Here we are again, a round up of twenty five of June’s best downloads on Mad Mackerel (plus a few new tunes) that combine to make another perfect mix for those long summer days. Stick these on the iPod, crack a cold one, relax and enjoy! Honeyslide – Drippin Swathed in reverb, bathed in noise and drowned in dreamy vocals. [Click through for free download] … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: June 2013
Kickstart your weekend with a sleazy, adrenalin fuelled shot of The Floors, who are releasing a new single of bluesy, sonic mayhem, Built From Bones, on limited 7” vinyl. The b-side is taken from last year’s debut album Dead Beat – the wonderful delta blues bump ‘n’ grind of Pick Up Your Bones. Naturally, with two songs mentioning bones, the tour to support this little gem is called…The Bones Tour. … Continue reading MM Shorts 391: The Floors
Videos this morning from Low for Plastic Cup (one of our favourite songs of the year so far), and from ‘slowcore’ to the sonic mayhem of Destruction Unit and their video for Sonic Pearl. We also have intelligent, sophisticated indie-pop from Big Scary and their video for Luck Now. Finally in Guanajuato, Mexico, nine girls bail out of two 4x4s and immediately start their freaky dancing … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Low || Destruction Unit || Big Scary || Hooded Fang
Believe it or not, Mad Mackerel has been around for more than five years now. During that time we’ve posted more than 4,000 times, and offered more than 5,000 songs for your listening pleasure. And more than three quarters of a million people have paid MM a visit during our lifetime on Google’s godawful blogspot and since April 2010 on WordPress. We asked some of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel The Last Five Years – Dr Roddy Looks Back
Q: I need to screw up my Friday. Have you got any backwoods psychedelic doom rock? A: Windhand Buy the split single with Cough via Bandcamp. . Continue reading MM Shorts 375: Windhand
We missed Dirty Fences at SXSW and we’re kicking ourselves… The band refer to themselves as a gang and that mentality is evident in every razor sharp riff and perfectly executed harmony on Too High To Kross, an album that evokes early American rock and punk acts such as Red Kross, MC5, Johnny Thunders, The Ramones and The Stooges. However those names are just reference points … Continue reading New Album From Dirty Fences
Music vids today range from the death-punk of Turbonegro’s You Give Me Worms to the classic warm Americana of Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors and the equally arresting protest Americana of the Annabelle Chvostek Ensemble. Finally enjoy the acoustic simplicity and warm harmonies of Gold Star with intricate fingerpicking and ambient organ, wurlitzer and steel guitar. Pick up a free download from his self-titled EP too. . . (Click through … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Turbonegro || Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors || Annabelle Chvostek Ensemble || Gold Star
The video for Blackbird & The Storm’s track Broken Wings was shot on Super 8 last summer in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. It perfectly suits the samples of crickets, toads, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, hummingbirds, songbirds and wings-in-flight which are mixed alongside musical instruments and Marie-Juliette Bird’s intoxicating voice. We also have the irreverent and effervescent indie rock of Crash & The Coots and their video for … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Blackbird & The Storm || Crash & The Coots || The Blackwater Fever || Loch Lomond
We are hugely impatient for the release of Indigo Meadow, the new album from The Black Angels due on the 2nd April. The band have now offered up a second song from the record, Evil Things focuses on a man and a woman on opposite sides of a conflict who meet on a war-torn battlefield. This one pushes at the furthermost boundaries of the bands sonic cannon, … Continue reading New Song From The Black Angels
We start with apologies aplenty for the lack of interesting and cogent words to accompany this post of many new, and excellent tunes. We are regularly afflicted by an internal conflict as to whether we use our time to write the original, erudite prose some of the songs we are sent deserve (as many of the much better, and smarter blogs than ours do), but … Continue reading MM’s (Slightly Lazy) Friday Round Up
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