Love this. Real rock’n’roll…Violent Shiver is the A side of a new 7″ from Benjamin Booker whilst the B side is the intriguingly titled Spoon Out My Eyeballs. Watch the video here. . . Continue reading Video: Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
To date rock’n’rolling NY three-piece STRNGRS have released two EPs of originals, a couple covers, and a video of a stripped down live performance from CMJ. They describe themselves as “kinda garage-pop with a blues soul element…” A mess around on their Soundcloud page reveals they’ve been selling themselves a bit short…there are clearly influences ranging from the Stooges and MC5 through to the Black Keys … Continue reading Introducing >>> STRNGRS
We are kicking off Easter with a massive Round-Up of lots of new music and bands that have been sat in our in-box patiently waiting to be heard. Some of these have been released already, some are about to be, but either way we have fifteen artists that are all well worth checking out. . Let us begin with Josh Matthews whose work has been compared … Continue reading It’s An Easter Round Up
Devitalize is the first single to come from Chain & The Gang’s new long player Minimum Rock N Roll, which sees a release via Fortuna POP! on the 14th April. It is an appropriate album title, as the band gleefully appropriate rock n roll, blues, gospel, and those classic vocal quartets from the late 50s /early 60s and turn it into something minimal and ferocious. The single is a scuzzy … Continue reading Chain & The Gang – Devitalize
Spoiling you with five excellent videos this morning. I don’t know where you are, but we’ve got yet another day of dank, dreary, drizzly rain and I need something to brighten up my Friday. So, contrast and compare scrappy indie jangle from Such Hounds, gentle intricate harmonies from The Sea The Sea, tough, catchy garage from The Coathangers, fevered, intense pop from Rare Monks, and … Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Coathangers || Reverend Horton Heat || The Sea The Sea || Such Hounds || Rare Monk
We’re catching up with a backlog of excellent videos to accompany excellent songs. Today watch Radical Face, Drowners, Mona & Maria’s pretty and epic pastoral ode to 60s/70s psych, Reverend Horton Heat’s octane-fueled pyschobilly with a little help from burlesque star Michelle L’Amour, and finally Twin Rivers story of a praying mantis living in the perils of a modern world. The praying mantis in the film is called … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Radical Face || Drowners || Mona & Maria || Reverend Horton Heat || Twin Rivers
The Rebel Set have a vintage crash and snarl blended into their music that is reminiscent of guitar heroes from the 1950s like Link Wray and Gene Vincent at the peak of their thunder inducing years and pressure packed with the energy of 1960s garage bands like The Sonics and The Monks. Influenced by his father’s stacks of rock n’ roll vinyl and the lo-fi garage … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Rebel Set
Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2014 with three bands that are perfect for blasting the morning after the night before’s hangover to smithereens. First up are Eighteen Nightmares At The Lux, a debauched amalgam of surf rock, garage punk and psychobilly who have a four track EP, PIG out in February. Check out the deranged rhythms and sinister riffs of taster track 6ft 6. Second we … Continue reading New Year Blast Off
An Introducing post of a different kind this evening – the most venerable, and highly esteemed, MM contributor Dr. Roddy is celebrating the birth of his first child today. So in honour of the new arrival, we say congratulations to Dr Roddy and Rowena, and welcome to Vincent – may rock’n’roll live forever in his heart. Download Don McLean – Vincent mp3 (from American Pie) … Continue reading Introducing >>> Vincent Webb (Congratulations Dr Roddy & Rowena)
Rosy Street have given up another excellent track – it’s called Little Rambler, and it’s a Bo-Diddley groove swamped in dirty distortion and flaunting maracas. A tale of carnal lust laden with pedal steel that howls like a ghost on a highway. Continue reading MM Shorts 486: Rosy Street
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