I often think, quite sadly, that the good old fashioned political protest song is a dying breed in the modern age. So it was all the more pleasing to get this short and pithy missive from Ed of MM faves and undeniably brilliant down-tempo miserabilists The War Crimes. “Blair’s appearance at the Chilcott whitewash gotta me thinkin’ about an old tune of ours. Geronimo was of … Continue reading The War Crimes Protest
Here are three gems of garage rock/punk/pop joy for you, especially designed to brighten up a drab and dreary January Sunday. We’ve posted about the Mind Spiders and the Thick Shakes before. Both play a wonderfully uncluttered, joyous form of proto garage-rock that is simple, unaffected and damn catchy. We have a track from the forthcoming Mind Spiders self-titled album and the Thick Shakes new … Continue reading Let’s Go Garage…
We posted in October about arch Teeside noisemongers The Chapman Family and the video for their excellent single All Fall. The band are preparing the release of their much anticipated debut album Burn Your Town and their next single Anxiety, both out in March and if anything, the video for this one is even better. And, more importantly, it is another cracking song. Watch here … Continue reading New Single & Video from The Chapman Family
A while ago we posted the magnificently titled Balding College Girls by The Hairs, a lo-fi, jangly diy masterpiece. Now they’re back with the equally magnificently titled Jack Becomes A Policewoman and it is another quirky, garage pop gem. Visit their MySpace here. Download The Hairs – Jack Becomes A Policewoman mp3 (from Hairs Make Music) Download The Hairs – Balding College Girls mp3 Continue reading New from The Hairs
Michigan quartet Ghost Heart are about to release their debut album, The Tunnel, which will be available from January 29, on Friction Records. The band happily defy all pigeonholes and categorisation…there is some folk, some electronica, some samples, some tribal percussion, even a bit of shoegaze guitar sound, and all is topped off with layered vocals to deliver songs that are equally expansive and accessible, … Continue reading Introducing…Ghost Heart
Gay Pirates is the first single from the new Cosmo Jarvis album Is the World Strange or am I Strange? (scheduled for release late March 2011). It tells the story of two male lovers facing extreme discrimination in the inhospitable and, as you can imagine, far from accepting social climate of the pirate heyday. The single is about the triumph of love against all odds and … Continue reading New Single from Cosmo Jarvis
Here at MM, The Mountain Goats are a bit of a marmite band, you either love ’em (Barry-Sean) or you don’t (Mrs M) and there’s not much grey area in between. So there will probably be delight and complete indifference in equal measure at the imminent release of new album All Eternals Deck and advance taster Damn These Vampires. I actually think this horror inflected … Continue reading Mountain Goats: New Album Taster
We first heard this just before Christmas on Radio 6 and meant to post about it, but good intentions were swept away by the deluge of festivities. Better late than never though… Lead singer and bassist of Manchester indie legends A Certain Ratio, Jez Kerr has plenty of musical heritage to draw on being in at the beginning of the rise of Factory and dipping … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Jez Kerr
Lars Finberg and Susanna Welbourne of much lauded indie band The Intelligence have a side project on the go titled Puberty, which make Google searches interesting if nothing else. There have been a few demos doing the rounds on the web since spring of last year, but their first (self-titled) single proper is out on Telephone Explosion imminently. Take a listen to Invitations below with … Continue reading Introducing…Puberty (the band that is…)
Akron/Family’s new release S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT is starting to generate a lot of excitement and buzz…here’s the latest track, Silly Bears, to be released from the album. Compare it to So It Goes which we posted a little while back. Pre-order the album here. Download Akron/Family – Silly Bears mp3 (from S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey … Continue reading More from Akron/Family’s new album
