We’re currently away for a few days so apologies for the paucity of detail with this post, but here are six tunes that tip the scales on the noisy side for you to enjoy (and scare the cat with). First up we have the full-on stoner onslaught of psych-rockers White Hills with a taste from forthcoming album Frying On This Rock and a perfect companion piece … Continue reading Thursday Means Six Of The Best
It’s Valentines Day. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny it. I will, of course, effortlessly be showing Mrs M just what a lucky catch I was. And for the rest of you, by way of a massively contrived link, let us cover you with love too. Here is a tasty little mix of covers we’ve picked up to follow on from yesterday’s Bad … Continue reading It’s Valentines Day…
Time for another swift round-up of some of the best tunes into our in-box and from around our favourite music blogs. A little while ago we posted the video for Shrouded Strangers excellent track Featherbed, and now we have the mp3 for you as well. We also have the full-on power pop of Fort Lean and their new single Sunsick, some Swedish punk from new … Continue reading Sunday Means Eight Of The Best
Dig Your Grave is the title of a new 7″ EP from The Pharmacy which is as good an example of indie-pop-garage bliss as you’ll find. We included the title track in our January Best of the Month mix. Here is the equally good video for it – a super 8 mess of violence, fire and (what else) graveyards. a Buy it here. Or limited … Continue reading MM Shorts 93: The Pharmacy Video
Here are the best of our January posts together with a few tasty new tracks. All in all nearly forty great tunes compiled and neatly presented in one lovely mix. As always, don’t forget to check out all our previous monthly mixes listed in the sidebar on the left. Download Night Genes – Soaring Through The Chromosomes mp3 (from Like The Blood) Infectiously catchy, military folk stomp. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2012
Shrouded Strangers have just leapt to the top of our New Discoveries Most Anticipated List (if we actually had one that is), but no matter, this is the video to skuzzy slacker anthem Featherbed, a glorious amalgam of surf guitars, krautrock rhythms and fuzzed up hillbilly stomp. Just brilliant. It comes from new album Forever Lost which is described as a collection of disembodied pop … Continue reading MM Shorts 86: Shrouded Strangers Video
Mike Doughty releases his new album Yes And Also Yes on February 13th. Previously front man of Soul Coughing, he has also written a brutally honest and unflinching autobiography that catalogues the utterly dysfunctional nature of his band and his own descent into full-on drug addiction. The album is his fourth as a solo artist and it is immediately apparent that the man’s scalpel sharp … Continue reading New Solo Album From Mike Doughty
Young Prisms are a band from San Francisco who deliver a beguiling mix of dreamy psychedelia over a fuzz of shoegazey guitars and reverb. Floating In Blue is the first taste from new album In Between. Download Young Prisms – Floating In Blue mp3 (from In Between) Continue reading MM Shorts 84: Young Prisms
Another quick round-up of our favourite new tracks gathered via all sources digital, via our in-box, our favourite blogs, the internet at large, and best of all those CDs that arrive out of the blue. This week we can offer you the Byrdsian jangle of White Fence’s It Will Never Be, more high octane, clattering punk riffage from Terry Malts, Grouper’s unique ethereal ambience comes … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight of the Best
A little less than a year ago we posted a track from the superbly named Brother Gruesome so it was a pleasant surprise to receive an e-mail from the band with details of a new track, 5AM, which they have made available for free download from their Bandcamp page. Apparently a full length album is in the pipeline, which they have been recording in New … Continue reading New Track From Brother Gruesome
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