Lawrence & Leigh’s latest release from their EP Hills and Masts is the lush, dream-pop of Glow. Painstakingly constructed using vintage instruments and subtle synths, the song begins with an exploratory intro built on overdubbed choirs of the duo’s voices before transforming into a beat heavy pop anthem and then ending in 1960s style indie jazz with driving piano, brushed drums and doo-wop backing vocals. … Continue reading More from Lawrence & Leigh
We love the Thick Shakes and their brand of authentic, lo-fi, scuzzy garage rock so it was good to discover they are back with a new 7″ on Aurora Records. Take a listen and grab a track from their earlier Ooh Mommy EP. a Buy the single here. Download The Thick Shakes – Glass Mask mp3 (from Ooh Mommy EP) Continue reading New Single from the Thick Shakes
Taken from the blues parlance for the length of a one year prison sentence, Eleven Twenty-Nine is the new project of Tom Carter and Marc Orleans. This debut self-titled album, dedicated to the late Jack Rose, releases a sound that has done hard-time in the blues, from two performers who have constantly pushed the limits of rock guitar. Tom, a latter day Carter Family member … Continue reading Introducing…Eleven Twenty-Nine
Heard this on 6 Music the other day and made a note to check the band out asap – then, as if by magic, the video arrived in our in-box. The opening track of Young Rebel Set’s forthcoming debut album Curse Our Love, Lion’s Mouth will be released as a digital download through Big Flame tomorrow. a Pre-order the album here. Download Young Rebel Set … Continue reading Young Rebel Set – Lion’s Mouth Video
So the story goes, The Ruffled Feathers burned a piano, climbed Mt Seymour (near Vancouver BC), watched the sun rise on a nude beach, and had the fire department show up to one of the shoots while making their music video for their song Blueprints For Our Failed Revolution. On the evidence of the song, the band produces some spirited indie rock of the very best … Continue reading Introducing…The Ruffled Feathers
Gil Scott Heron – April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011. Download Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised mp3 Continue reading Gil Scott Heron RIP
Blind Willies began at San Francisco’s High School of the Arts as a duo playing covers of American folk songs and songwriter Alexei Wajchman’s originals which he began writing when he was 15. After their professional debut at San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, the band’s first two releases of all original songs, The Unkindness of Ravens (2007) and Everybody’s Looking for a Meal (2008), … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Blind Willies
Probably like most blogs, there are a handful of bands out there for whom the mere mention of new material can cause great excitement. The Roadside Graves are one such band for us here at MM. Ever since we fell for the brilliant My Son’s Home album in 2009, and particularly the wonderful Far And Wide (which is simply one of our favourite songs of … Continue reading New Album From The Roadside Graves
We could have called this no sleep til Hoxton, being that MM and I were so severely short of shut-eye by the time we arrived at the London Hoxton Bar and Kitchen last night. Never mind though, all was well because we were there to see the Cave Singers on the only UK date of their European tour. If we were tired, the band could … Continue reading Live Review: The Cave Singers, Hoxton, London 23/5/11
Up Up Up, from debut album In Light, is to be the debut release from the Deep South’s ebullient purveyors of melody, rhythm and anomalous harmonies, Givers. It’s a bouncing ode to resilience featuring a celebratory home-grown exoticism as the band mix afro-beat, Cajun and Zydeco into something new and unashamedly joyous and uplifting. In Light, will be released July 4th on Glassnote/ Island Records. … Continue reading Introducing…Givers
