Still giddy and intoxicated from our Wooden Wand interview (see yesterday’s post) we sat down to watch a quality night of live music, and we weren’t to be disappointed. First to take the stage was Alisia Casper, who gave us some great English tinged folk tunes sung with a sublime, haunting voice. Next up was Conquering Animal Sound, When electronica like this is done live … Continue reading Wooden Wand: Live Review
Upon your first listen to this record you may think that you’ve just stumbled onto some lost nugget from 1968. The Paperhead take their name from a lyric in July’s golden-age psychedelic single My Clown, and while the record may have a vintage sound, it was written and recorded in the summer of 2010 by three 18 year old kids from Nashville, Tennessee. Neo-psych fans … Continue reading Introducing…The Paperhead
Last week we were lucky enough (in our eyes) to have James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand play a couple of dates in the UK. Although for various reasons the London dates fell through, Christy-Popper and Dr Roddy headed up North to York to catch him live and to have a chat with one of MM’s all time favourite performers. Arriving in York after a … Continue reading An Interview with Wooden Wand
On Saturday we streamed Get Older by Tom Williams & The Boat, which is rapidly becoming our tune of the year so far. So we were delighted to see that they have just produced a video to accompany the song. You can buy the EP, and pre-order the forthcoming album from their website here. Continue reading Tom Williams & The Boat: Get Older Video
Creepoid is a great name for a band. However, a name is not enough…if you’re called Creepoid you need tunes to fit with the moniker, and most importantly, tunes that are of a style and content that allow you to live up to the name. Thankfully, they more than deliver on both counts. Following on from their debut 7″ last year (Yellow Life Giver) comes … Continue reading Introducing…Creepoid
The Barettas are a trio from Hamilton, Ontario. We’ve never been, but their e-mail said it’s a city known for it’s industrial decay, grittiness, and blue-collar roots. Each member of the band has taken on a couple of jobs, usually a combination of cleaning houses during the day, and tending bar at night in order to reap the reward that it lets them make music … Continue reading Introducing…The Barettas
Over the past few days our ears have invariably pricked up whenever Get Older by Tom Williams & The Boat comes on Radio 6 (which has been with increasing frequency). Some songs require a dictionary to navigate through obscure lyrics or to divine a meaning from a myriad of choice and some songs just give it to you straight. When Tom Williams spits with unconcealed … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Tom Williams & The Boat
Friday is here once again; a little late perhaps after a particularly lovely Skype with the Swiss outpost. Despite the loose remit being to concentrate on the old, this week I’ve been drawn to the new. It’s a bit like life really: we may look back and reflect on what’s gone past. But so it goes, do we move on? Do we learn anything new … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (4th Feb)
It is fair to say we have been waiting for the debut album from Middle Brother with a more than keen sense of anticipation, them being an indie super-group of sorts, and featuring the not inconsiderable talents of MM faves Deer Tick (John McCauley), Delta Spirit (Matthew Vasquez) and Dawes (Taylor Goldsmith). And at last, here we have it. Me Me Me is the tasty, … Continue reading At last…Middle Brother offer up mp3
If Oxford can be said to have an iconic music venue then it would undoubtedly be the Jericho Tavern in Walton Street. The beer-sticky room over the pub having paid host to many of the indie greats, the indie up-and-comers, and the indie flash-in-the-pans over the past thirty years or so. And so it was there that Scottish folk experimentalists The Phantom Band kicked off … Continue reading The Phantom Band: Live Review
