Beautiful September is here – a time of change and of new beginnings. A little bit of a shakedown in the old familiar recipes and a slight alteration to the seasoning: that’s all it takes to have a new perspective. The sprats have returned to school and MM and I rejoin the hamster wheel of life, resolving as we ever do to make more time … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
We have recently posted about the forthcoming album from rootsy country-soulsters The Duke & The King, and they have now announced you can get a free album track download, Shine On You, from their website. To grab it, just click here. The album is out on the 27th September on Loose Music / Silva Oak. And if you don’t have this gorgeous track from their … Continue reading The Duke & The King offer free download
After five years spent scuzzing up New York’s club circuit, the Rakehells have finally hit the recording studio. The result is a blistering 15-track album (out on September 21) that harnesses the band’s influences the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, the Stooges, et al, as well as more contemporary bands like Guns N’ Roses and Metallica. The album, Please Yourself; or, the Devil in the Flesh, certainly captures … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Rakehells
Here is our usual round-up of the best songs we’ve posted in August together with a couple of our favourite covers and three new songs to tempt you. Another perfect mix tape we think. Black Angels – Telephone mp3 Gentler psych-pop approach from new album calling to mind classic era Zombies Dreamend – Magnesium Light mp3 Superb psych-folk from the loosely joined and hellish story … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: August
Justin Townes Earle, son of MM fave and legendary troubadour Steve Earle, releases his new album Harlem River Blues on the 20th September through Bloodshot Records. It is one we are looking forward to immensely. To mark the UK releases, he has made the title-track available as a free mp3 download – just click this link to get your copy. He will also be touring the … Continue reading Free download from Justin Townes Earle
We had a pretty unassuming e-mail through recently from Roy Paymon mentioning his recently released album Guarding Crows. He described it as a mixture of Appalachian folk and Greek Cretan music and he recorded and produced it himself on bare bones equipment in Brooklyn. The whole album is streaming on his website here, but he also sent us a couple of tracks to listen to … Continue reading Introducing…Roy Paymon
We were particularly delighted to get an e-mail from Secretly Canadian yesterday with details of the new War On Drugs album titled Future Weather. The record follows their debut release Wagonwheel Blues, which was a truly brilliant record mixing straight up US rock with experimental folk and psychedelia, and was one of our favourites of 2008. In fact we had to buy it twice as … Continue reading New from War On Drugs
Tear Them Down is the debut single from David’s Lyre and has justifiably been picking up a lot of positive press and major label interest. The song is a cracker and has echoes of Wild Beasts without quite the vocal histrionics and you can view it the official video for it below. While you would certainly put him in the Folk corner, there is definitely … Continue reading Introducing…David’s Lyre
Pepper Rabbit have a great name. They play a lovely blend of folk with chamber leanings and an occasional twisted, slightly psych-pop edge. They are currently out on tour in support of Cotton Jones and following two EPs last year, have a debut album Beauregard via Kanine Records due imminently. We’re loving the taster track Older Brother for its giddy exuberance, warm chorus and mix of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Pepper Rabbit
Thee Sgt. Major III’s first full-length, The Idea Factory, contains the wit, optimism and feisty schoolboy angst that Kurt Bloch articulated in his songwriting for seminal punk band The Fastbacks and the sparky guitar chug that beloved The Fastbacks to so many. Expert musicianship and high-cool grace are tempered by scrappy garage punk leanings, jazz longings, and a winking kind of macabre, not at all serious, … Continue reading Introducing…Thee Sgt. Major III
