We’re desperately cramming in as much as we can this month – new stuff, our Twelve Days of Christmas feature, festive tunes, and shortly our Best Of The Year lists and guest posts. Consequently, all these tunes are deserving of more time and more space than we’re giving them in this post, but rest assured there is a veritable feast of musical delights to get … Continue reading Quick & Dirty Round Up
MAD MACKEREL’S TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS For our first ever Festive Feature on Mad Mackerel, we asked twelve of our favourite bands and artists of 2011 to answer twelve questions and we will publish them over the next twelve days taking us up to Christmas Eve. Day 2 sees the lovely, but certifiably unhinged Lovely Eggs taking part. Their surreal indie sing-along anthem Don’t Look At … Continue reading (FESTIVE FEATURE) THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS No 2: THE LOVELY EGGS
MAD MACKEREL’S TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS For our first ever Festive Feature on Mad Mackerel, we asked twelve of our favourite bands and artists of 2011 to answer twelve questions and we will publish them over the next twelve days taking us up to Christmas Eve. Kicking us off on Day 1 are Twilight Hotel who released the superb When The Wolves Go Blind album … Continue reading (FESTIVE FEATURE) THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS No 1: TWILIGHT HOTEL
On February 7, next year, Fluff & Gravy Records will release Drunken Prayer’s sophomore full-length, Into the Missionfield, an eleven track collection of dark tales and darker melodies. A journey down a path less travelled, but always more rewarding. Call it what you will – alt. country, Americana, folk-rock, or a number of other genres, Drunken Prayer makes an honest tune, an unflinching narrative of the harsh and beautiful harmonies … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Drunken Prayer
Here are a few more videos that we’ve enjoyed recently. First up is a welcome return for Goldheart Assembly and a song called Linnaeus that comes from their second album due out in spring next year. Also keeping it pretty mellow is Kathleen Edwards with the video for her forthcoming single, Change The Sheets. a The Inspired And The Sleep offer up some sunburnt lo-fi … Continue reading Video Round Up
Uncompromising and heavy defines the authentic blues influenced pysch-rock of Howlin Rain, and they describe the making of their third album The Russian Wilds as “trying to blend Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Steely Dan’s Gaucho and Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge of Town“. First taste of the album (out on Valentines Day 2012 via American Recordings) comes in the form of Phantom In The Valley. … Continue reading MM Shorts 58: Howlin’ Rain
It’s been a long, tiring and sad week. Death is all around, so it seems. And even when you’re viewing it in the third person, it’s hard to watch. It settles over you with a deft hand, weighting its heaviness into your head and inevitably your heart. Yet still the world continues to turn; life does go on for the rest of us, so it … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Saturday (10th December)
About a year ago we wrote about the fabulously named Australian band, The Oyster Murders. Back then we posted Ghosts In Our Wake, and this track is now the lead song available as part of a four track EP for a “pay what you want” deal on their Bandcamp page here. Here is the video too: a Download The Oyster Murders – Ghosts In Our Wake … Continue reading More From The Oyster Murders
The Lost Brothers hail from Ireland and have just released their album So Long John Fante on Bird Dog Records. Boasting one of the sleeves of the year, it is a follow up to debut Trails of the Lonely. Tipping a hat to their literary hero (and one of ours), John Fante, this is an album which effortlessly, and brilliantly, wallows in a gumbo melting … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Lost Brothers
Here is the new, and appropriately creepy video for Feast of Fear by our favourite southern Gothic folk doomsayers Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks. a Continue reading Lonesome Wyatt Video
