Strip-Lit Hell is the debut EP from Scotland’s Dog Moon Howl, available on a pay-what-you-want digital deal or CD for £4 via their Bandcamp page here. Their approach is a take-no-prisoners, full on sleazy blues and desert rock – imagine if you will Mark Lanegan duelling with Howling Wolf… Try the fearsome growl and grind of Blues Like A Hammer below. a Continue reading MM Shorts 152: Debut EP From Dog Moon Howl
So many new releases, so little time. Here are a few guaranteed to brighten up a Friday. Loving this new track, Yatton from Beak> in all its hypnotic, krautrock inspired glory. From a new album due in the summer. a In a similar vein, Arc In Round’s self-titled debut LP, being released June 26, by La Société Expéditionnaire, reflects a sensibility garnered from endless hours of … Continue reading New Releases Round Up
Insound are really pumping out the free digital mixes lately. Hot on the heels of their recent free Vinyl News mixtape now comes their free May mix. The sampler has thirteen great tracks from A Place to Bury Strangers, Alexander Tucker, Dunes, Edie Sedgwick, Eric Copeland, Exitmusic, Here We Go Magic, King Tuff, S. Carey and more! But remember kids, the sampler’s only available for the next week … Continue reading MM Shorts 150: Insound’s Free May Mix
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
We’ve already posted a couple of times about The Shrouded Strangers following our discovery of Featherbed, a skuzzy slacker anthem that is nothing less than a glorious amalgam of surf guitars, krautrock rhythms and fuzzed up hillbilly stomp. It comes from new album Lost Forever, a sputtering fever-dream of disembodied pop tunes and psych sing-alongs that comes out a mere 13 years after their debut – apparently … Continue reading More From The Shrouded Strangers
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
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
The track Juarez by St Augustines has rapidly become a firm favourite in the Mackerel household over the past few weeks, and many a reference to rattlesnake guts have been made by the sprats recently. Opportune then that we should receive details of a new video to accompany the song. The clip captures a road trip across the border towns of the Southwest as an … Continue reading MM Shorts 143: St Augustines Video
There is always room int the world for more music that combines fuzz-guitar, dulcet feedback and contorted, echo-soaked vocal harmonies. So it is with Glasgow-via-Berlin noise-pop collective, Laurence and the Slab Boys, with their debut single, Mushroom, released on Monday 28th May 2012 via Grumpy Recordings. Lets just say it owes less to the Beach Boys than it does to drunken pirate shanties. Have a watch/listen. a a Continue reading MM Shorts 142: Laurence and the Slab Boys
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