Here we are again – a massive free mix containing the cream of last month’s posts, a couple of new tunes and, all in all, an eclectic set of top quality tunes to kick off the onset of autumn for you. From folk to garage, from country to psychedelia and from originals to covers, there is a multifaceted, multifarious, heterogeneous, assorted miscellaney of delights for … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: September 2012
Paper Roses comes from Michigan popsters Legendary Wings’ debut LP Making Paper Roses, which drops on 9th October via Dirtnap Records. The band joined the Dirtnap ranks this year as one of only a few bands the label has ever signed from a random CD-R demo (it was just that good). Musically, the apple that is Legendary Wings doesn’t fall too far from the tree that … Continue reading Introducing >>> Legendary Wings
This latest release from the Volcom Ent Vinyl Club features Vancouver’s Nü Sensae and Nashville’s Useless Eaters. City of Night might be the longest Useless Eaters song to date and it’s slower tempo shows off the class at the heart of Seth Sutton’s songwriting. Nü Sensae dish out the type of grungy punk particularly favored in the Pacific Northwest with their track, Sleeping Blouse. The … Continue reading Nü Sensae and Useless Eaters Split 7″
New releases are coming thick and fast, and hot on the heels of last week’s Round Up, comes part II – ten more tracks of genre-spanning goodies for you to download and delight in. We kick off with All You Can Eat, a little taste from south Philly art rockers 722, whose new EP, Haunting Me, is set to be released on 31st October. Screaming guitars, classic … Continue reading More New Releases Rounded Up
Batwings Catwings have posted this new teaser track up on their Soundcloud page. They describe it as “A new track to share, Blue Dream. There are a handful more on the way in the coming months. This is just a little unmastered teaser. Hope you like.” We do. We do a lot. It sounds like it has come snarling and spitting out of CBGBs in … Continue reading New From Batwings Catwings
Time to catch up with all that’s new, good, interesting, oddball, and plain strange. You can sift for the nuggets of gold yourself, or take our advice and try them all…after all it is the weekend. We have a new track from longstanding favourite Amen Dunes, Sixteen comes from the forthcoming arts and literary project The Unified Field, and we also have a second taste of Why?’s … Continue reading Round Up Time
Displaying manic urgency borrowed from Detroit punk, rhythmic precision with Memphis roots, and sprawling art-rock aspirations that span prog, ambient and even math rock, RTB2’s love of, and immersion in, all of those traditions is surpassed only by their apparent determination to take a sledgehammer to every last one of them. New album, the simply named 2, will be released on 30th October and taster track, … Continue reading RTB2 Prep Release Of New Album 2
Pure guitar/drum adrenalin rush, plenty of fuzz, tremolo, riffs, chunky chords, slide and Black Sabbath power chords. Formerly known as Boom Chick, now Crushed Out, a duo that rides the crest of the garage-surf and pure rock’n’roll wave. Their debut full-length, Want to Give, is out on 6th November, on their own Cool Clear Water imprint. Try Weigh You Down on for size and check … Continue reading Introducing >>> Crushed Out
Here are a whole bunch of appetising new releases all ready for you to try a pick and mix approach to soundtracking your weekend. Kicking us off, hypnotic indie experimentalists, The Soft Moon have another track from new album Zeros available for download. This is Insides. a The Inner Mansions, the new album from Teen Daze has been picking up lots of positive reviews and will be … Continue reading New Release Round Up
We’re still catching up on a huge backlog of e-mails and submissions since our excursion in search of the sun. Here then is a quick round-up of some notable and noteworthy releases. We have skate-punks Fidlar and their latest homage to the joys of alcohol with the two and a half minutes of Cheap Beer and we have Brooklyn’s latest buzz band (justified for once), … Continue reading Saturday Means Six of the Best
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