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Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January

Here is our regular round up of the best of January’s posts plus a couple of new tracks for your listening pleasure – all beautifully designed to make one perfect mixtape. Download Wooden Wand – The DNR Waltz mp3 More classic down-tempo folk from greatly underrated MM fave. Download Phosphorescent – Are You Ready For The Country? mp3 Riff-heavy, mean-assed cover which brilliantly captures the double-edged viciousness … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January

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Alternative, Blues, Garage, Indie, Music, Punk, Rock

The Kills Are Back

The Kills have long been one of our most favourite bands here at MM, and Fried My Little Brains would definitely still rank near the top of my hypothetical “favourite songs of all time” list that we all carry around in our heads. So after a too-long hiatus, we’re delighted that they’re back with a new album, Blood Pressures, released on Domino Records, which is scheduled … Continue reading The Kills Are Back

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New EP from Alcoholic Faith Mission

Danish indie-folk quintet, Alcoholic Faith Mission will be releasing their new 5 song EP entitled And The Running With Insanity in North America on March 29th. Though they hail from Denmark, the band was actually formed in Brooklyn in 2006 by high school friends Thorben and Sune. Last year, their third and most renowned album, Let This Be The Last Night We Care, was released in the US … Continue reading New EP from Alcoholic Faith Mission

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Debut album from Alexander (of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros)

The self-titled solo album from Alexander Ebert of the wonderful Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros will be released on the 1st March on Community Music (via Vagrant) and on 28th February via Rough Trade. The album consists of ten brand new songs that Alexander wrote and composed entirely himself while touring with his main band. Alone in his room, he had his guitar, a Lowery … Continue reading Debut album from Alexander (of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros)

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Country, Indie, Music, Rock

Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (28th Jan)

Having grown tired of being cross on a Friday (see various preceding TFIs – if you’re bored), I have revisited the joy of a gin and tonic, with a gimlet, of course … I have avoided reading the football press and the pressing legal case that has menaced our business, avoided the hatchet faced lying psycho at the school gate, and decided that regarding life … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (28th Jan)

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Introducing…Earth Girl Helen Brown (sort of)

A while ago we posted a track from the recent, self-titled Sonny + The Sandwitches EP, which has rapidly grown to be a massive favourite here at MM. However, it was only recently that we discovered Sonny Smith’s 100 Records project in which he created more than 100 fictional bands, then wrote songs for them and enlisted musicians (including Ty Segall and Kelley Stoltz amongst … Continue reading Introducing…Earth Girl Helen Brown (sort of)

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Alternative, Electronic, Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

New track from The Luyas

February 22nd sees the release of the Luyas album, Too Beautiful To Work. We’re pleased to share another taste from the LP. Title track Too Beautiful To Work is futuristic pop with elastic wordplay dancing atop rhythmic keyboards and a motorik beat. The layers of sound are dense and lush, augmented by the virtuosic violin of sometimes Luya and all the time Arcade Fire member … Continue reading New track from The Luyas

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New single from Ex Libras

Ex Libras finished off 2010 by taking their EP, Cut(s), on a mini tour of the UK. Since then they have shunned the spotlight, keen to develop their second album due for release later this year. However, they are never ones to stay quiet for too long, the band have decided to punctuate the silence between their last EP and the hotly anticipated album by … Continue reading New single from Ex Libras

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Alternative, Blues, Garage, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

MM’s Video Update

Here are a few of the better/more interesting videos that have found our way into the in-box recently. First up are The Whigs, a band we’ve posted about a few times. This is the band keeping it simple in their self-directed video for So Lonely from current album In The Dark. Rodeo Massacre are a Swedish/French band in thrall to the sixties garage scene and … Continue reading MM’s Video Update

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Skull Defekts

We’re not sure how to accurately describe this track from Swedish band The Skull Defekts. It’s minimal and powerful, it’s a bit raga, a bit drone, has some tribal chants, lots of repetition, it’s hypnotic, a bit trancey, some pyschedelia and seriously rhythmic! In a wholly good way it reminds us a bit of everything from the 60s to the 90s – from Cornershop to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Skull Defekts

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