Darkwing – Necropants
Brooklyn rockers Darkwing will shortly release their new EP Super Silver. The first single Necropants is a needling slab of distorted garage-punk that is well worth a spin. Stream it here. Continue reading Darkwing – Necropants
Category: Indie
Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Titus Andronicus – Only A Hobo BRONCHO – Keep It In Line Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie No. 2 Courtney Barnett – Small Talk Kurt Vile – One Trick Ponies Flat Worms – The Apparition Death Valley Girls – (One Less Thing) Before I Die The Berries – Junkyard Dog Laura Gibson – Domestication SOAK – Everybody Loves You New Rose – Plenty Of Flowers … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Ceramic Dog – Beer
Marc Ribot/Ceramic Dog are expressing their opposition to the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court with a Music Video , entitled Beer. Ribot says, “We like beer too. But we sure hate sexual assault, and super privileged machos who think they can get away with anything, and congresspeople who enable them. If this means we’re going to “reap the whirlwind: let’s make the … Continue reading Ceramic Dog – Beer
Mad Mackerel Recommends… Sick Bookies
A new discovery for us, Ad Nauseam is the third album proper from the Lincolnshire four piece Sick Bookies. A true DIY effort, it was recorded and compiled over the last year in studios, bedrooms and living rooms. Comprising of eleven pieces of music, the album explores the bewilderment of our times through twisting words, stalling arrangements and songs that are close to dismantling. The influences … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Sick Bookies
Sharon Van Etten – New Album & New Single
After five long years, the wonderful Sharon Van Etten has shared details of the follow up to 2014’s excellent Are We There. Her new record is titled Remind Me Tomorrow and will see a release on 18th January, via Jagjaguwar. The first taste from it is, appropriately enough, Comeback Kid, which is a track that is altogether more urgent and driven than anything we’ve heard … Continue reading Sharon Van Etten – New Album & New Single
NIne Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Joe Strummer – Czechoslovak Song / Where Is England The Men – Ailment Anna St. Louis – Desert Hater – Things To Keep Up With PAINT – Daily Gazette Methyl Ethel – Scream Whole Jeff Tweedy – Some Birds Death Valley Girls – Street Justice Kevin Devine – Into The Great Wide Open (Tom Petty cover) Continue reading NIne Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Mad Mackerel Recommends… Tropical Fuck Storm
Australian outfit Tropical Fuck Storm, featuring a couple of members from The Drones have shared the video for The Future of History, taken from their upcoming Joyful Noise Recordings’ debut, A Laughing Death in Meatspace. Mixing art-rock, deconstructed punk skronk, and a kitchen sink full of ideas, wit and acerbic observation, the album is a great listen. Watch the Gary Kasparov inspired video below and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Tropical Fuck Storm
Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Father John Misty – So I’m Growing Old On Magic Mountain (Live at Third Man Records) Holly Miranda – I Will Survive (FM4 Session Live In Vienna) (Gloria Gaynor cover) Holly Miranda – A Little Piece Cloud Nothings – Leave Him Now Harmony Rockets with special guest Peter Walker – Atropos Marianne Faithfull feat. Nick Cave – The Gypsy Faerie Queen Cat Power – Stay … Continue reading Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
EZTV – Daytime
Daytime the new single from New York trio EZTV is a really sweet slice of jangly indie rock that recalls the 60’s heyday of pastoral psychedelia and all those wonderful nugget compilations. Listen here and order here from Bandcamp. Continue reading EZTV – Daytime
Video Round Up
Here is our latest collection of musical films for you. A regular pot pourri of musical styles from Girl Skin’s gorgeously fragile chamber folk to Sit Down’s oozing amalgam of doom metal and sludgy punk by way of The Cavemen’s amphetamine-fueled rhythms and scorching guitar, coupled with drunk and disorderly vocal tirades, and First Aid Kit’s ever perfect vocal harmonies. There is Steve Mason’s soulful new … Continue reading Video Round Up
The Mad Mackerel 