The lovely Lovely Eggs have a new 7″ single out next week called Food. We are resisting the urge to call it tasty, and instead here is the suitably unhinged video with suggestive hotdogs, giant burgers and mountains of mash. a See them on tour: WEDS MAY 9TH Nice n Sleazys, GLASGOW THURS MAY 10TH The Third Door, EDINBURGH FRI MAY 11TH The Adelphi, HULL … Continue reading New Single/Video/Tour From The Lovely Eggs
Limited Fanfare have made an excellent free sampler available via their Bandcamp page. It features ten tracks from eight artists including MonstrO, The Ettes, Lil Daggers, Zebra Tracks, Stallone, and Joshua. New releases are imminent from Paper (Mike Marsh, drummer of Dashboard Confessional), Zebra Tracks, Stallone, Sunday Driver, Sound Sleeper and North&South.Keep an eye out too for Zebra Tracks who will be touring Europe a lot this year. … Continue reading Free Sampler From Limited Fanfare
The Ruminaters are a collaborative four piece that play what they describe in their e-mail as “beatnik, barnyard, hillbilly swamp rock“. That was a description that was always going to make us sit up and listen. With influences from The White Stripes and Black Lips to The Strokes and the Clash, The Ruminaters play feel good tunes with an energetic and nostalgic feel. Being the first … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Ruminaters
Strip-Lit Hell is the debut EP from Scotland’s Dog Moon Howl, available on a pay-what-you-want digital deal or CD for £4 via their Bandcamp page here. Their approach is a take-no-prisoners, full on sleazy blues and desert rock – imagine if you will Mark Lanegan duelling with Howling Wolf… Try the fearsome growl and grind of Blues Like A Hammer below. a Continue reading MM Shorts 152: Debut EP From Dog Moon Howl
We’ve posted a couple of times recently about the glorious, exhilarating fuzzed-up pop of Beast Make Bomb and they now have a new self-released EP out called Sourpuss and it has cover art that will delight Mrs M. Giveaway track Coney Island is another shimmering slice of indie rock played out against a backdrop of old-school punk attitude. It’s slightly slower, given a bit more … Continue reading MM Shorts 151: More From Beast Make Bomb
We became instant fans of the Wind-Up Birds after hearing the brilliant There Won’t Always Be An England from their Tyre Fire 7″. They are a peculiarly British band steeped in the idiosyncrasies and (sometime ridiculous) ways and mentalities of our island, unafraid to gleefully reveal when the Emperor is out and about with his new clothes, and to champion the cause of the forgotten, the … Continue reading The Welcome Return of the Wind-Up Birds
Last Saturday night way up yonder where the North wind doth blow, in an Italian restaurant (suppressing the urge to quote Billy Joel here for fear of reprisals), I had a little tête-à-tête with MON. My blushing was off the scale on the rouge-ometer but he was every bit as erudite, charming and utterly splendid as I thought he would be. Renounce your team and … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (4th May)
So many new releases, so little time. Here are a few guaranteed to brighten up a Friday. Loving this new track, Yatton from Beak> in all its hypnotic, krautrock inspired glory. From a new album due in the summer. a In a similar vein, Arc In Round’s self-titled debut LP, being released June 26, by La Société Expéditionnaire, reflects a sensibility garnered from endless hours of … Continue reading New Releases Round Up
On May 7th (digital)/May 21st (physical), ex-Lovvers frontman, Shaun Hencher will release Coming Up With The Sun EP for his new project called Virals. Check out and download Gloria, a three-minute gem bedded in the middle of the record that shines through with an insanely hooky vocal and charged guitar riffs, taking cues from the sunny California coast yet retaining a suitably English feel. It has the … Continue reading Introducing >>> Virals
After a short break from touring to write and record new material, Polly and the Billets Doux return with their Hold Fast EP and a UK tour this month. They recorded the new EP at the infamous Truck Studios (from the same team behind Truck and Wood Festivals). Hold Fast marks the band’s first formal release of 2012, with their second album set to follow … Continue reading Polly and the Billets Doux – New EP & Tour
