hometapes. The single is out now via Hometapes and Needless Records. a Continue reading MM Shorts 183: Ape School
Anna-Lynne Williams (aka Lotte Kestner) and Robert Gomez, nearly strangers, left Seattle and Denton and went to Marfa to make a record under the name Ormonde. They platonically arranged their instruments in a tiny adobe house in the most dreamlike town in Texas. They made ten songs. They called it Machine. When you hear the guitar strum, when you hear Gomez breathe in, when you … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Ormonde
Every so often an artist comes along that just blows every expectation you have out of the water. This is Daughn Gibson. We may be late to post about this, but no matter that his album All Hell came out back in April. This is most certainly a case of better late than never. Previously he was in stoner rock band Pearls and Brass, but … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Daughn Gibson
Paul J Fox is a 25 year old artist from Belfast who records and performs under the moniker Coastal. He draws influences from (amongst others) Beck, The Strokes, Robin Guthrie, Wilco and Television, but like all the best artists, he has enough originality and imagination to turn these into something entirely of his own making. Previously he was a member of Kitty and the Can Openers until … Continue reading Introducing >>> Coastal
