As any recent, or regular, reader of MM will know Wooden Wand is a stonewall favourite round these parts, featuring prominently in the end-of-year best of lists for both tracks and albums. So we wanted to let you know, and to urge you, to get behind his Kickstarter project to fund a new album to be recorded under the name Wooden Wand & The Briarwood … Continue reading Support Wooden Wand’s Kickstarter Project
The Indianapolis quartet We Are Hex have been quite busy these last few months: releasing their acclaimed sophomore album Hail The Goer on (My Old Kentucky Blog’s) Roaring Colonel Records, and touring like crazy to promote it. The band has released a new video for their song We Are The Goer (found on Hail The Goer). The video was directed by Nathan Karamanski, and can … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…We Are Hex
Although we don’t often mention ‘news’ items we did just want to let you know that the wonderful Joe Pug will play his first UK headline show later this month at the Relentless Garage in London and will precede this with a couple of dates in Dublin and Glasgow. There are only a few tickets left for the London show so you’ll need to be … Continue reading Joe Pug’s UK Headline Show
The new issue of Uncut magazine has a quite excellent free cover CD containing new album tasters from 15 bands including the likes of The Low Anthem, The Decemberists, Iron & Wine, Joan As Policewoman, Drive-By Truckers and Arbouretum as well as a couple of new bands to us such as the rather good Lucky Strikes with their Crazy Horse influenced tale of boxing champ Frankie Valentinez, … Continue reading Uncut’s Cover CD is a Cracker
In 2005, Chad Kichula sold his truck to pay for his first album. The result was a self-titled Americana/roots-rock album that showed he could craft lyrics and tell a story with the best of them. In 2007, Chad went into the studio to record a three song EP entitled Better in the Morning. It featured acoustic compositions which Chad was already playing on the road. In … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Chad Kichula
Céleigh Chapman grew up singing country standards in the juke joints of Bakersfield, California. Isaac Watters was born in Mexico City, Mexico and raised in Tucson, and spent much of his youth in El Coyol, Mexico. He is an artist, writer and architect. Celeigh and Isaac met and began performing together in Los Angeles. Coyol is the result: whiskey bravery and absinthe romanticism, a collision … Continue reading Introducing…Coyol
North Carolina’s Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands are gearing up to release their first full length album, While hard to categorise, the lyrics and melodies on the debut album portray the world as a dark and strange (and often funny) place deeply connected to fables and imagination. So we could say twisted carnival folk anyone? Experimental, creepy vaudeville perhaps? However, you choose to describe … Continue reading Introducing…Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands
Lawrence & Leigh are a duo from Brooklyn and their first major undertaking, entitled Odyssey, is a set of three EPs, each with its own distinct sound and character. The first release, which has been a year in the making, is in fact the final chapter, Volume III: Hills and Masts. The EP will be released on 7th March. Coming across like a blend of … Continue reading Introducing…Lawrence & Leigh
Coastwest Unrest is the moniker for the collaboration between violin whiz kid Alex Barnes, and brothers Josh and Noah Dickie who formed the band in the spring of 2009. Their second full-length album is out now. Old Weird America is full of material that lives up to its title with songs about redemption, biblical imagery, rebellion, loss, the nightmarish American landscape and the haunting ghosts of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Coastwest Unrest
Lubec comes out swinging with a growling sonic left hook that floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee on new EP Nothing is Enough!, coming out on 18th January. Gritty wall of sound guitar blasts mesh with crystalline melodies, recalling Black Tambourine, JAMC, and Clouds Taste Metallic-era Flaming Lips. No sir, this isn’t the beach vibes happy times type gig that’s been repeated … Continue reading Introducing…Lubec
