In 2008, Catherine Feeny drove 12,000 miles with her husband-to-be in a 1990 Mazda 323 called Swansong, playing more than 40 planned and impromptu shows in dens, living rooms and gardens all over the United States. She had just been dropped by her London-based record label and the situation called for radical action. “It was a break-up,” says Feeny. “I felt like I’d been kicked … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Catherine Feeny
This is one of those standard music blogger confessions. The “I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, but somehow never got round to it”. The injured party on this occasion is the marvellous Luther Russell and his Motorbike EP, which saw the light of day back in February. At the time we were hugely taken with the songs on the EP (which are taken … Continue reading Luther Russell – a late post…
This song is simply stunning! Elf Power formed in 1994 and over the last 16 years have released ten albums, two EPs, a handful of singles, while also touring America, Europe, and Japan. The Athens, Georgia pioneers have readied their tenth studio album for release – a self-titled, dozen-song song collection cementing their place as the flagship band of the celebrated psych-rock scene, which they helped … Continue reading New (and brilliant) release from Elf Power
The Vicious Guns are a Canadian duo featuring Jennie Vicious (vocals, bass) & Richey Vicious (guitar, vocals). Their music is characterized by lead female vocals, male harmonies, and impeccably clean, overdriven guitar tones against a backdrop of synthetic drums and samples. The two are influenced by a mutual love for political punk, glam, brit pop, and new wave. If you’re a fan of The Jesus … Continue reading Introducing…The Vicious Guns
New Yorkers Ball Of Flame Shoot Fire defy easy classification. Having released their well received, but little heard, debut Jokeland in 2008, their sophomore full-length is due in the autumn. They’ve spent the time since playing with a range of acts such as Yeasayer, Grizzly Bear and Mates Of State, and they will also be playing Brooklyn’s Northside Festival later this month. We have a couple … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Ball Of Flame Shoot Fire
The Japandroids have a second single due (out July 20th) as part of their series of 7″ records featuring previously unreleased tracks from their Post-Nothing sessions. Each single is backed with a unique cover version. This is another high velocity anthem titled Younger Us and purchasers of the record will find a cover of X’s Sex And Dying In High Society on the reverse. It follows … Continue reading New Japandroids Single
The brilliant Black Mountain are back with a new album WIlderness Heart (out September), and with some fantastic artwork too. First single and album taster is Old Fangs. It rocks. Visit their MySpace here. Buy previous albums from Amazon here. Download Black Mountain – Old Fangs mp3 (from Wilderness Heart) Continue reading New from Black Mountain
Midlands based four-piece The Vitamin Sees only played their first gig a couple of months ago. However, made up as they are of members of bands such as 90s indie faves Prolapse, Fence Records act Viva Stereo, Dirty Backbeats and Ambrose Tompkins they have the prerequisite musical chops to deliver. And deliver they do with Illuminati Mind Control, the demo track that they e-mailed through to us. … Continue reading Introducing…The Vitamin Sees
Part Company sound happy. The sound on Out Of Egypt is relentlessly upbeat in a nostalgic 60s fashion, mixing girl-group harmonies with a garage rock sensibility and all with a hazy 90s slacker feel overlaid on top. The result is a track that rolls along in a sunny swirl of drums, sing along choruses and a great twangy, guitar rhythm. There is not much information … Continue reading Introducing…Part Company
Mississippi Man are a Californian five piece who go by the names Mumbles, Grumbles, Stumbles, Fumbles and you guessed it Crumbles. That aside they play a superb blend of Americana and country-folk that had us hooked from the first moment we heard it. Wonderful harmonies, rhythms and instrumentation with an edge make this one of our finds of 2010 so far. They released the wonderfully … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Mississippi Man
