Brooklyn quartet and fuzzpop advocates Beast Make Bomb have just released a cover of Harvey Danger’s late-90s classic Flagpole Sitta. Watch it and download it. a Download Beast Make Bomb – Flagpole Sitta mp3 (Harvey Danger cover) Download Beast Make Bomb – It Snowed Last Night mp3 (from Skinny Legs) Continue reading MM Shorts 134: Beast Make Bomb Cover Harvey Danger
The Plastic Pals left a mark on the European garage and Americana scene with their debut album Good Karma Café a few years back. This time around the band are offering up single, Leave It ‘Til Tomorrow as a taster of their forthcoming new album. This is heroin disco chic in the style of the Velvet Underground and Berlin-era Bowie. Download it below. a Continue reading Introducing >>> The Plastic Pals
We included Town Hall in our massive video round-up yesterday and today they are releasing their first ‘official’ music video for Good Boy, a new single from their forthcoming album Roots And Bells, which is out on April 15th. a Good Boy is a free download from their Bandcamp page too. a Continue reading New Town Hall Single & Video
Sad Baby Wolf have covered Neutral Milk Hotel’s early classic Everything Is. Instead of trying to bring the track to a more modern place, the band embraced the distinct ’90s sound that Neutral Milk Hotel helped shape. SBW makes the song their own though, with Maury Crandall’s more prominent drumming and Marty Crandall’s vocals giving the song a more cohesive feel than the original. The … Continue reading Sad Baby Wolf Cover Neutral Milk Hotel
Young Hines and Readymade Records are gearing up for the April 10th release of his new album Give Me My Change with a free download of the confrontational and trigger-happy punkish blues of Can’t Explode. Download Young Hines – Can’t Explode mp3 (from Give Me My Change)a Continue reading MM Shorts 133: Young Hines
Videos seem to accumulate in our in-box faster than we have a hope of watching them. However, having sat and watched and watched and watched and then watched some more, this then is our selection of the best we’ve seen. Wet Nuns are a band we like a lot singing songs as they do about women, death and beer. This is the video for Heavens … Continue reading Huge Video Round Up…MM Has Square Eyes!
Thrill Jockey are rapidly gaining a firm place in our affections with their uniquely off-kilter and diverse offerings making them a label to treasure. The latest release to cross our in-box comes from idiosyncratic singer-songwriter Alexander Tucker. Notwithstanding the sleeve art for Third Mouth, which Mrs M for one will find most acceptable, this record breaks new ground for Tucker by combining minimalist string arrangements … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Alexander Tucker
D.B. Rouse who we have featured a couple of times on MM dropped us a line to tell us about Make Good Choices, a free digital compilation that features 15 different bands and musicians from across the US, the majority of whom were found in the Austin, TX area. Of course it includes Mr Rouse himself, which should tell you something about the quality contained therein. Other artists … Continue reading Check Out The Make Good Choices Free Digital Compilation
A new month, a new free digital mix from Insound available for a tweet, e-mail or Facebook Like. This month features seventeen quality tracks from, amongst others, Beach House, Crocodiles, DZ Deathrays, Eternal Summers, John Maus, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, Races, and Zambri. Click here to get the whole thing, but be quick as it is only available for a week or so, … Continue reading Insound’s April Free Mix
On April 17th Art Fag Recordings are releasing the debut record by Yohuna. Revery was originally self released in a tiny edition of 50 cassettes. Now, remastered, it’s being released on 7″, cassette and digitally worldwide. With a Casio keyboard, layered vocal arrangements and vehement, minimal beats, she writes sedated, downbeat anthems. Sounds and lyrics drip with moody reference to past love, loss, reflection and … Continue reading Introducing >>> Yohuna
