Here are three gems of garage rock/punk/pop joy for you, especially designed to brighten up a drab and dreary January Sunday. We’ve posted about the Mind Spiders and the Thick Shakes before. Both play a wonderfully uncluttered, joyous form of proto garage-rock that is simple, unaffected and damn catchy. We have a track from the forthcoming Mind Spiders self-titled album and the Thick Shakes new … Continue reading Let’s Go Garage…
On their new album Crimes, the marvellously named Occult Detective Club play a mix of straight-up, raw, no nonsense first wave punk and new wave music with a focus on catchy choruses, thoughtful lyrics and a DIY mentality. Think the Ramones, with echoes of The Jam, even Sham 69 thrown in the blender with the passion and forward thinking of Billy Bragg. The Denton, Texas-based … Continue reading Introducing…Occult Detective Club
Now that we’ve had the top tens from all the Mad Mackerel contributors, we will give you a definitive overall top ten in a couple of days. Before that is our penultimate top ten list of the year – the favourite new bands and artists that have come our way in 2010 which was perhaps the hardest list of all to compile. So with honourable … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 9, Favourite New Artists
Happy Christmas folks. Enjoy this, one of the best ‘punk’ Christmas songs ever by Basement 5, circa 1980. Download Basement 5 – Last White Christmas mp3 (from Last White Christmas 7″) Continue reading HAPPY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL AT MAD MACKEREL
Here at MM we share, chat, argue, bury and praise music on a pretty regular basis…like daily. So throughout the year, the Mackerel crew (Mrs Mackerel, Barry-Sean, Christy-Popper, Dr Roddy, Polly Pocket, Starbar, MM and others) keep their own ever-changing top tens ready for publication at the climax of the festive season. So here are MM’s ten favourite tunes from 2010 – no claims on … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 7, Mad Mackerel
Following most excellent Top Ten submissions from Starbar, Polly Pocket, Dr Roddy, Barry-Sean and Mr Popper come MM’s top ten covers of 2010. Now, we’ve said on many occasions that we’re not great lovers of covers. However, some of the cover versions we heard in 2010 may well have done enough to change our minds permanently. So without further ado… 10 Holly Miranda – Nobody … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 6, Cover Songs
History has always focused on Ebenezer Scrooge. History has always focused on Bob Cratchit. Now, for the first time, Tiny Tim tells his side of the story, in this new Christmas-time jam from Brooklyn 10-piece punk collective Unremarkable People. Continue reading Unremarkable People’s Christmas Video
To celebrate our lovely WordPress snowflakes (which are making Mrs M and Polly Pocket quite happy) and will take you through to Christmas and beyond, here is a free Christmas song from The Boom Bang. In case you missed them when we posted about their debut Bummer Camp EP, they’re a bunch of garage rock devotees playing fuzzy, reverb laden rock ‘n’ roll with added … Continue reading Christmas is coming…according to The Boom Bang
Here again is a short round-up of some of the better new releases we’ve come across recently. Once again, they all deserve more in the way of a narrative, but time can be a hard taskmaster on occasion. First up is the rather strangely named EP’s Trailer Park and their strangely compelling folk song tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa – this year’s Nobel Laureate in … Continue reading New Releases Round Up
Like Iowa from our earlier post today, My Disco hail from Melbourne. Like Iowa, My Disco like to shred their sound into a dark, pummelling tribal noise. There is certainly no nod to the glitter balls, falsetto vocals or anything else we would associate with disco…. Their new album (their third) Little Joy will get a worldwide release early in 2011, and the tracks we’ve … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…My Disco
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