A fiery yet charming Australian ensemble featuring brass, guts, words and skins, Flap! formed during an informal jam at the 2007 Port Fairy Folk Festival. True to those roots they’ve since gone on to become firm festival favorites country wide having torn it up everywhere from Port Fairy to Woodford, Falls, Adelaide Fringe, Apollo Bay, Melbourne Jazz, Rainbow Serpent, the National Folk Festival and many … Continue reading Introducing…Flap!
All Those Girls comes from Jolie Holland’s excellent new album Pint Of Blood (Anti- Records). a Visit her website here. Continue reading New Video From Jolie Holland
Jolie Holland’s Escondida album contains one of our most favourite songs in Old Fashioned Morphine so we were delighted to get news of a new album Pint Of Blood, which will get a release on 28th June via Anti- Records. Try the evocative, sweeping grandeur of Gold And Yellow – it showcases that honeyed and sultry voice to perfection! Continue reading New Album from Jolie Holland
Mrs Mackerel is a big fan of retro and vintage fashions and the iconic styles of the 50s. That being the case, the new album from Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside could be the perfect choice for a soundtrack. Dirty Radio is bursting with swinging roots rock, rockabilly rhythms, country, jazz and blues – and all the dots on the musical spectrum are joined up … Continue reading Introducing…Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
You never quite know what you’re going to get from the cult Portland, Oregon psychedelicists, Jackie-O Motherfucker. Are you going to be in for some deep brain thrombosis space rock? Are they going to prescribe you a dose of some heavily medicated camp fire drone? Will they be hitting you with some improvisational and angular free jazz? Well, on Earth Sound System, the band’s 15th … Continue reading New Album From Jackie-O Motherfucker
Another month, another mix. A collection of twenty or so of the best tunes we posted in April plus a couple of tasty new ones. Download, hit play, relax. Download Ha Ha Tonka – Usual Suspects mp3 (from Death Of A Decade) Soulful, catchy, country rock. Download Sweet Lights – The Shortest Man On Earth mp3 (from Digital Single) Beautifully judged excursion into the world of classic sunshine and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: April 2011
Becca Stevens is a New York-based singer, composer and instrumentalist whose debut for Sunnyside Records, Weightless, was released yesterday. It is her second album, following Tea Bye Sea, which she self-released in 2008. In addition to eight original compositions, the album features interpretations of songs by Animal Collective, Iron & Wine, Seal, and The Smiths. Bold stuff, but thankfully her lovely vocals and words float … Continue reading Introducing…Becca Stevens
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