Creepoid is a great name for a band. However, a name is not enough…if you’re called Creepoid you need tunes to fit with the moniker, and most importantly, tunes that are of a style and content that allow you to live up to the name. Thankfully, they more than deliver on both counts. Following on from their debut 7″ last year (Yellow Life Giver) comes … Continue reading Introducing…Creepoid
We picked up That Rabbit by The Whalers from the always excellent Rollo & Grady blog and it was one of those first play moments where you get to the end and say to yourself “how good was that?”, before hitting repeat. So we figured we ought to share the track here for anyone who has missed out on the band so far plus another … Continue reading Introducing…The Whalers
The ever reliable Fire Records has announced the start of a Giant Sand / Howe Gelb series of rolling reissues, which will see the re-release of roughly 30 albums culminating in two box sets to be released next year. Each album will be lovingly re-issued in red and silver limited edition digipacks. The first three (Valley Of Rain, The Ballad Of A Thin Line Man, Storm) … Continue reading Fire Records Reissue Giant Sand Albums
Here is our regular round up of the best of January’s posts plus a couple of new tracks for your listening pleasure – all beautifully designed to make one perfect mixtape. Download Wooden Wand – The DNR Waltz mp3 More classic down-tempo folk from greatly underrated MM fave. Download Phosphorescent – Are You Ready For The Country? mp3 Riff-heavy, mean-assed cover which brilliantly captures the double-edged viciousness … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January
Danish indie-folk quintet, Alcoholic Faith Mission will be releasing their new 5 song EP entitled And The Running With Insanity in North America on March 29th. Though they hail from Denmark, the band was actually formed in Brooklyn in 2006 by high school friends Thorben and Sune. Last year, their third and most renowned album, Let This Be The Last Night We Care, was released in the US … Continue reading New EP from Alcoholic Faith Mission
A while ago we posted a track from the recent, self-titled Sonny + The Sandwitches EP, which has rapidly grown to be a massive favourite here at MM. However, it was only recently that we discovered Sonny Smith’s 100 Records project in which he created more than 100 fictional bands, then wrote songs for them and enlisted musicians (including Ty Segall and Kelley Stoltz amongst … Continue reading Introducing…Earth Girl Helen Brown (sort of)
Here are a few of the better/more interesting videos that have found our way into the in-box recently. First up are The Whigs, a band we’ve posted about a few times. This is the band keeping it simple in their self-directed video for So Lonely from current album In The Dark. Rodeo Massacre are a Swedish/French band in thrall to the sixties garage scene and … Continue reading MM’s Video Update
We’re not sure how to accurately describe this track from Swedish band The Skull Defekts. It’s minimal and powerful, it’s a bit raga, a bit drone, has some tribal chants, lots of repetition, it’s hypnotic, a bit trancey, some pyschedelia and seriously rhythmic! In a wholly good way it reminds us a bit of everything from the 60s to the 90s – from Cornershop to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Skull Defekts
Lars Finberg and Susanna Welbourne of much lauded indie band The Intelligence have a side project on the go titled Puberty, which make Google searches interesting if nothing else. There have been a few demos doing the rounds on the web since spring of last year, but their first (self-titled) single proper is out on Telephone Explosion imminently. Take a listen to Invitations below with … Continue reading Introducing…Puberty (the band that is…)
Akron/Family’s new release S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT is starting to generate a lot of excitement and buzz…here’s the latest track, Silly Bears, to be released from the album. Compare it to So It Goes which we posted a little while back. Pre-order the album here. Download Akron/Family – Silly Bears mp3 (from S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey … Continue reading More from Akron/Family’s new album
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