For anyone who didn’t pick this up from the ever reliable Stereogum, this is an absolute gem of a track – truly as good as the band’s name is bad. Bobby (what?) are an indie band from Massachusetts and will release their self-titled debut on 21st June. Taster track, Ginger (Water Birth) features Mountain Man’s Molly Sarle and is a gorgeous exercise in musicianship. The … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Bobby
The Lucid Dream released their new single Love In My Veins on the 30th May so we’re about a week late on this one. No matter, because it is an absolute stormer of a track. From the off, it displays guitar riffs soaked in psychedelic blues with pounding drum rolls and reverb drenched vocals. The track builds and picks up tempo with crashing cymbals and the … Continue reading New Single from The Lucid Dream
Tomorrow, June 7th, sees the release of Larceny & Old Lace, the new album by The Coathangers. It is their third full length record and sees the scrappy, devil-may-care anarchy of their earlier releases tightened up a smidgeon and the repertoire expanded a little sonically. The outcome is still full-on garage rock, but this time there are some twists with the thrash and while the … Continue reading The Coathangers – Larceny & Old Lace Album
Little Horn began when Atlanta musician Keith Forrester wrote some songs about, as per usual, hard stuff he was going through. Being shy and reclusive about singing, it wasn’t until a group picking session in Alabama where he was asked to sing a folk song that everyone else had forgotten the words to that his friend Daniel Bellury noticed his potential. After that fateful day, … Continue reading Introducing…Little Horn
On June 27th, the excellent Grass House will release A Cradle, A Short Breath as a follow-up to last November’s single Lazy Bones. In a conscious effort to avoid being type-cast in a dark or brooding vein, the song hints at the lighter side of the London group’s repertoire. Even so, it is still menacing enough to send most other indie bands screaming to their … Continue reading New Single From Grass House
Big Black’s Kerosene is a bonafide classic in our book and not a song to be tackled lightly – not even on a Big Black tribute night – you’ve got to be very brave or very stupid. Thankfully St. Vincent more than does it justice in this live cut from The Bowery. In fact this, as they say, rocks. You need to watch this… a Download … Continue reading St. Vincent Covers Big Black
After posting about Savaging Spires last week, their record label Critical Heights got in touch to recommend recent Fire Records signing, The Virgin Passages. This is the opening track from their first official album. Horizon is taken from the album of the same name and is due out in October 2011. Virgin Passages have a most engaging folkish strum intersecting with psychedelic experimentation and a … Continue reading Introducing…The Virgin Passages
To be frank you wonder what would have become of Dave Cloud if he hadn’t been a musician. New album Practice In The Milky Way is 20 tracks of unhinged musical madness that is perfectly described as gutter-minded blues. After his 20 year catalogue was rediscovered by Fire Records and reissued in the Napoleon Of Temperance compilation of 2006, Cloud, accompanied by various members of … Continue reading New From Dave Cloud & The Gospel Of Power
Here are the juiciest cuts from our May postings rounded up and presented as one marvellous mix plus a couple of cracking new tracks as well. Be sure to check out all our previous ‘Best Of the Month’ mixes in the sidebar too. Download Country Mice – Morning Son mp3 (from Twister) Country rock and blistering sonic experiments combining to deliver a brilliant apocalyptic ballad. Download Howling … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: May 2011
On June 28th Efren will release their first full length, full band album, Rise On Up And Melt. Efren began as Scott Low, who wrote and recorded the debut album Thunder and Moan in the spring of 2009. With friends Low performed the songs live and the band was born. Playing almost 100 shows in the first year and recording and releasing a full band … Continue reading New from Efren
