We Are Country Mice released a couple of 7″ singles last year, one of which, the EP Make Your Own Damn Fun featured one of our top songs of 2009 in the stomping, infectious A Good Old Fashioned Barn Raising. So we have been waiting eagerly to see what they would be doing next. And now we know – it will be a limited edition cassette … Continue reading New from We Are Country Mice
Perhaps you thought this fish was too mellow for anything like the Butthole Surfers? Well this Friday, I’m most definitely in the mood for something with its roots in punk. This week has seen verbal slights and physical swipes a-go-go. All I can say is this: people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, and if you throw any more at my kids, prepare to get … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
Last week we posted about the Adult Swim Singles Project and gave you the fourth in the weekly series of eight from Washed Out. The fifth is now doing the rounds and Before You Judge Me is a typically swaggering, boozy cut of garage rock from The Black Lips. Visit Black Lips MySpace here. Download The Black Lips – Before You Judge Me mp3 (from … Continue reading New from the Black Lips
We came across The Real Burnouts Fully Involved EP as a free download (amongst many others) at the excellent Quixodelic Records. The band play a woozy, insistent blend of garage and psychedelic rock that is the equal of anything else we’ve heard in recent times – and there’s some serious competition out there. There are echoes of everything from krautrock to The Monkees to Spacemen 3 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Real Burnouts
Listening to Brooklyn’s The Minks forthcoming single Funeral Song (out on Captured Tracks later this month, with an album due in September) is like going back in time to the goth tinged indie glory days of The Cure, The Bunnymen et al. Even the hair is the same. Funeral Song (an appropriately gloomy title) has a vintage Cure bassline, icy synths and shadowy, sombre lyrics about … Continue reading The Minks make MM all nostalgic
The Sister Ruby Band is the project of 21-year-old singer/songwriter Johnny Ruby. Vienna-born and Los Angeles- raised, Ruby currently resides in London where he is studying art at Goldsmith’s University of London. A Shot In The Dark is a five track demo EP that showcases a lot of musical styles – ranging from dylanesque, strummed Americana to Velvet’s inspired guitar feedback to Byrdsian harmonies. And … Continue reading Introducing…The Sister Ruby Band
We first heard this single on Radio 6 a few weeks ago and were completely blown away by the brilliant mix of full-on old-school metal riffing and its psychedelic overtones and climax. We made an immediate note to self to track this song down at all costs. The band is Tweak Bird, brothers Caleb (guitar, vocals) and Ashton Bird (drums, vocals), natives of Carbondale, IL … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Tweak Bird
It’s hard keeping up with all the new releases and good stuff that is coming our way. Here is a quick and dirty round-up of some of the tracks that have been tickling our ears recently. The Sandwitches have been MM faves ever since we got hold of their excellent How To Make Ambient Sadcake album last year. They now have a new one-sided 12″ … Continue reading MM’s Weekend Round Up
With Kathleen, The Ferocious Few have joyously raided the rock’n’roll cupboard and produced a sub two minute classic. With Porcelain Doll, The Ferocious Few have joyously raided the rock’n’roll cupboard and produced a sub two minute classic. With their debut album Juices, The Ferocious Few have joyously…well you probably get the picture. Like many before them, this Californian duo have plundered blues, punk, rockabilly, lo-fi … Continue reading Introducing…The Ferocious Few
Tonight’s topic: men with beards. This Friday evening, I’m out with two jolly fine chaps: MM and one of my bestest friends and main gigging partner (neither of whom currently sport beards). And off we will trot in an appropriately jaunty fashion, down the Cowley Road, to sway in time to the Band of Horses (almost uniformly, a group of men with an abundance of … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
