Category: Rock

Americana, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock

Blessed Feathers & Peter Wolf Crier Cover RHCP

Both Blessed Feathers and Peter Wolf Crier have featured a few times on Mad Mackerel and the two recently teamed up to record a cover of the Red Hot Chili Peppers track Porcelain. According to Blessed Feathers’ Donivan Berube, “The Porcelain cover came about quite naturally, as Peter utterly worships John Frusciante, more for his solo albums than his work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. … Continue reading Blessed Feathers & Peter Wolf Crier Cover RHCP

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MM Shorts 212: New From Daughn Gibson

We’ve already picked Daughn Gibson’s debut, All Hell, as one of our albums of the year so far (keep scrolling down the side bar on the left for our full list) and it has resulted in him signing with Sub Pop. Here is the first taste of his labours with new song Reach Into The Fire. a Continue reading MM Shorts 212: New From Daughn Gibson

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MM Shorts 211: New LP From The Dandelion War

The Dandelion War put reverb on everything. The indie rock quintet from Oakland, California formed in 2008 after connecting through Craigslist. With band members from diverse backgrounds and nationalities, the group’s sound is influenced by musical styles including ambient, shoegaze, post-rock, and electronic. New album We Were Always Loyal to Lost Causes will be released on 12th September, on Deep Elm Records. Grab yourself the seven … Continue reading MM Shorts 211: New LP From The Dandelion War

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New Single From Grass House

We have long been admirers of Grass House on MM, ever since they announced themselves early in 2010, with the wonderful Plough More Sky EP (containing brilliant lead track A Cockroach, still a regular on MM playlists to this day) and then followed it up with a consistent series of top-notch singles and EPs. To our mind, they have not received anything like the acclaim or … Continue reading New Single From Grass House

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Spook Houses Release Trying

Spook Houses’ aptly titled debut, Trying LP (released last week) is a nine track offering of brash influenced slacker anthems, and is an opus to suburban restlessness, 90s basement rock and rambunctious punk roots. We’ve already posted the excellent taster track American and now the band have made available another thrashing angst-ridden single, Bad Sound for your listening pleasure. The quartet infuse their scuzzy charred … Continue reading Spook Houses Release Trying

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…To Kill A King

To Kill A King have made their Word Of Mouth EP available for free download via their Bandcamp page. They played to great reviews at the Wilderness Festival and we were sorry to have missed them – as a result we went back to the EP and gave their blend of folk and orchestral pop another listen and we’re glad we did. Watch the video … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…To Kill A King

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