1. PAWS – Owls Talons Clenching My Heart 2. Popstrangers – Don’t Be Afraid 3. Young Widows – The Money 4. Hamilton Leithauser – 11 O’Clock Friday Night 5. Dub Thompson – No Time . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Perfectly complimenting our previous post about White Lung are New York City’s premier psychedelic swamp rock unit DeGreaser. Words In Your Mouth is the pulverising first track from their forthcoming long-player Rougher Squalor. . Continue reading MM Shorts 553: DeGreaser
Brown Sabbath is the alter ego of Austin-based psych-funk collective Brownout who delve deep into reinterpreting the catalogue of metal godfathers, Black Sabbath. They remain true to the darkness, bombast and fuzz of Sabbath’s sound, while re-imagining the music with greasy Afro-Latin horns, hypnotic percussion and psyched-out, rare-groove improvisation. Their debut single Hand Of Doom, featuring The Black Angels’ Alex Maas on vocals, is set … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Brown Sabbath
Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
Our five music films come today from Ruby the RabbitFoot and her beguiling track Ways, from Daddy Lion and their new video for No Solution But Resolution. Then we turn it up a bit with Hounds’ cover of the classic Ministry track Stigmata, the Strokes style swagger of Made Violent’s anthem of youthful decadence Wasted Days and lastly together PANGEA’s give us a glimpse into their world with … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Ruby The Rabbitfoot || Daddy Lion || Hounds || Made Violent || Together Pangea
Lights is the latest single from West Yorkshire excellent progressive psych-rockers Formes. Kicking off like a long-lost Pink Floyd classic, the track builds from a dreamlike, otherworldly introduction until it kicks into gear a minute or so in, ebbing and flowing on the back of a hypnotic guitar riff. Half-way through, the song takes off fully into space rock territory, driven by epic drums, synths … Continue reading Formes – Lights
We have loved the first two tracks, the fabulously filthy North Hollywood Microwaves and pummelling riffage of Ambulance City, shared from the forthcoming Pink Mountaintops album Get Back. Here is the official video for the latter. Brilliant stuff. . . . . Continue reading Video: Pink Mountaintops – Ambulance City
A few very choice tunes have come our way recently and which for one reason or another we’ve been slow to post them. So here is a quick and dirty round up of some of them! First up the very welcome return of the wonderful Pink Mountaintops and the first taste from their forthcoming album Get Back. We also have the brilliant Bass Drum Of … Continue reading Round Up Time
Our first collection of free downloads from the new year taken from the best of our posts for January. Twenty tracks to tickle your fancy including, as always, a few new ones. Dig in. The Woodgrains – Nobody Too Lysergic folk-rock anchored by three part harmonies and an instinctive feel for classic songwriting. . The Rebel Set – Monster Vintage crash and snarl – a … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2014
Jessica Lea Mayfield captured our attention with her brilliant, sultry 2008 debut With Blasphemy So Heartfelt (from which Kiss Me Again remains a playlist regular) and then captured our hearts with a fabulous solo set at the End of the Road Festival a couple of years later. She released the excellent Tell Me in 2011 and last year delivered one of the covers of the … Continue reading Jessica Lea Mayfield – Oblivious
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