Geronimo!, are a trio from Chicago who specialize in a mix of psych, post-punk, krautrock, noise, and indie rock to almighty good effect. The band will release their new album Cheap Trick (named after their shared home origins of Rockford, IL) on May 13th via Exploding In Sound Records. It’s a dynamic record that manages to shift from sound to sound in a moments notice, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Geronimo!
An absolute plethora of cracking new music videos for you today from the brilliant Sharon Van Etten, the welcome return of the rumbling Archie Bronson Outfit, the desert-burnt junkyard indie of The Ukiah Drag, the super trippy Sleepy Sun, and a satirical sex-education video from Bleech. . . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Sharon Van Etten || Archie Bronson Outfit || The Ukiah Drag || Bleech || Sleepy Sun
We always love discovering a lost classic from the punk era and Boston’s La Peste’s Better Off Dead certainly qualifies for that status. Apparently La Peste put out only one official record consisting of just two songs. First released in 1978, right between the golden age of East Coast punk and hardcore’s takeover in the early 1980s, La Peste’s Better Off Dead seven-inch was informed … Continue reading La Peste’s Lost Punk Classic
As well as releasing Sunbathing Animal as a single for Record Store Day, Parquet Courts have also announced their forthcoming album will carry the same title. Listen to the single/title track below – it is a stormer. The album is out in June. . . Continue reading Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
We love Southern Comfort the film, we love Southern Comfort the drink, and now we love Southern Comfort the Orwells song. It ha been around for a while, but this is the first studio stream of the swaggering, infectious lead off track from the much anticipated debut Disgraceland, out on the 3rd June. Listen here. . Continue reading The Orwells – Southern Comfort
It is with a certain amount of glee that we post about Vomitface’s forthcoming 7″ single given that today is Mother’s Day here in the UK. Be that as it may, the self-titled 7″ is grungey, punkish, and loud with elements of surf-rock and good old fashioned attitude. Check out Bill Me Later, which is a cracking tune to blast a hangover into next week … Continue reading MM Shorts 541: Vomitface
Both the Afghan Whigs and Slint have pretty much cemented their places in the history of US alternative rock and post-punk, and certainly need no great introduction from us. The former have a new single, Lottery, that comes from Do The Beast, their first new album in sixteen years! The latter have offered up a rough mix of an unreleased track, Pam, that comes from … Continue reading New (ish) From Afghan Whigs & Slint
Wolf Solent’s video for Get On comes from their recently released Lifeboat EP, a triumph of laid back hypnotic grooves, spaced-out psych, crunchy distortion and fuzzed-up drones. This is one of the jauntier tracks… Buy the EP here. . . . . Continue reading Video: Wolf Solent – Get On
Seattle duo Iska Dhaaf have spent the past three years writing their debut album Even The Sun Will Burn. In many, many ways it is an album of contrasts – joyful and melancholic, subtle and brutal, uncompromising and welcoming it mixes punk, psychedelia, indie rock and even dream pop into a triumphant whole that manages to be much more than the mere sum of its parts. … Continue reading Introducing >>> Iska Dhaaf
Once again it is time to hurl in the lifesaving post of a Round Up, thrown boldly into the rising tide of cracking new tunes that are lapping against the very top of our inbox. Ten bands, thirteen tracks…dip in! . First up is the raw, take-no-prisoners rock’n’roll of Scary People’s tracks Crush The Bug and Chicago – pure, unadulterated foot-stomping noise. . Slow Club release their much … Continue reading Round Up Time
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