Protomartyr have shared Blues Festival, their contribution to an upcoming split 7″ with R. Ring, due out from Hardly Art records on June 16th (pre-order here). The track was recorded late last year and features back-up vocals by Kelley Deal. Give it a blast below. . Continue reading Protomartyr – Blues Festival
Despite being around since 2003, Minneapolis residents, and self proclaimed bald-headed freaks, The Blind Shake are new to us. Latest release, a mini LP titled Fly Right saw the light of day this week and is a prime slab of sweaty garage rock, with spaghetti-western twang and surf punk twinges thrown in for good measure. Thankfully avoiding the trap of sacrificing the melodies for raw … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… The Blind Shake
Grayson Capps’ debut solo album If You Knew My Mind turns ten this year. In light of the milestone, Royal Potato Family is honoring the now classic recording with a special 10th anniversary reissue edition to be released for Record Store Day. Kicking off with the lazy rhythms of Get Back Up, it boasts one of our favourite album openings ever, “Yesterday was a very fine … Continue reading Grayson Capps – Reissue of If You Knew My Mind
T. Hardy Morris has announced the upcoming release of his new album Hardy & The Hardknocks: Drownin On A Mountain Top, which is out on the 23rd June via Dangerbird Records. The Athens, GA based songwriter, who also also lends his talent to other MM faves Diamond Rugs and Dead Confederate, has spent the past year writing and recording the new album, the follow up to … Continue reading New From T. Hardy Morris
While the name Jonathan Boulet might not sound very “punk rock“, don’t judge a book by its cover. His latest album, Gubba (out in the UK today via Popfrenzy Records) is music hewn from the rich seams that gave us The Melvins, Les Savy Fav, Jesus Lizard and co. Direct and uncompromising Gubba bludgeons like a doom record sped up to garage-punk tempos, and is for anyone who likes their … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Jonathan Boulet
The joys of Emmet Drueding’s new EP of idiosyncratic and unique Americana, Strange Bruise has been a recent discovery for us here at MM. We’ve already shared the excellent Twilight from it and now we have the equally good Hands In Your Pockets for your listening pleasure. Stream it below or grab it for a pay-what-you-want deal on Bandcamp here. Continue reading Emmett Drueding – Hands In Your Pockets
Los Angeles’ pop punks Upset have shared a stream of their new EP, ’76, out now on Lauren Records. It is the follow up to their critically acclaimed debut LP, She’s Gone. While the EP crackles and fizzes with exuberance and energy, our favourite track is the EP closer, the low-key and poignant Wonder. Check it out together with the altogether more high spirited Glass Ceiling. … Continue reading MM Shorts 694: Upset
Regular as clockwork, here is our end-of-week catch-up of some of the best tunes released over the past seven days. Enjoy. 1. Sharon Van Etten – I Don’t Want To Let You Down 2. The Telescopes – I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges cover) 3. White Reaper – Make Me Wanna Die 4. Stealing Sheep – Greed 5. Holydrug Couple – Baby I’m Going Away … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
A perfect companion to our earlier post about Strange Lot, Perth, Australia’s The Lammas Tide’s unique brand of psych-folk-rock draws influence from bands such as Jethro Tull, Traffic, and Jefferson Airplane, combining bluesy inflections and folk sensibilities with classic psychedelia. Bethnal Green will be released on the 1st May on Pavement Records and sounds like a long lost classic from the sixties with its combination of dancing fiddle, … Continue reading The Lammas Tide – Bethnal Green
Strange Lot have a sound that is pitched somewhere between the 60s rock of the Yardbirds and the modern psych of Tame Impala and highly addictive it is too. Their excellent surf-tinged new single Into The Night zips along in a groovy haze of guitars and heavy percussion and can be downloaded below. Debut album Another Mind will be out in May. . Continue reading MM Shorts 693: Strange Lot
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