Dark Horses debut single Alone will be released on Singles In The Suburbs/ Beggars Banquet in the UK on 29 Nov 2010 on limited 7″ and international download. Pulsating, beguiling electro-psychedelia – and we love it. Listen below and be seduced. a Visit their MySpace here. Continue reading Introducing…Dark Horses
Here is our regular round-up of the very best of October’s postings. Twenty great tracks for a great mix, plus three new ones to enjoy too. You can check out all of our previous best of the month mixes just by clicking the links for April, May, June, July. August and September. No Age – Fever Dreaming mp3 (from Everything In Between) A full on, … Continue reading MM’s Best Of The Month: October
We don’t usually do themed mixes, but Halloween is different. So many great songs lend themselves to a night of ghoulish wrongdoing and sorcery. So to get you in the mood, download a marvellous combination of folk, punk, psych-rock, paisley jangle, experimental, indie, and straight up rock ‘n’ roll. Fifteen great songs, all treats and no tricks. Download The Dream Syndicate – Halloween mp3 (from … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Halloween Mix
We have previously posted about The Soft Moon, and have just picked up a new track from them called Tiny Spiders. It is more krautrock inspired, post-punk electronic goodness with a whispered vocal that, if pushed, we’d say reminds us a little of a depressed David Sylvian backed by a demented Gary Numan. Anyway, we like it….it comes from the debut album out next month … Continue reading New from The Soft Moon
The High Dials hail from Canada and have a sound that immediately calls to mind the jangly psychedelics and country rock of the late 60s. New album (their fourth) is called Anthems For Doomed Youth and is out on November 8th. It is full of soaring vocal harmonies, orchestral flourishes and rousing choruses and while influences are unashamedly worn on sleeves, there is enough originality … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The High Dials
It’s Friday, Mrs M’s musings are still to come, and a Halloween playlist for the weekend too, but for now, here is a quick playlist/round-up of those songs we’ve gathered up recently, but not had/found enough time to post about properly… First up Leopold & His Fiction, we’ve seen this track described as the Doors meet Wolfmother… Download Leopold & His Fiction – Golden Friends … Continue reading Friday Round-Up
Despite Mat Cothran, aka lo-fi one-man band Coma Cinema, offering two albums for free from his website, I had never really sat down and listened to them. It has taken the announcement of a new album, titled Blue Suicide, and a couple of advance tracks to make me prick up my ears and then go back and find out just what I had missed out … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Coma Cinema
The latest free monthly mix from Insound is now available. It is up for a limited time and features 15 tracks themed around CMJ artists including Salem, FLIGHT, Young Prisms, DOM and more. A couple of our favourite tracks are below, and you can get the whole thing for free here. Enjoy. Download Frankie Rose & The Outs – Candy mp3 Download Weekend – End … Continue reading Latest Insound Digital Mixtape
Yesterday Partisan Records released the latest full-length effort from Paleo entitled A View Of The Sky, available in CD, LP, Ltd. Edition Color Vinyl and Digital Download formats. Paleo has been traveling the country for the last 6 years. Booking his own shows, he has been playing roughly 150 dates a year while living out of his car and staying with people kind enough to share … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Paleo
Supposedly named after Vesta, the brightest asteroid in our solar system, the moniker is an obvious nod to Spacemen 3, the classic UK band which The Asteroid #4 repeatedly cite as an influence. In fact, one of the group’s earliest recorded offerings was an even spacier (if that’s possible) version of Losing Touch With My Mind on Rocket Girl’s tribute compilation to the psych giants. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Asteroid #4
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