It’s just as well my brother’s an absolute diamond. Sisters – apparently, we share the same gene pool! I find that utterly amazing. That aside, I’ve decided that all this and that which has gone past for the last two or three years, is just life lessons, condensed. Interesting week, nevertheless. A trip to Oxford with long-tall-Jenny to see the wonderful Sea of Bees and … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (11th Feb)
Take a boatload of eclectic instruments, big sing-a-long choruses and multi vocalists who can nail their harmonies, throw in songs that have more hooks than your grand daddy’s tackle box, and you get Pariah Beat’s sophomore effort, Bury Me Not. Like a dirt-encrusted buzzsaw from the past, moving forward with the weight of a freight train behind it, Bury Me Not injects youthful vigour into … Continue reading Introducing…Pariah Beat
What Would Jesus Drive featured prominently in the Top Ten lists of Christy-Popper and Dr Roddy with their blend of caustic electro-indie rock. In advance of debut album Black and Blue (due in March) they are releasing a new EP Fragile Mansions. Deciding not to tamper with a winning formula, the EP gleefully reminds the listener where the soul of a lost punk generation lies – … Continue reading Free EP from What Would Jesus Drive
A psychedelic-dark-pop group from Ohio, Wolf Ram Heart is bent on marrying art with popular music. Their new album, Betrayal of Hearts, is a hybrid of pop’s faded echoing sensibilities, influenced by the productions of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson as much as 4AD and Creation Records acts of the early 90s. The band’s music combines heavily layered moments and deceptively complex melodies, all sewn … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Wolf Ram Heart
Mess Around is the debut EP by Milwaukee’s Trent Fox & The Tenants. It’s five tracks of garage infused rock n roll with added swagger and a whole bunch of attitude. It is out on the 22nd February on the Kind Turkey label. Their songs are all grimy snapshots of young adult life in Riverwest, Milwaukee – one of the poorest and most economically devastated … Continue reading Introducing…Trent Fox & The Tenants
Marcus Foster has been generating quite a buzz recently with the imminent release of his debut EP Tumble Down, out on 4th April. Featuring four tracks rich with languor and melancholic life, the EP’s lead track Shadows Of The City got it’s first play on Zane Lowe’s Radio One show earlier in the week. Such was the listener response (comparisons to Jeff Buckley, Fleetwood Mac’s … Continue reading Introducing…Marcus Foster
What else is there to do on a cold, windswept evening on the eastern streets of Oxford, but to head down to a temporary gig space/arts centre just off the Cowley Road. The Old Bookbinders (not to be mistaken with its namesake over in Jericho) is a bit like gate-crashing a student house party: fairy lights, garlands and bunting, old sofas, chairs, and a smattering … Continue reading Heavenly Recordings Showcase: Live Review
Moon Duo have finally released details of their debut album titled Mazes. It will be out on the 18th April on Souterrain Transmissions. We have the title track for you here, and this record is a must for any fans of psychedelia, drone-rock, stoner riffage or anything similar. Featuring the not inconsiderable talents of Sanae Yamada and Wooden Shjips guitarist Ripley Johnson it promises to be … Continue reading Moon Duo Announce Debut LP
We’ve posted a couple of times about the new album from The Asteroid #4. Hail To The Clear Figurines is the sixth album by these Philly psychonauts and is officially released today. To mark the occasion the band have made a new track available for free, and it is one of our stand-out favourites from the record. Album opener Wicked Wire may only be just over two minutes … Continue reading The Asteroid #4 release new album today
The label Swill Children sent us a couple of releases recently. One, a 7″ split between Brooklyn based Hunters and Montreal based Dead Wife is proving increasingly popular here at MM. Hunters are charged with wild energy, hailing from Brooklyn, NY and led by the duo singers/guitarists, Derek Watson and Isabel Ibsen. The tribal beat and brilliant riff on Deadbeat is a perfect combination of … Continue reading Introducing…Hunters
