A little over a year ago Mrs Mackerel posted on TFI Friday, a track from White Wires lovingly titled Your Mother Says You’re Ugly, which came from their album WWII. It was a gloriously simple punk-rock song, which we mean in the best possible way. Now they’re back with a new album, titled, of course, WWIII, and a new track to give away. All Night Long … Continue reading New Album From White Wires
Although we now have a regular Video of the Day post on Mad Mackerel, we still can’t keep up with all that we’re being sent and here are a few more of the videos we would like to have featured well before now. Face-melting UK four piece Trails are making quite a name and quite a noise for themselves. Latest video is for new track Is … Continue reading Time For Another Video Round Up…
Wake Up Lucid is a LA based three piece band of cousins that combines sex-drenched vocals, high octane guitar, and a glorious lo-fi sludge that is garage rock at its purest and most dangerous. More grime than the Black Keys and far more savage than The White Stripes, their 2011 Sugar EP was described by Rolling Stone as “raunchy rock at it’s best”. Their debut … Continue reading Introducing >>> Wake Up Lucid
Here are another six tunes to try and cheer you up a little bit on another dank and dreary Friday in England… First up is Hardly Art’s Unnatural Helpers and their raging first single, Hate Your Teachers, from upcoming album Land Grab. River City Tanlines keep the energy levels fizzing with their own garage-punk howl and shred of Stop My Heart taken from the forthcoming release … Continue reading Friday Means Six of the Best
The Thick Shakes do the whole full pelt, jackhammer garage rock thing as well as anyone out there. Melding a 60s psychedelia vibe with a 70s punk attitude and a knowledge and reverence for all things good in the genre, the results are uniformly thrilling and authentic. Latest release, French Dyppe, A Cassyngle, is now available via a ‘pay what you want deal’ on Bandcamp and … Continue reading MM Shorts 185: Thick Shakes New Single
Image (c) Big Pic A cracking month for new releases. Here is the some of the best of our posts from June, together with a couple of newbies for the perfect June mixtape. Check out some of the other ‘Best ofs’ in the sidebar too. The Hunting Accident – Aubergine Angular, compulsive, propulsive thump. a Download Damon Moon & The Whispering Drifters – The Fool mp3 (from Lungs, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best of the Month: June 2012
What with being out at No Direction Home and away with the day job, a whole host of songs have come and gone without us posting them, so we’re remedying that oversight now with this round up of the best from our in-box and around the web. We have the anthemic Mrs Magician who released their debut album Strange Heaven a couple of months ago. … Continue reading Round Up Time Again
No Direction Home Festival || Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire || 8-10 June 2012 The omens were not good for the inaugural No Direction Home music festival, setting out in heavy rain that only got heavier as the traffic got slower the further north I went. However, despite the slate grey skies and constant brake lights of the M1, a journey of over 5 hours was rewarded … Continue reading No Direction Home Festival: A Review
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