We’re loving Hate Smile, the advance single from the upcoming Is/Is full length. It is a song that is swathed in moody magnificence as distorted guitars and pounding percussion battle for supremacy in a maelstrom of compelling noise. Shoegaze is too easy a term for this bleakly bitter offering that is as heavy and menacing as it is beautiful. Download Is/Is – Hate Smile mp3 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Is/Is
Sonic carnage is indeed an appropriate way to describe the raw and raucous punk inflected garage rock of The Hussy. They memorably describe it as “bash-em-up-spit-em-out garage-trash for short attention spans“. Their new album is Weed Seizure out on March 20th via Tic Tac Totally and follows the release of their long sold-out debut Cement Tomb Mind Control. Like a flick-knife in a crowded flophouse … Continue reading Sonic Carnage From The Hussy
We seem to be getting overwhelmed by high quality videos at the moment so it would be churlish and not a little selfish of us not to share some of the best with you. Kicking off is the wonderful video for the delicately beautiful Tuck The Darkness In from the Bowerbirds new album The Clearing. a Next we have Cheyenne Marie Mize and a video for her … Continue reading More Videos For Your Perusal And Enjoyment
Our second free offering comes via Clash Magazine’s regular monthly Cross-Section mix. The March mix features ten tracks available for free once you’re registered with the site. As usual it is an eclectic selection ranging from Andrew Bird to Patterns to Nedry and we have included a couple of our choices below from the immature all-girl punk of Maria And The Gay and the sleazy, distorted … Continue reading MM Shorts 115: Free Mix Download 2
We’ve got good stuff coming out of our ears – quite literally at the moment. So here is the latest in our somewhat ad-hoc “of the best” feature comprising a trawl of the in-box and favourite blogs to bring you eight corking tunes to help get your Friday night off to a suitably energetic start. We have Swedish punks Holograms and the clattering b-side to … Continue reading Friday Means Eight Of The Best
Former Dum Dum Girl, Katie Serbian Brouillette is releasing her new project Cheap Curls’ debut 7″ on Art Fag Recordings this spring. You can listen to the very fine track, Jackie Oh below. The debut 3 song 7″ is pressed in an edition of 500 copies – order it here. a Continue reading MM Shorts 112: Cheap Curls
Here are a few of the new singles that have come our way recently that are well worth a listen. The Diamond Center are purveyors of very fine lush, shimmering neo-psychedelia. A new 7″, California / Bells will be out on the 13th March and you can listen to the woozy, pulsating goodness of the title track here. http://official.fm/tracks/350063 Next up, and while a touch … Continue reading New Singles Round Up
The Lonesome Savages are a Madison band featuring members of Dead Luke as well as ex-members of Zola Jesus. They have a debut four track 7″ EP out on the ever excellent Kind Turkey Records titled All Outta Love. Singer Max Elliott howls over a punkabilly masterpiece that teeters on Cramps-esque infatuation but thankfully goes way beyond simple pastiche or plagiarism. No sir, this is just honest 50s … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Lonesome Savages
Coming via Clash Magazine, the monthly free digital samplers from Cargo Records are always an eclectic mix and a delight to download and explore. And so it is with the latest one. Featuring twelve tracks and showcasing the talents of amongst others The Men, The Wedding Present, Robert Pollard, That Fucking Tank and Caretaker. We’ve included two of our favourites below in the shape of the back … Continue reading Free Cargo Collective Digital Sampler
Musically, the year is starting to really kick into gear now and February saw lots of top quality tunes hit the web. Here is our pick of the best of last month’s posts along with four brand, spanking new tracks for you to download, sample and treasure. All in all over thirty great songs in one great mix. Download Hoots & Hellmouth – Why Would You … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: February 2012
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