Exactly a week ago we gave you the wonderful So It Goes from Meredith Adelaide and Josh Schroeder. In the seven days that have elapsed they have put up a new song for free download from their Bandcamp page (or indeed just below this text). Where Are You? is a more straight-forward indie ballad that this time has a more epic quality as it quietly … Continue reading More from Josh Schroeder & Meredith Adelaide
London bluesman, Duke Garwood is set to release Dreamboatsafari, his first release for Fire Records, tomorrow. We’ve already given you Jesus Got A Gun and now we have another offering of sparse folk-blues for you in the shape of the skeletal and unsettling Summer Gold. Download Duke Garwood – Summer Gold mp3 (from Dreamboatsafari) Download Duke Garwood – Jesus Got A Gun mp3 (from Dreamboatsafari) Continue reading More from Duke Garwood, new album released tomorrow
Here are three gems of garage rock/punk/pop joy for you, especially designed to brighten up a drab and dreary January Sunday. We’ve posted about the Mind Spiders and the Thick Shakes before. Both play a wonderfully uncluttered, joyous form of proto garage-rock that is simple, unaffected and damn catchy. We have a track from the forthcoming Mind Spiders self-titled album and the Thick Shakes new … Continue reading Let’s Go Garage…
We posted in October about arch Teeside noisemongers The Chapman Family and the video for their excellent single All Fall. The band are preparing the release of their much anticipated debut album Burn Your Town and their next single Anxiety, both out in March and if anything, the video for this one is even better. And, more importantly, it is another cracking song. Watch here … Continue reading New Single & Video from The Chapman Family
A while ago we posted the magnificently titled Balding College Girls by The Hairs, a lo-fi, jangly diy masterpiece. Now they’re back with the equally magnificently titled Jack Becomes A Policewoman and it is another quirky, garage pop gem. Visit their MySpace here. Download The Hairs – Jack Becomes A Policewoman mp3 (from Hairs Make Music) Download The Hairs – Balding College Girls mp3 Continue reading New from The Hairs
Michigan quartet Ghost Heart are about to release their debut album, The Tunnel, which will be available from January 29, on Friction Records. The band happily defy all pigeonholes and categorisation…there is some folk, some electronica, some samples, some tribal percussion, even a bit of shoegaze guitar sound, and all is topped off with layered vocals to deliver songs that are equally expansive and accessible, … Continue reading Introducing…Ghost Heart
Actually, it’s been a week I’d rather forget in many respects. I’m losing heart in what I do because some of the people I deal with. Even going all legal does not seem to discourage their propensity to lie. So, to lighten the sombre mood, I asked MM: me versus Genetic experiment Mark 2 – who wins? Sometimes a virtual vigilante is what’s needed; it’s … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (21st Jan)
Gay Pirates is the first single from the new Cosmo Jarvis album Is the World Strange or am I Strange? (scheduled for release late March 2011). It tells the story of two male lovers facing extreme discrimination in the inhospitable and, as you can imagine, far from accepting social climate of the pirate heyday. The single is about the triumph of love against all odds and … Continue reading New Single from Cosmo Jarvis
Here at MM, The Mountain Goats are a bit of a marmite band, you either love ’em (Barry-Sean) or you don’t (Mrs M) and there’s not much grey area in between. So there will probably be delight and complete indifference in equal measure at the imminent release of new album All Eternals Deck and advance taster Damn These Vampires. I actually think this horror inflected … Continue reading Mountain Goats: New Album Taster
We first heard this just before Christmas on Radio 6 and meant to post about it, but good intentions were swept away by the deluge of festivities. Better late than never though… Lead singer and bassist of Manchester indie legends A Certain Ratio, Jez Kerr has plenty of musical heritage to draw on being in at the beginning of the rise of Factory and dipping … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Jez Kerr
