We’ve posted the chilled indie lo-fi of Philadelphia’s Work Drugs a couple of times and they will be releasing an album, Tropic of Cancer/Capricorn to support their forthcoming tour. First single is the excellently named Curious Serge. Investigate below. Visit their website here, or Bandcamp here. Download Work Drugs – Curious Serge mp3 (Digital Single) See them live with Two Door Cinema Club in April. 06 … Continue reading Work Drugs Album Release
Soulful, country rockers Ha Ha Tonka release their new album Death Of A Decade on 5th April via Bloodshot Records. To be honest, we’d never really clicked with the band before now. However, lead track Usual Suspects has changed all that! So much so, that while we look forward to the new record, we’re going to be going back to the old stuff and listening … Continue reading Ha Ha Tonka To Release Death Of A Decade
We posted the excellent single release Deadbeat by Brooklyn’s Hunters back in early February. A song we described as “The Vaselines making music with The Ruts on a chaotic acid binge.” Now we have a track from their self-titled, name your price EP, which is available here on Bandcamp. Visceral, tribal, and anthemic. Start your weekend with a bang! Download Hunters – Brat Mouth mp3 … Continue reading More from Hunters
We’re back to Friday (just). There’s no fool like an April fool, ay MM? MM and I continue to be perplexed about why the long lost post of last May (Happy Anniversary Mrs Mackerel) remains in the top ten posts. Is it because the title was written in caps? There’s bugger all to it, really. Best make MM write something really special this anniversary. Speaking … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (1st April)
Another bonanza month. Another round up of the very best tracks we posted in March. Another selection of new tunes to get your teeth into too. So without further ado… Download White Denim – Drug mp3 (from D) First taste of rockers new album. Bodes well. Very well. Download The Everymen – Ballad Of Sarin mp3 (from Hello, Nice Evening. We Are The Everymen) Cocksure but not … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March
Brown Bird’s 2009 album The Devil Dancing was an unheralded, under-rated classic bursting with sparse, haunted folk tunes, outlaw country and gypsy riots. In the brilliant and menacing Wrong Black Mare was a tune that turned up in plenty of the MM contributors end of year best of lists. So cue much rejoicing and metaphorical high fives when we discovered Brown Bird had a new 4 track … Continue reading New from Brown Bird…MM Rejoices
Here is Rotten To The Core from the Builders & The Butchers latest excellent effort, Dead Reckoning. It is the song that is, to us here at MM at least, the rollicking, hollering centrepiece of the record. The song that calls to mind the blood and thunder preachers in dusty pulpits, the hellfires and the brimstone, and the intense fury of both the righteous and … Continue reading More from the Builders & The Butchers
Rowdy London five-piece The Amusements have released debut digital single The Trip – with loud-as-fuck guitars punctuated with a catchy keyboard riff you can strut to – the track packs a crippling punch to the senses in its short 1.56 running time. The tune is firmly rooted in its influences from 60s-psych garage to early 80s hardcore, with singer Luke Barshack’s erratic, growling vocals recalling … Continue reading Introducing…The Amusements
Back in June last year we posted about Alegrias, an exceptional album from Howe Gelb with his Band of Gypsies that was recorded atop a Cordoba roof in the Andalucía sun. Originally only available in Spain, where the record enjoyed considerable success due in part to the wondrous contribution from Flamenco guitar virtuoso Raimundo Amador, Fire Records will be releasing the album in the USA in May. … Continue reading Howe Gelb & A Band Of Gypsies to release Alegrias in the USA
They may look like shy bookish types, but the ten librarians of the baroque indie pop group Michael J Epstein Memorial Library know how to make some noise. Their songs are sweet with tinges of darkness and bring to mind Magnetic Fields and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Michael J Epstein Memorial Library’s, Volume One, which is full of cleverly written tunes taken from … Continue reading Introducing…Michael J Epstein Memorial Library
