So we exit April, which true to form turned out to be wetter than a Mackerel’s handshake. No matter, banish the blues with this scorching mix of some of the best downloads we offered in the month, plus a few new ones to get to know and love too. Download Alexander Tucker – Window Sill mp3 (from Third Mouth) Minimalist string arrangements with electronic manipulations … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: April 2012
Trawling Bandcamp can from time to time reveal the most extraordinary treasures – more often than not they are free or a nominal ‘pay what you want deal’ and so here are ten of the bands that have been tickling the Mackerel’s fancy recently. First up is uncompromising garage-punk noiseniks The Bats Pajamas who have featured on MM before and have a new EP called … Continue reading Ten Bandcamp Treasures
More trains this week, but this time I’m on one. The 12.06 from Oxford to be precise, wending it’s way slowly northwards, leaving MM in charge of the home fixtures. I’ll be stopping off at Darlo to check in with Harry, before docking in the land of MON to see my Ma. It’s a bit packed underneath my wing at the moment. It might be … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (27th April)
Here are a few tasty streams for you to hit the play button on, and a couple to download too. First, some new blissed-out, hypnotic psychedelia from White Fence who have a new three track single out titled Green Balloon via Sexbeat Records in Europe – limited to 500 vinyl copies, and we’ve just pre-ordered one of them… a Next up is the altogether more … Continue reading Streaming Round Up
This month’s Mojo magazine cover CD is a re-imagining of the Beach Boys classic Pet Sounds. A tribute to their seminal 1966 album, it features The Flaming Lips, Neil Cowley Trio, Saint Etienne, Jodie Marie, Gaz Coombes, Tim Burgess, Jeffrey Lewis with Wooden Wand, Here We Go Magic and more. Two of our favourites below – you can buy Mojo at any decent newsagents or … Continue reading Mojo Magazine’s Pet Sounds Revisited
Only The Sea Slugs is an oddball band name and perfectly suits the Sydney five piece’s skewed and dark-hearted pop sound. They are one of those bands for whom one word descriptions can work very well: melancholic, brooding, twisted, dark, hypnotic, moody, absorbing. You get the picture, but actually put them all together and you start to get a far better sense of what they … Continue reading New Single From Only The Sea Slugs
So much can happen in one week, even when you feel that time stands still. Simone Felice at the Jericho Tavern, for example. There I was, MM photographer for the night, fins flailing, blinding everyone by inadvertently turning on the flash. Fortunately no-one asked me to leave, particularly as it was such a great gig. More like a front room jam. A couple of days … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (13th April)
It is time for us to offer up eight more new songs for your listening pleasure. We have a Madonna cover from Magic Wands, and a Nirvana cover from Dive. We have tracks from garage rockers Black Lips, garage-pop from The Creepy Crawlies and some fuzzy indie jangle from The Memories. Tiger High keep up the overriding theme of the day with some truly excellent garage-psych … Continue reading Wednesday Means Eight More Of The Best
Back in December we posted about Cardiff based noiseniks My Pet Monster and as we drove past same said city yesterday it seemed appropriate that we should post about their new five track EP Trudy Superstar. It is available now via their Bandcamp page for the princely sum of £3 – or you can download a free taste below if you fancy it. a Continue reading The Return Of My Pet Monster
We’ve long had a soft spot for Canadian indie rockers Wintersleep. Resuscitate is an intriguing first taste from forthcoming release Hello Hum, which is due to see the light of day on June 12th. Download Wintersleep – Resuscitate mp3 (from Hello Hum) Continue reading Free Download From Wintersleep
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