Nottingham’s Do Nothing have shared the video for rousing track Contraband, taken from their excellent five track debut EP Zero Dollar Bill – out now on their own imprint Exact Truth. Their mix of skewed art-pop, full on acerbic rage and mordant black humour are all well to the fore in the video! The vinyl is long gone, but you can still buy a digital copy of … Continue reading New Video: Do Nothing – Contraband
Chemtrails will release new album The Peculiar Smell Of The Inevitable on the 15th May via Pnkslm. It promises to be the band’s heaviest and wildest record yet, with their trademark big melodies and harmonies performed over a frenzied wall of raw guitar noise and glistening synths. Check out the excellent Suck My Mind, a frenzied gem of infectious garage-punk and acid-corroded new-wave. Order the … Continue reading Chemtrails – Suck My Mind
We’ve long been fans of Birmingham based garage rock trio Table Scraps and they are featured with a new song I Wanna Stay Home With U on Burger Records new compilation QUARANTUNES: Songs From Self-Isolation #2. It is the second in a seven volume series featuring over 140 different artists with all songs written and recorded by the artists over the past three weeks. All funds from sales … Continue reading Table Scraps on latest Burger Records Quarantunes Compilation
Antarctica is the new album from Flat Worms and is released tomorrow. If these two brilliant tracks are anything to go by the band are making good on their promise to have hardened their post-punk/psych sound even further. Check out the coiled spring tension and raw rumble of The Aughts and the hypnotic pummel and killer riff of Market Forces. Great stuff. Buy the album … Continue reading Flat Worms – Antarctica
The madcap, psychedelic punk thrash of the Lovely Eggs is back on the turntable with a new, typically uncompromising long-player, I Am Moron. It mostly crams twelve insanely hectic, and utterly infectious tracks into just under 40 minutes of warped humour, biting satire and lo-fi anarchy – there is a brief pause for some dream-pop, a smattering of surfy guitars – but overall it is … Continue reading Lovely Eggs – I Am Moron
Appropriately enough I AM HER’s excellent new single Big Monster was triggered by the tale of an anxiety attack. Channelling their inner PJ Harvey, the track is a haunting and hypnotically thrilling ride that builds to an anthemic climax. Have a listen. Continue reading I AM HER – Big Monster
Raw Texas duo The Ghost Wolves consists of husband and wife, drummer/vocalist Jonny and vocalist/guitarist Carley Wolf. Their sound is a fusion of punk, rock ‘n’ roll, garage punk, and blues with an equally ripe appetite for electronic imagination. Like the bastard child of The Cramps and The Ramones, latest (unhinged) release is Let’s Go To Mars backed with Last Man. Stream both here and … Continue reading New Single from Ghost Wolves
Bristol’s LICE are back with a brand new single Conveyor, via their own label Settled Law. LICE first gained national attention with debut single The Human Parasite, which we loved, and which established a literate, eccentric brand of satirical art-punk. But what has followed has been a complete about-turn. Disillusioned with the sonic conservatism, twee platitudes and toothless commentary of the ‘satirical guitar music boom’ they … Continue reading LICE Share Conveyor & Announce Tour Dates
The jaunty, scrappy pop-punk duo Diet Cig are back with their first new music since 2017’s fuzzily delightful Swear I’m Good At This. Night Terrors centres around singer and guitarist Alex Luciano’s very real and frequent experiences with said terrors and other bizarre sleep activity. She says, “If we’re close enough to have ever shared a room, you know what I’m talking about. This song goes out … Continue reading Diet Cig Return & Announce UK Dates
Chris T Popper has been with MM from the very first post. Every year he produces his own list of favourite tunes and here are his selections for 2019. This year he was helped by Stan the greyhound. Next year I’m hoping we get Stan’s choices… 10. She Keeps Bees – Kinship Never got bored of that opening drum groove. Backed up by Jessica … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best of 2019: Chris T Popper’s Top Ten Tunes
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