The new video for Blitzen Trapper’s Stranger In A Strange Land from their American Goldwing album features landscapes found in Nome, Alaska, where there are no indigenous trees or mountains within plain sight, interspersing footage of the Iditarod finish line, the Bering Sea, and singer Eric Earley with shivery hand-held pans in 20 below zero conditions. a Continue reading MM Shorts 144: New Blitzen Trapper Video
I hear the train a comin’, it’s rolling round the bend… This term’s inaugural school journey saw the introduction of Johnny Cash week, in my attempt to give the sprats an all-round musical education. We’ll spin the bottle and see where it lands next week – everyone a winner! Frankly, not much to laugh about this week. Little Liberty and HP still marooned in hospital; … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (20th April)
We’ve posted a couple of times about melancholic, wise-before-his-years, south London singer-songwriter Ned Younger, aka Monument Valley. His latest single is the darkly tender Your Cover Blown, which is starkly informed by the death of one of his closest friends and sees a release on May 21st via community label Everybody’s Stalking. It is sure to bring more praise and critical acclaim his way. Watch the perfectly … Continue reading Monument Valley’s New Single
We first mentioned the scuzzy country rock and bar-room boogie of Aussies Black Creek back in November when we posted a track from their album Ragged Shark. They are back with a new digital single titled Not For The Faint Of Heart backed with Gone Is The Darkness and it is another muscular example of their ragged, raw take on Americana, a sound they describe as … Continue reading New From Black Creek
The track Juarez by St Augustines has rapidly become a firm favourite in the Mackerel household over the past few weeks, and many a reference to rattlesnake guts have been made by the sprats recently. Opportune then that we should receive details of a new video to accompany the song. The clip captures a road trip across the border towns of the Southwest as an … Continue reading MM Shorts 143: St Augustines Video
In the 1980s Crass, and their whole anarchist commune collective, was a huge influence on my safe, rural, middle-class upbringing and made me aware of political issues and wider moral injustices that I may otherwise never have been. For that reason alone I will always have a fondness for them and the many bands like Zounds, Conflict, The Mob and others that appeared on their … Continue reading Win Win Cover Crass
The curiously named HOboken Division are a French delta-blues/garage duo that recently released their self-titled debut EP via Bandcamp. Their description of their music as ‘the wedding of blues and rock in the sludge’ gives fair warning of what to expect. This is sleazy, rapacious stuff evoking the long dead spirits of the bluesmen and of greasy, out-for-kicks rock ‘n’ rollers. But that’s not all … Continue reading Introducing >>> HOboken Division
The Lumineers have been generating a lot of buzz recently following the release of their self-titled debut album earlier this month. As a celebration of the release they are making a four track EP, Tracks From The Attic, available for free from Noisetrade. Their sound is a mix of barnstorming Americana, stomp-and-clap rock and front-porch folk and the EP offers an early glimpse into the … Continue reading Free EP From The Lumineers
There is always room int the world for more music that combines fuzz-guitar, dulcet feedback and contorted, echo-soaked vocal harmonies. So it is with Glasgow-via-Berlin noise-pop collective, Laurence and the Slab Boys, with their debut single, Mushroom, released on Monday 28th May 2012 via Grumpy Recordings. Lets just say it owes less to the Beach Boys than it does to drunken pirate shanties. Have a watch/listen. a a Continue reading MM Shorts 142: Laurence and the Slab Boys
Coke Weed were one of our favourite discoveries of last year and their new album Nice Dreams has been seducing us further and further with each play – each track like tendrils of fog swirling round your head, elusive and smoky, but gradually revealing their irresistible delights. They have made a video for new single, Jimmy which they are also giving away as a free … Continue reading More From Coke Weed
