Category: Rock

Americana, Country, Garage, Indie, Music, Pop, Rock, Soul

Mad Mackerel Recommends…Promised Land Sound

Promised Land Sound emerged from the fertile Nashville garage scene – members have played with PUJOL, Denney and the Jets, and members of JEFF The Brotherhood and Those Darlins, among others – but have quickly evolved to deploy a more varied, country, soul and pop palette than many of their contemporaries. In fact we’re talking some down and dirty swamp boogie, Creedence style chooglin’ and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Promised Land Sound

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Alternative, Garage, Indie, Music, Rock

More From The Obits

Here is a second taste from the Obits forthcoming long player Bed & Bugs. Grab your self the fabulous scratchy, garage-surf-punk of Spun Out, all held together with a vintage Duane Eddy twang before everything starts to fall apart, both musically and lyrically. “Want a change in lighting. Want a change for life. Each link on a bad road broken. Want a change for life.” Heck. … Continue reading More From The Obits

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Alternative, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

Introducing >>> Spring King

Manchester based Spring King make maxed out wall-of-sound pop, dripping in frantic energy and slap-back delay. Having already drawn favourable comparisons with Kurt Vile and Iceage, first single proper Better Man draws from the anthemic full throttle drive of Springsteen, but through the fuzzed out trippy kaleidoscope of Ty Segall. Recorded at home in a broken bathroom, you can almost see the faded wallpaper and sickly … Continue reading Introducing >>> Spring King

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Alternative, Music, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Another From Destruction Unit

Deep Trip the new album from Destruction Unit is out on Sacred Bones soon and we gave you a first taste of their psychedelic mayhem and harsh, sonic punk rock last month with The World On Drugs. Now we have the slower, creepier Bumpy Road, a nerve shredding six minute odyssey into an unrelenting nightmare. Listen below. Enjoy the trip! Continue reading Another From Destruction Unit

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Acoustic, Alternative, Americana, Country, Electronic, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock, Soul

Live Review: Wilderness Festival 2013

And so it was Wilderness again (or Wildness if you were the somewhat disconnected and over-excited John Newman) – this year even bigger (an increase in capacity to 15,000) and still sold out. It is surely the premier boutique festival on the circuit in the undeniably stunning setting of Cornbury Park, which happily lies within a short walk of Mackerel Towers. By its nature it … Continue reading Live Review: Wilderness Festival 2013

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Alternative, Industrial, Music, Punk, Rock

Pop. 1280 – Imps Of Perversion

Pop. 1280 memorably delivered a debut album, The Horror, that was so brutal in parts it managed to be almost physically painful to listen to. At the same time it had enough within its hardest of hardcore sensibilities to keep the visceral savagery tautly contained, imprisoned in a way that was mighty tense, but which also rewarded the listener with some mighty fine tunes to, well to … Continue reading Pop. 1280 – Imps Of Perversion

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MM Shorts 425: The Persian Leaps

The Persian Leaps are a four-piece noise pop band from St. Paul, MN. They’re releasing their 5-song debut EP, Praise Elephants on Aug 15, and while they think they sound like Big Star meets My Bloody Valentine, we think if we could play the guitar we would want to play it just like they do on this brilliant track Silent Treatment (click here for a name-your-price download). … Continue reading MM Shorts 425: The Persian Leaps

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Americana, Country, Music, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends…Collisionville

As concept albums go, this is one of the better ones we’ve come across. It is based upon the true story of the childhood humiliation visited upon Hank Williams, who as a small boy growing up fatherless in a rented shack, lived nearby to the neighbouring (and rich) family of Herman Pride. His fondness for playing with toy guns led him to be nicknamed Two-Gun … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Collisionville

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Alternative, Electronic, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock

MM Shorts 424: Gap Dream

Fantastic Sam from Gap Dream’s new long-player Shine Your Light is probably not typical MM fare, but damned if we haven’t been completely won over by the electro-glam undertones and the most infectiously catchy slab of dance-pop since, well since we don’t know when. Have a listen and we defy you not to tap something along to this tune. Out on Burger Records in November. Continue reading MM Shorts 424: Gap Dream

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