Hot on the heels of yesterday’s post about the new album from A Place To Bury Strangers comes a similar announcement from another of our favourite experimental noiseniks, Liars. Titled WIXIW (pronounced “wish you”), the 11-track album will be preceded by a single, No.1 Against The Rush. Listen to it by heading to their Facebook page here. Continue reading MM Shorts 132: New Album From Liars
You Are The One is the first, bone shaking taste of the new album, Worship from dark, visceral and explosive indie rockers A Place To Bury Strangers. You can download it for free below. Worship is out on June 26th via Dead Oceans. See them live in May 08 – London, Cargo 09 – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds 10 – Manchester, Sound Control 11 – Glasgow, … Continue reading MM Shorts 131: New Album From A Place To Bury Strangers
In his new full-length CD release, Tired Ghostly Town (out May 21 on Plan-It-X South), Chicago-based songwriter and instrumentalist Al Scorch and his backing band, the Country Soul Ensemble craft literate, character-driven songs with Mid-American roots and a post-punk DIY attitude. The protagonist wishing for a pair of gold cuff links to accompany his beau to her daddy’s funeral; the deserting Civil War soldier headed across destroyed cotton fields beckoning to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Al Scorch & The Country Soul Ensemble
One of our very favourite UK labels, Loose Music is releasing Deer Tick’s outstanding fourth album Divine Providence in the UK. If you read our Albums of the Year post at the end of 2011, you’ll know just how much we loved this rollicking, swaggering, raw, boozy record. It is out in the UK today. Buy it together with the bonus five track Tim EP from … Continue reading Deer Tick’s Divine Providence Gets UK Release
Here is our cherry picked selection of our favourite downloads from March for you, together with a few new tracks to create a perfect end-of-month mix. Enjoy. Download Thee Exciters – Dinosaur Traffic mp3 (from Perpetual Happening) Psychedelia meets proto-punk Download The Lonesome Savages – All Outta Love mp3 (from All Outta Love 7″) 50s inflected rock’n’roll revamped and updated with elements of the current garage punk sound – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March 2012
Insound have made another of their free Vinyl News mixtape’s available – the March edition features eleven tracks from Denison Witmer, Food Pyramid, Glow Kit, Japandroids, Jennifer Castle, Julia Holter, The Larchmont Trash and more. You can grab a couple of our own favourites from the selection below or just head here and swap a tweet, Facebook like or e-mail address to get the whole thing for … Continue reading MM Shorts 130: Insound’s March Vinyl News Mixtape
Through eight albums on Bloodshot, the Waco Brothers have blurred the line between country and punk with music brimming with grim romanticism, and joyous, near ecstatic, drunken stomps. Paul Burch is a Nashville songwriting treasure. It turns out that the rawness and rowdiness of the former, so at home in the blue collar and punk rock dives of Chicago, shares an emotional camaraderie with the traditionally minded … Continue reading Waco Brothers & Paul Burch To Release Great Chicago Fire
a Bang on the money this week, arriving on fishy Friday, right on time. I even sit here sweetly sipping sparkling water, but then again the sun is not even in sight of the yard arm. Nursing a spot of lower back pain having taken the dog (and myself) for a run this morning in the wrong trainers (a bit like Wallace really, except not … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (30th March)
On Tuesday 2nd April Sexbeat will release the first offering from Virginia Wing (It’s Grace Slick’s mom’s name), featuring current members of Lets Wrestle. The release will be limited to 50 on Gold Cassettes – you can hear the two tracks Divination and A Worn Path below. They are two tunes of cracking psych-rock that effortlessly weave in elements of chamber pop and pastoral folk harmonies, … Continue reading Introducing >>> Virginia Wing
We’ve already posted one pummeling track from New Jersey’s Screaming Females from forthcoming album, Ugly. Here’s another, Expire. Download Screaming Females – Expire mp3 (from Ugly) Download Screaming Females – It All Means Nothing mp3 (from Ugly) Continue reading MM Shorts 129: Another From Screaming Females
