Here are a few of the better/more interesting videos that have found our way into the in-box recently. First up are The Whigs, a band we’ve posted about a few times. This is the band keeping it simple in their self-directed video for So Lonely from current album In The Dark. Rodeo Massacre are a Swedish/French band in thrall to the sixties garage scene and … Continue reading MM’s Video Update
We’re not sure how to accurately describe this track from Swedish band The Skull Defekts. It’s minimal and powerful, it’s a bit raga, a bit drone, has some tribal chants, lots of repetition, it’s hypnotic, a bit trancey, some pyschedelia and seriously rhythmic! In a wholly good way it reminds us a bit of everything from the 60s to the 90s – from Cornershop to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Skull Defekts
I often think, quite sadly, that the good old fashioned political protest song is a dying breed in the modern age. So it was all the more pleasing to get this short and pithy missive from Ed of MM faves and undeniably brilliant down-tempo miserabilists The War Crimes. “Blair’s appearance at the Chilcott whitewash gotta me thinkin’ about an old tune of ours. Geronimo was of … Continue reading The War Crimes Protest
Exactly a week ago we gave you the wonderful So It Goes from Meredith Adelaide and Josh Schroeder. In the seven days that have elapsed they have put up a new song for free download from their Bandcamp page (or indeed just below this text). Where Are You? is a more straight-forward indie ballad that this time has a more epic quality as it quietly … Continue reading More from Josh Schroeder & Meredith Adelaide
Here are three gems of garage rock/punk/pop joy for you, especially designed to brighten up a drab and dreary January Sunday. We’ve posted about the Mind Spiders and the Thick Shakes before. Both play a wonderfully uncluttered, joyous form of proto garage-rock that is simple, unaffected and damn catchy. We have a track from the forthcoming Mind Spiders self-titled album and the Thick Shakes new … Continue reading Let’s Go Garage…
A while ago we posted the magnificently titled Balding College Girls by The Hairs, a lo-fi, jangly diy masterpiece. Now they’re back with the equally magnificently titled Jack Becomes A Policewoman and it is another quirky, garage pop gem. Visit their MySpace here. Download The Hairs – Jack Becomes A Policewoman mp3 (from Hairs Make Music) Download The Hairs – Balding College Girls mp3 Continue reading New from The Hairs
Michigan quartet Ghost Heart are about to release their debut album, The Tunnel, which will be available from January 29, on Friction Records. The band happily defy all pigeonholes and categorisation…there is some folk, some electronica, some samples, some tribal percussion, even a bit of shoegaze guitar sound, and all is topped off with layered vocals to deliver songs that are equally expansive and accessible, … Continue reading Introducing…Ghost Heart
Actually, it’s been a week I’d rather forget in many respects. I’m losing heart in what I do because some of the people I deal with. Even going all legal does not seem to discourage their propensity to lie. So, to lighten the sombre mood, I asked MM: me versus Genetic experiment Mark 2 – who wins? Sometimes a virtual vigilante is what’s needed; it’s … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (21st Jan)
Gay Pirates is the first single from the new Cosmo Jarvis album Is the World Strange or am I Strange? (scheduled for release late March 2011). It tells the story of two male lovers facing extreme discrimination in the inhospitable and, as you can imagine, far from accepting social climate of the pirate heyday. The single is about the triumph of love against all odds and … Continue reading New Single from Cosmo Jarvis
Here at MM, The Mountain Goats are a bit of a marmite band, you either love ’em (Barry-Sean) or you don’t (Mrs M) and there’s not much grey area in between. So there will probably be delight and complete indifference in equal measure at the imminent release of new album All Eternals Deck and advance taster Damn These Vampires. I actually think this horror inflected … Continue reading Mountain Goats: New Album Taster
