Son Cats are a psychedelic garage-rock group hailing from Portland, OR. The Cats have also lived in the backseat of a Honda Accord and done time in Missoula, Montana and Brooklyn, New York. Alex Reed Wilson howls and rips on the guitar and Jasmine Dreame Wagner thrashes the drums. They released their debut single last month in the shape of O’Dell backed with 1971. Both … Continue reading Introducing…Son Cats
My Pet Monster are a Cardiff-based Noise-Pop band and they recently put out a free EP titled Soundtracks that is (a) pretty tasty and (b) downloadable for free from their Bandcamp page here. Download My Pet Monster – Radio mp3 (from Soundtracks EP) Continue reading MM Shorts 16: My Pet Monster
Last week Extra Arms released their new album In Parallel. On first listen you might think it is another record of well-done indie rock, but invest a bit of time with it and quite quickly you discover there is actually quite a bit more going on under the surface. Lyrically strong, and with an undercurrent of the blues faintly present in the background, the music … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Extra Arms
New Underground Railroad single 8 Millimeters (out today on One Little Indian) – was inspired by the bar of the same name in Berlin’s hip Prenzlauer Berg district, visited during a break from the recording of their latest album White Night Stand. The strange atmosphere down there is what give the words their disassociated millennial feel, and the song its uneasy descending blues. The overall … Continue reading MM Shorts 15: Underground Railroad Video
Does anyone remember Mr Benn? Emerging from 52 Festive Road to embark on an adventure in his new guise. As I vaguely recall, many of the Mr Benn tales had a strong moral undertone. Everything always turned out well if Mr Benn was there, with his kind and reassuring avuncular manner. Good old Mr Benn. Old things, gold things. Just like friends. Saw some goldies … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (14th October)
Critical Heights released the long anticipated self-titled debut of mysterious London duo, Savaging Spires yesterday. The album is a wonderful exercise in haunted, ambient folk, drone and hazy melancholia. By way of celebration the band have given up a new track, the twinkling, sunlit Apostrophe Lake. You can buy the album from Boomkat here. Download Savaging Spires – Apostrophe Lake mp3 (from Savaging Spires) Download Savaging Spires – Bending The Rules … Continue reading Savaging Spires Debut Album Released
After yesterday we thought we’d done with giving you brilliant free stuff for a while, but seems not. The very wonderful Loose Music boasts a roster of artists that are amongst the Mackerel’s most favourites – for starters they include the Felice Brothers, one of Mrs M’s discoveries of the year in Hurray For The Riff Raff, and Americana legends The Handsome Family. So when … Continue reading Free Loose Music Sampler
Band Of Skulls will return with a follow up to their excellent debut album Baby Darling Doll Face Honey in early 2012. In the meantime you can check out the video for first single off the new album, The Devil Takes Care of His Own. a Continue reading MM Shorts 9: Band Of Skulls New Video
It is fair to say that Dog Scratched Ear, the first track to be released from Donkey Jacket, the new album from Welsh duo Henry’s Funeral Shoe has become the unofficial anthem of MM over the past few weeks – a perfect mix of irresistible blues boogie topped with a killer riff has made it one of our tunes of the year so far. The album … Continue reading Henry’s Funeral Shoe Release Donkey Jacket
Today has been an epic day for providing you with top quality free stuff and having already given you with the wonderful Owsley Brothers and Last American Buffalo we are going keep up the standards set and finish off the trio of posts with the brilliant Coke Weed. Purveyors of some of the most brilliantly off-kilter indie rock we’ve heard in a long time. It … Continue reading Freebie 3: Coke Weed
