London three-piece Flowers release their first single on Fortuna POP! next month. Despite only having formed last year, they are already an enticing blend of fuzzed-up wall-of-sound noise and jangly indie pop, but somehow they have also managed to come up with the stark, minimalist genius of Stuck, one of three songs on the single, and played on a single-string bass with just a plaintively beautiful vocal … Continue reading MM Shorts 418: Flowers
Back in June we featured the whiskey drenched folk of Jesse Woods and his track Gold In The Air in one of our Video of the Day posts. Since then we’ve become rather more intimately acquainted with his forthcoming debut album Get Your Burdens Lifted, which sees a release on August 6th via Guns In The Sun. And the pleasure has been all ours because this … Continue reading New Single From Jesse Woods
New York punk three piece Pedico are soon to be releasing their first EP The Days Are Just Packed, from which comes this charmingly titled ditty, You Can’t Get AIDS If You Never Get Tested. It seems somewhat inappropriate to call it infectious… . Continue reading MM Shorts 417: Pedico
Chloë Sunshine are a Brooklyn-based all girl surf rock band. They have just released a new single called Want You. It’s about that feeling you have when you first meet someone and you absolutely cannot get enough of them. It is a wonderful blend of jangly, shoegazey pop with echoing vocals and Beach Boys style harmonies. The song can be downloaded for free below and will also be included … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Chloë Sunshine
Some city themed videos for you today. First from Shark Week shot in Washington DC’s Puerto Rican district, then Chastity Belt take on Seattle from the comfort of a couch in their video for excellent track Seattle Party. Next we have The Secret History’s Brooklyn centered video for Johnny Panic (Forget Everything) and lastly A Grave With No Name’s video for The Steps, made from … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Shark Week || Chastity Belt || The Secret History || A Grave With No Name
Desert Stars is a five-piece band from Brooklyn, formed at the tail end of 2008, and now releasing their debut long player Habit Shackles. It is a intriguing mix of indie rock, shoegaze and psych pop, tipping its hat to Beach House certainly, and Mazzy Star, and also with nods to bands like The Walkmen too, but always confident enough (and intriguing enough) to demand more than … Continue reading Debut Album From Desert Stars
Independent music from the West Coast of Scotland has always had a kinship with psychedelic pop music from the West Coast of America. Orange Juice loved The Byrds, Teenage Fanclub wanted to be in Buffalo Springfield, The Pastels adored The Electric Prunes. And so it is with Dream Boys – a modern-day trans-Atlantic love affair realized. Consisting of three Americans and one Scotsman, the group filters … Continue reading Debut Album From Dream Boys
Oh boy, you get exactly what you might expect from a band called Ming City Rockers, and we are mighty glad about it. Latest single, Chic and the Motherfuckers, was released a few days ago and the bad boy influences from Eddie Cochran to the Stooges run through the heart of it, setting the song and the band apart like a seam of gold in … Continue reading Introducing >>> Ming City Rockers
Five excellent videos to start the weekend for you. We have the new video from PINS for Get With Me, shot on Brighton beach and Dension Witmer’s pond-gazing video for Keep Moving Brother, Keep Moving Sister. There is Troubadour Rose’s video for the lovely Tell Me, from Catfish & The Bottlemen comes a new video for Pacifier, and lastly a lo-fi, alt-country murder ballad from … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Pins || Denison Witmer || Troubadour Rose || Catfish & The Bottlemen || Pauline Andrès
New York City-based Americana roots rock trio Ten Ton Man releases their dark, emotional track Ditty from their debut self-titled album that originally saw a release at the end of 2012. The dark undertones of the single express the weariness of someone who has decided to leave a relationship that is no longer working in order to pursue a life he imagined. It is well … Continue reading MM Shorts 416: Ten Ton Man
