Here are a couple of treats for Valentine’s Day. Firstly MM faves Two Wounded Birds who featured heavily in the MM Best of 2010 lists have made a new track available especially for Valentine’s Day. Treat Me Tender is a typically Spector-drenched track with a plaintive, pleading lyric and a vocal delivery Richard Hawley would be proud of. It will be up for a limited … Continue reading Just for Valentine’s Day
The Raveonettes will return to stereos on the 5th April with the release of new album Raven In The Grave. After the best part of a decade honing their instantly recognizable sound and seeing it co-opted by so many other bands aspiring for a similar level of greatness, the Danish-bred, American-based fuzz pop duo is blazing a newer, darker trail with their new record – … Continue reading The Raveonettes Announce New Album
Indianapolis band Jookabox has decided to throw in the towel, and The Eyes of the Flyis their last cryptic transmission via Asthmatic Kitty on April 26. This recording is the final chapter in the history of a band as bizarre, anxious, and confusing as the music it makes. They are a band we’ve always had a soft spot for. A band whose imagery echoes ghosts, zombies, decay, and … Continue reading Jookabox announce new album and call it quits!
This song has popped up on a few dog walks recently. It makes us think this is what it would be like if the Beach Boys played folk music – a wonderful sense of melody and intricate rhythms played with a joyous abandon and sense of fun. Check out The Understanding from their forthcoming album – it is a little gem. Visit their MySpace here. … Continue reading Introducing…Jones Street Station
Back last summer we posted about White Dress and their self-titled EP full of songs quivering with tension, menace and despair. Here is the video for a new song I’m Smoke. Looks good! You can still pick up her previous releases from cdbaby here or on eMusic. You can visit her MySpace here. Download White Dress – Five Feet Of Road mp3 (from White Dress EP) Download White Dress … Continue reading New from White Dress
It’s just as well my brother’s an absolute diamond. Sisters – apparently, we share the same gene pool! I find that utterly amazing. That aside, I’ve decided that all this and that which has gone past for the last two or three years, is just life lessons, condensed. Interesting week, nevertheless. A trip to Oxford with long-tall-Jenny to see the wonderful Sea of Bees and … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (11th Feb)
Take a boatload of eclectic instruments, big sing-a-long choruses and multi vocalists who can nail their harmonies, throw in songs that have more hooks than your grand daddy’s tackle box, and you get Pariah Beat’s sophomore effort, Bury Me Not. Like a dirt-encrusted buzzsaw from the past, moving forward with the weight of a freight train behind it, Bury Me Not injects youthful vigour into … Continue reading Introducing…Pariah Beat
What Would Jesus Drive featured prominently in the Top Ten lists of Christy-Popper and Dr Roddy with their blend of caustic electro-indie rock. In advance of debut album Black and Blue (due in March) they are releasing a new EP Fragile Mansions. Deciding not to tamper with a winning formula, the EP gleefully reminds the listener where the soul of a lost punk generation lies – … Continue reading Free EP from What Would Jesus Drive
A psychedelic-dark-pop group from Ohio, Wolf Ram Heart is bent on marrying art with popular music. Their new album, Betrayal of Hearts, is a hybrid of pop’s faded echoing sensibilities, influenced by the productions of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson as much as 4AD and Creation Records acts of the early 90s. The band’s music combines heavily layered moments and deceptively complex melodies, all sewn … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Wolf Ram Heart
Mess Around is the debut EP by Milwaukee’s Trent Fox & The Tenants. It’s five tracks of garage infused rock n roll with added swagger and a whole bunch of attitude. It is out on the 22nd February on the Kind Turkey label. Their songs are all grimy snapshots of young adult life in Riverwest, Milwaukee – one of the poorest and most economically devastated … Continue reading Introducing…Trent Fox & The Tenants
