It is a bonanza month from Insound and their regular free monthly digital mix. For July they have no less than three offerings teaming up with Hudson RiverRocks, The Beach Party and Sound Bites to bring you samplers featuring artists from all three series. They feature a whole bunch of artists dear to MM’s heart including Deer Tick, Metronomy, The Raveonettes, Psychedelic Horseshit, My Teenage Stride, … Continue reading Insound’s Free Digital Mixtapes x 3
Of all the bands at this year’s End of the Road Festival, Wooden Shjips are one of the ones we are looking forward to seeing the most. Even more so over the past few weeks as we’ve regularly listened to the brilliant Lazy Bones on Marc Riley’s BBC Radio 6 show – the first track to get an airing from forthcoming album West. Lazy Bones … Continue reading Wooden Shjips Ready New Album
We posted recently about A Scribe Amidst The Lions. Here is their new video for new song Hot Chameleon. As they say, it is pretty tripped out. a Get the new EP The Lidless Kind from their Bandcamp page here. Download A Scribe Amidst The Lions – Backdoor Betty mp3 (from the Lidless Kind) Continue reading New Video from A Scribe Amidst The Lions
Here is our regular Best of the month mix – more than twenty tracks of all shapes and sizes to get your ears into, plus a few new ones that we think you’ll love! So we’re off and running with… Download The Virgin Passages – Horizon mp3 (from Horizon) Euphoric, unhurried, hazy and hypnotic. Download St. Vincent – Kerosene (live) mp3 (Big Black cover) Visceral and stunning live cover … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: June 2011
Howling Bells will release their new album on September 12th on Cooking Vinyl. The Loudest Engine will be preceded by a clutch of live shows, including a London date at the Electric Ballroom on September 15th. A raw, psychedelic third studio album, and the sequel to 2009’s Radio Wars, the recording of The Loudest Engine saw the band get sonic inspiration from Nevada’s expansive surroundings … Continue reading New Album From Howling Bells
At the end of last month we posted about the debut album from psych tinged folk band Efren, titled Rise On Up And Melt. The album is released today and the band have made available a second track from the album – grab yourself some melancholy Moonshine below. Get a copy of the album here. Download Efren – Moonshine mp3 (from Rise On Up And Melt) … Continue reading More from Efren – Album Released Today
Bridgetown Records is one of those wonderful labels quietly putting out release after release covering a whole range of styles and genres from psych to ambient to experimental, and pretty much all points in between. They’ve been in touch to remind us there are 15 new releases on Bridgetown, including the label’s first DVD, and a video album by Former Selves. The rest of the … Continue reading Free Summer Mixtape from Bridgetown Records
Formed in 2005, A Scribe Amidst the Lions (or simply, “Scribe”, to many friends and fans) are a San Diego-based band, specializing in a strain of psych-rock that aims at imagination and wide narrative. Lyrics are cryptic, themes expansive, songs structured progressively, instruments swapped at will. In addition to the core band at the center of their songs, Scribe utilizes a second drummer/percussionist, along with … Continue reading Introducing…A Scribe Amidst The Lions
Peg Simone is in the studio working on her new album to be out in the winter of 2012. She has been playing music for over twenty-five years and has been a part of five different bands, but is now focusing on her solo career. American guitarist and writer Lenny Kaye praised Peg Simone’s fifth album saying that she “…sing-speaks ghostly and shadowy narratives from … Continue reading New Album from Peg Simone
Sundress is an American psychedelic-pop band, formed in Denton, Texas in 2010 by principle members Ryan McAdams, bassist Drew McCary, guitarist Kennon Talley, keyboardist Jim Harrington and drummer Brack Cantrell. The band have a sound that brings in influences all across the board. Slowdive, Pink Floyd, Sparklehorse, Spiritualized, Radiohead and more. By unlike most, these boys do it well. Check out Derelict from their forthcoming … Continue reading Introducing…Sundress
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