Round Up / Catch Up

We’re once again struggling with the in-box and a bunch of tunes that need sharing, but not the time to do them justice with the write-ups. Take our word for it though, these are all worth further investigation. LA skater punks, Criminal Hygiene offer up their latest single, Rearrange Me, a bitter ode to unhealthy relationships, full of rough and raspy vocals met with a … Continue reading Round Up / Catch Up

Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: November 2012

Even though Christmas is looming and the deluge of end-of-year best of lists are starting to appear on the horizon, November still gave us plenty of cracking new tunes to enjoy. Here are our pick of the best of the downloads from November’s posts, together with a few newbies to tickle the earbuds too. Dive in. Download Crushed Out – Push Down & Twist mp3 (from Want … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: November 2012

Free SEXBEAT Records Sampler 2012

With Christmas and New Year fast approaching the excellent SEXBEAT label have compiled this free mix of songs from each band they’ve released each year. The download includes tracks from Virals, Fear Of Men, Virginia Wing, White Fence, Sharm El Shakes and Eagulls. Click below to stream and download. Or just click here for the zip file of all six tracks. Continue reading Free SEXBEAT Records Sampler 2012

MM Shorts 273: Negative Pegasus

Brighton’s heavy psych-rockers Negative Pegasus release their new single Unimmortal on Monday 10th December. The first recording since the sessions for their debut LP Looming (released in September), the new track is a taut, slowly unfolding, paranoid whirlwind of subtly intertwined riffs and a motorcade of cascading drums. Unimmortal is accompanied by the same song unnaturally reversed and demonically stretched to become Uunniimmmmoorrttaall plus a remix of album favourite Black Thigh by … Continue reading MM Shorts 273: Negative Pegasus

Post-Consumer Records Offer “Name-Your-Price” December

Record label Post-Consumer is making its entire catalog (or catalogue if you’re in the UK) available throughout December on a name-your-price basis via Bandcamp. There is no minimum payment, and releases include the excellent fractured pop fairytales and melancholia of The Hand To Man Band and their album You Are Always On Our Minds (get it here), the acid-folk of Death Songs self-titled EP (get … Continue reading Post-Consumer Records Offer “Name-Your-Price” December