LA-based trio Hello Echo has announced a West Coast tour in support of their new Coffee Cups EP, a quick mix of alternative, punk, surf, blues and folk (out Tuesday 11th September). Have a listen to the first single from the EP, Country. a Tour Dates 8/18 – Visalia CA – Cellar Door 8/23 – Pismo Beach CA – Cliffs Resort 8/24 – San Diego … Continue reading MM Shorts 210: Hello Echo
A whirlwind week began with the Wilderness Festival (thanks Ronan) and ended with my liver feeling like it needs to be squeezed out and dried on the radiator. We have returned from Devon today in the pouring rain from five days with 38 big and small people in an Agatha Christie style house, where the sun shone and at times the rain poured down. There … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (17th August)
Here are six crackerjack new tunes for you. No messing – everyone a winner! Kicking us off in fine style are the reverb loving, fuzzed up, drone psych specialists Moon Duo with Sleepwalker from the upcoming Circles long player, and the Wavves contribution to the Adult Swim Singles Programme, Hippies Is Punks. We have some stunning, woozy, heroin-pop brilliance in the shape of the Lollipops, which comes from … Continue reading Wednesday Means Six of the Best
You know the score. Some of our favourite downloads from the past month neatly parcelled up into one tasty mix and decorated with a few new tunes too. Nearly forty in all. Jump in! Download Wye Oak – Spiral mp3 (from Adult Swim Singles Series) A change of approach and tempo from experimental folkies Download Unnatural Helpers – Hate Your Teachers mp3 (from Land Grab) Raging. Ferocious. Punk Download … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: July 2012
The number of new releases has cranked back into top gear recently with a whole host of tasty ear ticklers coming our way. So what could be even better than an Olympic opening ceremony than a massive Mad Mackerel Friday mix – twenty four tracks handpicked especially for you. We light the flame with buzzworthy punked-up noiseniks Fidlar and in the same vein another from … Continue reading A Massive Friday Mix
Here is another track of energetic, catchy power punk from Baby Baby. $ comes from their debut album Money. Download Baby Baby – $ mp3 (from Money) Continue reading MM Shorts 194: Baby Baby
We’ve taken our sweet time getting round to listening to the new single Businessman’s Guide To Witchcraft by Somerset’s Waves of Fury, but as soon as we did we knew we’d be sharing it far and wide. It is the first track to see the light of day from their forthcoming self-titled long player and it is an unholy alliance of scowling, snarling vocals, sleazy … Continue reading Introducing Waves of Fury
Good stuff coming out of our ears from every direction at the moment. Here’s a little round-up of eight of the best of them. Download them all below. First up we have punky psych-rockers Cult of Youth with a taste of forthcoming album Love Will Prevail (out September on Sacred Bones), this is Man And Man’s Ruin. Keeping the noise levels in the red are … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight of the Best
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