We’ve long admired and enjoyed the raw, simmering, often rabid, one-man-band blues of Scott H. Biram – like a meaner, nastier, and considerably better Seasick Steve! So it is great to hear he is back with a new album, Nothin’ But Blood, on the ever reliable Bloodshot Records in February next year. His distinct songwriting cocktail is much to the fore, encompassing a penchant for sludge … Continue reading Scott H. Biram To Release Nothin’ But Blood
Last day of the working week, so celebrate with some new videos. We have the twisted, gnarly rock’n’roll of Shannon & The Clams, some sweetly dissonant pop from Tancred, Swedish lo-fi psych from No Coda, country-psych from Immigrant Union, and slacker rock from Charleston’s Elim Bolt. . . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Shannon & The Clams || Tancred || No Coda || Immigrant Union || Elim Bolt
We last featured Washington DC based band U.S. Royalty back in Febraury 2011, and it is good to welcome them back with their new track Into The Thicket. It has a touch of the Lumineers about it – being a big-hearted, tender folk tune delivered with a mixture of fingerpicked harmonies and vocal fervour that is all to rarely seen (or heard) nowadays. It manages to convey … Continue reading U.S. Royalty – Into The Thicket
Plenty to enjoy today as our videos come from boisterous up and coming indie-rockers Catfish & The Bottlemen, the punked-up raw country of Shovels & Rope, and the fuzzed up psychedelia and krautrock from Brilliant Beast. We also have the refined, vintage pop of Sweet Gum Tree featuring MM fave Isobel Campbell, and lastly the dark pop and grandiose hooks of Dinosaur Bones. Fill yer boots. . . … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Catfish & The Bottlemen || Shovels & Rope || Brilliant Beast || Sweet Gum Tree || Dinosaur Bones
Here is Ace in The Hole, the latest track from bouncy indie rock and popsters Saint Motel. Continue reading MM Shorts 478: Saint Motel
In typical Savaging Spires fashion we were sent a Soundcloud link and very little else (i.e. nothing at all) to herald their new long player We Should Be Dead Together. From what little we have been able to glean, the album consists of eleven new tracks and will be released as a limited CD at the end of this month and out in January in … Continue reading New Savaging Spires Album
Kings Of Lowertown just released the sleazy, garage blues boogie of Mississippi Flood and it is simply magnificent. Grab it from their Bandcamp page on a pay-what-you-want deal here – it will be the best thing you do all day. . Continue reading MM Shorts 477: Kings Of Lowertown
We are thoroughly grooving out to Star Stamp, the first taste of Holy Wave’s forthcoming album entitled Relax, and out via the Reverberation Appreciation Society on the the 28th January on vinyl, CD, digital download and a cassette co-release with Burger Records. Taking elements of surf rock, hypnotic drone, fuzzy riffs and blending them all together with a dash of dissociative hallucinogenics and the occasional bad trip, … Continue reading New Album From Holy Wave
New York trio Dead Waves will release their new EP Take Me Away on the 10th December and it will make the perfect Christmas gift for anyone still lamenting the glory days of grunge, of the Pixies, the Melvins, and Mudhoney. Grab yourself the brilliant and brooding Over Me – distorted disillusionment never sounded so good or so cool! Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Dead Waves
This started out as a CD-R that Candy Says gave away for free on their Space Tour – they wanted to introduce people to the the music their friends make. Fifty copies were burned, and they were gone before they knew it. So they asked all the bands if they could put the compilation online, and everyone thought it was a great idea (well almost … Continue reading Candy Says Curate Compilation To Benefit Alzheimer’s Research
