The latest free Sampler from American Songwriter is a gem, featuring 12 tracks from, amongst others, Turbo Fruits, the wonderful Felice Brothers, Amy Cook, Dylan LeBlanc, Blake Mills and Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons. Check out a couple of our choices from it below: the scruffy, skuzzy garage rock and fiery hooks of Fly Golden Eagle and Natural Child’s hybrid stew of surf rock … Continue reading Free September Mix From American Songwriter
Our best of August mix is ready and even though it is typically a slightly quieter month for new releases, we can still offer you more than 20 cracking new tunes together with a few ‘hot off the press’ new ones. The result? A brilliant mix to keep you going as we enter autumn (aka the fall for our American friends). Either way, just enjoy. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: August 2012
The Riverboat Gamblers is one of our favourite ever band names, and they will hit the road this October with Cobra Skulls in support of their new album The Wolf You Feed, out now on Volcom Entertainment. The Wolf You Feed perfectly captures the often-forgotten era of the Dictators and Iggy Pop’s weirder solo stuff while still retaining a remarkable amount of variance in in … Continue reading Riverboat Gamblers Album & Tour
Wet Nuns are a hedonistic hardcore junkyard punk duo who deal in the kind of ferocious riffing and vocals that sound as if they’ve been forcibly extracted from the bowels of hell. As you might expect, they sing songs about “women, death and beer“, and mighty good songs they are too with recent single Throttle proving especially good for scaring OAPs and the like. Their … Continue reading New Single From Wet Nuns
The Delta Routine are set to release their third full-length album Cigarettes & Caffeine Nightmares this autumn. On it the Milwaukee quintet taps directly into the jugular of early rock-n-roll; distilling the raw, impassioned power and updating it for a younger generation. The eleven tracks traverse through a number of genres, such as garage, power-pop, punk, classic rock and even a bit of earthy Americana … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Delta Routine
John The Conqueror’s self-titled debut album is an amalgamation of the many sounds and styles (old and new) mined from both the North and South. They mix a bedrock of raw deep blues with funk, soul, punk and scuzzed-up rock-n-roll into one potent musical Molotov cocktail. The album showcases ten exuberant, expressive, unrestrained tracks performed with a youthful, reckless abandon as channeled through some truly … Continue reading Introducing >>> John The Conqueror
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