Category: Punk

Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Punk, Rock

New Single from Sixty Watt Bayonets

Following last year’s acclaimed debut mini-album Pounding Hearts Fighting Words, all-girl UK indie-punks Sixty Watt Bayonets returned this summer with follow-up single I Wish I Was Your Girlfriend. It is pure foot-stomping disco-punk with hi-energy shimmy and a skewed breakdown near its peak to ensure these two minutes are packed with everything you need from such barbed guitar horseplay. It is the band at their … Continue reading New Single from Sixty Watt Bayonets

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Alternative, Garage, Music, Pop, Punk, Rock

New Releases from Sleep All Day Records

Sleep All Day Records is one of those small indie labels that it is always a pleasure to receive stuff from. It doesn’t come often, nor with oodles of PR bumf, but invariably Craig at the label picks some cracking tunes and lets them talk for themselves. And so it is with these latest releases. We have two tracks for you – infectious punk pop … Continue reading New Releases from Sleep All Day Records

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Bambara Release Dog Ear Days EP

Athens, Georgia trio Bambara are a noisy band, which we mean as a compliment.  They conjure up a nice line in rhythmic aggression with ethereal walls of sound, delay loops, feedback and distortion. Crucially however, at the heart of each track there is a nice little pop song beaten and buried. Tomorrow they release their new EP Dog Ear Days via Emerald Weapon, and we … Continue reading Bambara Release Dog Ear Days EP

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Alternative, Country, Folk, Garage, Indie, Metal, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

MM’s Best of the Month: July

Here we are again. A round up of our favourite postings of the month. Twenty one outstanding songs from July plus three new ones to make the perfect mix tape. From folk to garage to stoner rock and summer pop it is all here for you. Download, burn to CD, play – groove! 1) Sharon Van Etten – Love More mp3 A slow burning, mesmerising … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: July

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Alternative, Garage, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends…Noun & Screaming Females

The Screaming Females are a band that MM likes a lot. So it is to our own detriment that we didn’t even know that before she was in the band, guitarist Melissa Paternoster had recorded for a number of years under the name Noun. A discovery like this is always better late than never though, and Paternoster released her first official full length entitled Holy … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Noun & Screaming Females

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Cloud Nothings New Single

At the beginning of this month we posted the excellent b-side to the new single from The Cloud Nothings. The single Didn’t You is out today on Old Flame and now you can get that too with a simple click of your mouse below. It’s a cleaner sound, but still packed full of hooks and shot through with that punk arrogance that we like so … Continue reading Cloud Nothings New Single

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Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday

Perhaps you thought this fish was too mellow for anything like the Butthole Surfers? Well this Friday, I’m most definitely in the mood for something with its roots in punk. This week has seen verbal slights and physical swipes a-go-go.  All I can say is this: people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, and if you throw any more at my kids, prepare to get … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday

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Alternative, Blues, Music, Punk, Rock

Introducing…The Ferocious Few

With Kathleen, The Ferocious Few have joyously raided the rock’n’roll cupboard and produced a sub two minute classic. With Porcelain Doll, The Ferocious Few have joyously raided the rock’n’roll cupboard and produced a sub two minute classic. With their debut album Juices, The Ferocious Few have joyously…well you probably get the picture. Like many before them, this Californian duo have plundered blues, punk, rockabilly, lo-fi … Continue reading Introducing…The Ferocious Few

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Streets On Fire

Apparently No One’s Fucking To The Radio according to Chicago’s deranged retro-rockers The Streets On Fire. This is the taster from their forthcoming (and first full-length) album This Is Fancy due out in July. While it reminds us of everything from Iggy to Gang of Four by way of The Kills, it has enough identity and confidence to stand on its own two feet, and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Streets On Fire

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Alternative, Country, Folk, Music, Punk

Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday

Indulge me today.  My youngest boy was six on Tuesday.  Blessed with an excellent fledgling taste in music, his current faves includes Jason Ward, Stornoway and Dr Dog.  Perhaps being named after MM’s all time hero, Joe Strummer (or Joe Drummer as our Joe called him for some time), has helped.  So much personality packed into one so small. Anyway, enough of these frivolities, we’ve … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday

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