Following up anthemic first single Lilac, Welsh rockers Estrons have shared their new single Body. It is the latest excerpt from what is shaping up to be a highly anticipated debut long player You Say I’m Too Much, I Say You’re Not Enough, which is due out on 5th October. Listen below. Estrons Continue reading New from Estrons
Yesterday we had Flat Worms, today Phosphorescent. Life can’t be all bad can it? Matthew Houck recently announced his new album C’est La Vie (out 5th October via Dead Oceans). We’ve already shared the lead single New Birth In New England. Now he has followed it up with the tranquil beauty of pedal steel-laced, slow burner Christmas Down Under. It’s wonderful. Stream it below. Pre-order … Continue reading More From Phosphorescent
Flat Worms are back. And just like that a shit day just got transformed. The new 7″ single from the LA based threesome is titled The Apparition / Melt The Arms. The B side can be streamed below – it is furious, buzzing, magnificent, garage-punk that will put hairs on your chest and then melt them off again – all in just over two minutes. Just … Continue reading New Single From Flat Worms
Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser will release their new LP, Quarter Life Crisis, on the 12th October via BUFU Records. Produced by MM fave Colleen Green, and with more than a passing nod to influences like KISS, Van Halen, and The Ramones, it’s full of ripping guitar solos, plenty of shredding, and clever, relatable lyrics. As if that wasn’t enough it also mixes in an obsession with astrology, … Continue reading Introducing >>> Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser
YAK – White Male Carnivore Rays – Yesterday’s Faces Beachtape – Fix It Up Human People – Jenny Yowler – Angel Muncie Girls – Clinic Richard Thompson – My Rock, My Rope Rebecca Blasband – Love Is Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This week
With an album cover like that, and a name like Rude Dude and the Creek Freaks, one would be entitled to expect some high octane, garage-psych of the highest order. Thankfully, this first release from the Savannah record shop, Graveface Records & Curiosities, delivers on all counts. Top banana as we like to say. Stream the marvellously named Dan Halen here, and preorder the vinyl or digital … Continue reading Introducing >>> Rude Dude and the Creek Freaks
LA indiepop-punks Girl Friday take inspiration from a plethora of influences ranging from the SCUM Manifesto, socialist propaganda, pro-women rallies, The Breeders, witchcraft, mall goths, and surf rock of the 70s. On new single Decoration/Currency, the foursome have effortlessly fused together a seemingly clashing collage of musical styles with intelligently poetic lyrics wrapped in a pro-active, political mentality. Listen below, and to (possibly even better) previous … Continue reading Introducing >>> Girl Friday
The latest project to involve long standing MM fave James Jackson Toth (aka Wooden Wand), as well as Hans Chew, Nick Mitchell Maiato, Ryan Jewell and Dan Brown, is an album from One Eleven Heavy titled Everything’s Better. It wonderfully evokes the classic 70s cosmic country of Gram Parsons and The Grateful Dead via their own unique take on that era’s psychedelic jams and gnarly roots rock. Check … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… One Eleven Heavy
Born (accidentally) in Canada, raised in Blackpool and now hiding in Melbourne, polarizing anti-genre artist Benjamin Shaw returns with a new long player Megadead. Sitting somewhere between Smog and Four Tet, it is a wonderfully miserable album of disarmingly accessible songs filled with fuzz, brittle melodies, looping guitars, ‘80s synth, self-sabotage, self-doubt, violent fantasy and uncertain swagger. The album will be released on the 31st August … Continue reading New Album From Benjamin Shaw
No less than thirteen corking new tracks this week from the brilliant hypnotic post-punk thrum of FEWS to the infectious indie pop of Hater by way of a Ramones inspired Colleen Green, wiry art-punk from Public Practice, fuzzy urgency from Ron Gallo, raucous arena ready rock from We Were Promised Jetpacks, and sunburnt, pastoral psych from The Smoking Trees. And lots more besides… Do we … Continue reading Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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