Category: Punk

Alternative, Ambient, Blues, Country, Folk, Garage, Indie, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2012

Here are the best of our January posts together with a few tasty new tracks. All in all nearly forty great tunes compiled and neatly presented in one lovely mix. As always, don’t forget to check out all our previous monthly mixes listed in the sidebar on the left. Download Night Genes – Soaring Through The Chromosomes mp3 (from Like The Blood) Infectiously catchy, military folk stomp. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2012

Unknown's avatarmadmackerel1 Comment
Alternative, Garage, Music, Punk, Rock

The Ex-Girlfriends Club Prep Debut Album

The Ex-Girlfriends Club specialise in the sleazy blues-punk riffs so beloved of the Stooges, the glam rock attitude that so defined late-era T-Rex, and the garage rock rawness that heralded trailblazers The Seeds. The result is a incendiary mix of distortion, proto-punk and voodoo blues that manifests itself perfectly in the primal stomp of their cover of the Sonics classic The Witch, being the first single and a … Continue reading The Ex-Girlfriends Club Prep Debut Album

Unknown's avatarmadmackerel1 Comment
Alternative, Ambient, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Thursday Means Eight of the Best

Another quick round-up of our favourite new tracks gathered via all sources digital, via our in-box, our favourite blogs, the internet at large, and best of all those CDs that arrive out of the blue. This week we can offer you the Byrdsian jangle of White Fence’s It Will Never Be, more high octane, clattering punk riffage from Terry Malts, Grouper’s unique ethereal ambience comes … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight of the Best

Unknown's avatarmadmackerelLeave a comment
Alternative, Electronic, Indie, Music, Pop, Punk, Rock

Solo Album From Bunny Ultramod

Bunny Ultramod is perhaps unsurprisingly the lead singer of technology obsessed and resolutely lo-fi, perv-punks The Ultramods, but now has a solo album, This Is Hollywood, out on general release. It is an autobiographical 16-song release detailing three years in Hollywood leading up to the L.A. Riots. The album details life on the margins of early-1990s Los Angeles, including stories of sex workers, failed writers, male prostitutes, and homeless teens, … Continue reading Solo Album From Bunny Ultramod

Unknown's avatarmadmackerelLeave a comment
Alternative, Garage, Indie, Music, Punk, Rock

Introducing…The Static Jacks

New Jersey indie-punks The Static Jacks will release their debut album If You’re Young in the UK through Fearless Records on March 5th. This release will be preceded by a full UK tour beginning February 15th, including dates with The Wombats. First listen indicates a hard-edged and riotous album, relentlessly energetic with infectious proving to be perhaps the best consistent adjective for the record as a whole. It has big … Continue reading Introducing…The Static Jacks

Unknown's avatarmadmackerelLeave a comment
Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (20th January)

MM and I went to see a film this week with a friend of ours, Gooner Ian. We were the only three in the cinema until the last minute when a couple gate-crashed the party. (Didn’t they realise?! We didn’t!) Anyway, no-one could deny the commanding central performance or even a highly credible supporting cast, but it just wasn’t what it promised to be. It … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (20th January)

Unknown's avatarmadmackerel2 Comments
Alternative, Garage, Indie, Music, Punk, Rock

MM Shorts 78: Fast Years

We’re thoroughly enjoying this from Brooklyn four-piece Fast Years who formed as recently as the Spring of 2011. The band plays a mix of 80s Punk, surf pop, and classic garage, with influences ranging from The Sonics to The Exploding Hearts. They’ve had an online presence for all of 15 days now, including a free giveaway of lead track Young Heart, but their impact has … Continue reading MM Shorts 78: Fast Years

Unknown's avatarmadmackerelLeave a comment
Alternative, Ambient, Country, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Metal, Music, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Streaming Round-Up

Compared with mp3s, it takes us much longer to get around to listening to all the tracks we get sent that are for streaming only – annoyingly paid work has to take priority during the day and you can’t stick these on an iPod – however, there have been a selection of corking tunes released recently that are well worth some of your ear time … Continue reading Streaming Round-Up

Unknown's avatarmadmackerelLeave a comment
Alternative, Gothic, Indie, Music, Punk, Rock

Introducing…Kam Kama

Last February we enthused about the nightmarish dreamscapes and uneasy folk of Fosdyk Well and their mini album Slumber And Stark Lots. Now we’re equally enthused to introduce a separate project featuring Scott from Fosdyk Well. Called Kam Kama, they release their debut 6-track EP  titled The Tiled House next month. This time the tempo has been turned up a few notches and propulsive percussion and dark, sinewy guitar … Continue reading Introducing…Kam Kama

Unknown's avatarmadmackerelLeave a comment