Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

The Catenary Wires

The Catenary Wires is the new project from Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey. Their debut mini-album Red Red Skies is due for release on Elefant Records on 1st June. Together,the duo have an impressive 30 year indie-pop pedigree, including Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, Marine Research and Tender Trap. The Catenary Wires started when they moved out of London to the countryside and started writing quiet and melancholy songs … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Catenary Wires

madmackerelMarch 23, 2015March 23, 2015Leave a comment

Alternative, Garage, Music, Rock

Introducing >>> Sean Gospel

As a founding member of The Gospels as well as independent label Ghoulhouse Records, Sean Gospel is on a rock and roll warpath. His debut full length, Good Times With Bad Acid is a thrilling garage rock slug-fest. One moment we are in the arms of pure 70s rock grime with songs like Witch and Black Car, and the next, stilled by his haunting falsetto on … Continue reading Introducing >>> Sean Gospel

madmackerelMarch 22, 2015March 22, 20151 Comment

Alternative, Garage, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

MM Shorts 681: Los Trasgos Muertos

Los Trasgos Muertos are a psych influenced garage rock band from Manchester, who have just put out their first eponymous EP. Some of the band also play in Hawker Reunion who have featured previously on MM, albeit with a very different sound! This though is crunchy and raw, proper riff-driven rock ‘n’ roll that is guaranteed to put hairs on your chest – whatever your gender… … Continue reading MM Shorts 681: Los Trasgos Muertos

madmackerelMarch 22, 2015March 22, 20151 Comment

Alternative, Americana, Electronic, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

It’s Saturday, time for our mop up of some of the tunes released this week that are well worth giving a whirl too. 1. Girlpool – Ideal World 2. Houndstooth – Borderlands 3. Death Cab For Cutie – Little Wanderer 4. Aquarian Blood – Savage Mind 5. Sheer Mag – Button Up 6. Wolf Alice – I Saw You (In A Corridor) 7. Teleman – … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

madmackerelMarch 21, 2015March 20, 2015Leave a comment

Alternative, Americana, Blues, Country, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Friday Afternoon Round Up

It’s Friday and a trawl through the overloaded MM in-box has been well overdue. So here are a few tunes, new and not quite so new, that are well worth giving some ear-time to0… And your starter for ten: Inspired by 70s Punk and 90s Brit Pop, NYC band Public Access T.V. have announced the release of their debut EP in the US on Terrible Records. … Continue reading Friday Afternoon Round Up

madmackerelMarch 20, 2015March 20, 2015Leave a comment

Alternative, Folk, Gothic, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

MM Shorts 680: The Venus Lyx

The Venus Lyx is a trinity of sorts. Three brothers, all alike under a certain kind of light. The brothers Traylen. Formed a little under a year ago, the trio has since been creating and fashioning their own distinct brand of jagged freak-folk. Now they have their debut single available for your listening pleasure, however uncomfortable that might be… Keep Your Hands Off My Familiar is … Continue reading MM Shorts 680: The Venus Lyx

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Alternative, Music, Punk, Rock

Introducing >>> Fuck Tornadoes

So with a name like that, you can be pretty confident you know what’s in store. And you’d be right. We don’t know much about Fuck Tornadoes after they popped up in our Soundcloud feed, but a quick visit to their Facebook page seems to suggest that they’re a Swedish punk band with LA connections and have just released a single called Hey Y’all backed with … Continue reading Introducing >>> Fuck Tornadoes

madmackerelMarch 19, 2015March 19, 2015Leave a comment

Alternative, Music, Punk, Rock

Drenge – Never Awake

Drenge’s first single from forthcoming album Undertow, the brutally catchy We Can Do What We Want was undoubtedly the best thing we’d heard from them to date. Follow up single is the equally bruising Never Awake and whets the appetite for the new release (out 17th April) even further. Try it on for size… . Continue reading Drenge – Never Awake

madmackerelMarch 19, 2015March 19, 2015Leave a comment

Alternative, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

MM Shorts 679: Ecstatic Vision

Philadelphia, PA heavy psych quartet Ecstatic Vision have recently completed work on their forthcoming full-length debut album. It is an acid-tinged mix of trance inducing, primitive African tribal and heavy psych a la Hawkwind, Goat and Amon Düül II. Listen and groove to Astral Plane here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 679: Ecstatic Vision

madmackerelMarch 18, 2015March 18, 2015Leave a comment

Alternative, Americana, Folk, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends… Trans Van Santos

Moon Mirage is the new album from Trans Van Santos, the latest incarnation of acid gospel visionary Mark Matos and his transcendent tunes. Formerly head of rambling San Francisco psych-folk collective the Family Folk Explosion, psychedelic anti-band Os Beaches, and dusty desert rockers Campo Bravo —Matos has spent decades chasing his muse. Weary eyed and ragged on the old road he had a vision and was … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Trans Van Santos

madmackerelMarch 18, 2015March 18, 2015Leave a comment