The Eagulls announced themselves to MM with Council Flat Blues, showcasing their own brand of melodic hardcore and full on punk rock and it found much favour with us. Following a split single with Mazes they are back with a five track EP released on 16th July via Sexbeat Records. Coffin is the lead track and while it doesn’t beat your brains into a bloody mush with … Continue reading New Eagulls EP
We’ve long been admirers of Georgia’s no nonsense, full on rockers The Whigs who have announced a new album Enjoy The Company, which will see a release on September 18th. With more than a nod to the Ramones on the one hand and the Walkmen on the other, the band play tight, melodic, driving rock songs that is summed up perfectly with this taster track … Continue reading MM Shorts 171: New Album From The Whigs
As you read this I will probably still be speeding northwards through the torrential rain on the M1 heading for Sherwood Forest and the inaugural No Direction Home music festival. Having spent the last two years happily enjoying the fantastic End of the Road festival, my plans were scuppered for a hat-trick by a sneaky move in dates making it clash with our first overseas … Continue reading No Direction Home Festival: Free Mix
Here are three excellent and completely free label samplers that are well worth getting your grubby mitts on. The first comes from the wonderful Saddle Creek label and their thirteen track Summer Sampler 2012 includes offerings from The Mynabirds, Cursive, Tim Kasher, Bright Eyes and Maria Taylor. The second is from Jeffery Drag Records and is a collection of ten tracks from some top-notch garage rock’n’rollers, … Continue reading Free Label Samplers From Saddle Creek, Jeffery Drag & Bridgetown
Another crackerjack month of new tunes on MM, all lovingly compiled and packaged up for you in one sweet playlist ready to download. Here are 33 of our favourite tracks from our May postings and 6 new songs too. No need to thank us. Download Virals – Gloria mp3 (from Coming Up With The Sun EP) Shines bright with an insanely hooky vocal and charged guitar riffs, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: May 2012
Saint Motel’s debut album is due out in July and will be called Voyeur. The first taste from it is the sparkling, effervescent indie-pop of 1997 – a vaguely loving ode to the friendships forged in the Heaven’s Gate cult! Have a listen, or grab it via the limited time download below. Pre-order the album via iTunes here. a Continue reading MM Shorts 165: New Song From Saint Motel
The Henry Clay People have a new album set for a June 26th release on TBD Records, Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives is a thrilling and sweaty thirty minutes of teenage restlessness expertly melded with adult malaise. The new album sees not only the return of the band’s original line up, but songwriters and brothers Joey and Andy Siara rediscovering and redefining their … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Henry Clay People
Here are a few streams of some of the latest singles and tracks to be creating a buzz round these parts. Worth the hype or not…you decide! This is Anthem from King Tuff’s self titled album – full-on glam rock revival anyone? Order the record and/or grab yourself a free download of Bad Thing from SubPop here. a This is Husbands by Savages, part of … Continue reading Wednesday Means Seven Of The Best: Do Believe The Hype?
We’ve posted a couple of times recently about The Shrouded Strangers following our discovery of Featherbed, one of our favourite tracks of the year so far. They formed in 1999 in Harrisonburg, Virginia and promptly dropped their debut LP, Yes, We Are the Shrouded Strangers, a convoluted concept album about nature vs. technology. Then they got sidetracked. Resurrecting the band in 2008, they released a EP … Continue reading Shrouded Strangers Release Lost Forever
Here is a collection of tracks that have found their way into our in-box or on to our iTunes one way or another recently, and which deserve far more time and effort spent on them than we are currently able to give. Plenty to soundtrack your Friday with. Brooklyn’s indie pop three-piece Violens have just released their second LP, True, on Slumberland Records. The album’s … Continue reading Mega Round Up Time
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