Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog will release their new album entitled B-Room on October 1st via Anti- Records (pre-order here). The first taste is the gorgeously soulful and melancholic album opener The Truth – watch and listen below. . Continue reading First Taste Of The Truth From New Dr. Dog Album
Acclaimed jewel of dark country blues Cash Savage, and her band The Last Drinks, release their second LP The Hypnotiser on Friday 2 August. A mix of blues, hardscrabble barn-dance stompers, psychedelic country and raw soul, the record swings from emotion to emotion – one minute mournful lament, the next bare knuckled rage with nary a backwards glance. It is a record that is at once … Continue reading New Album From Cash Savage And The Last Drinks
Here we are again, a round up of twenty five of June’s best downloads on Mad Mackerel (plus a few new tunes) that combine to make another perfect mix for those long summer days. Stick these on the iPod, crack a cold one, relax and enjoy! Honeyslide – Drippin Swathed in reverb, bathed in noise and drowned in dreamy vocals. [Click through for free download] … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: June 2013
The renowned actor and comedian Patton Oswalt (King of Queens), provides a brilliant comedic interpretation of the soul anthem The Magic Clap by Oakland group The Coup. Watch it, it is excellent. . Continue reading MM Shorts 398: The Coup – The Magic Clap Video
Warning Signs is the new five track EP from Utah’s five-piece The Mighty Sequoyah. Mixing folk, surf pop, 60s soul-style harmonies and a little bit of doo-wop, it is a sweetly reverential nod to more innocent times, of cruising boardwalks, drive-in movies, roadside diners and soda fountains and they carry it off brilliantly. Listen to the evocative I Won’t Be There and buy the whole EP here. … Continue reading New EP From The Mighty Sequoyah
King Khan & The Shrines have unveiled the very first new track Born to Die, from the brand new album Idle No More, set for release on September 3rd on Merge Records. A mere six years since the release of their last album, What Is!?, the new record is full of sweat-drenched, ass shaking, groovy, psyched-out numbers, complete with rip roaring horn lines, southern fried … Continue reading New Track From King Khan & The Shrines
Here are eight of the very best tracks to reach out to us from our inbox and the internet over the past few days. First up we have a new track from the forthcoming album Soft Will from Smith Westerns, which distills the spirit of Big Star into a delicately reverential tribute to classic 70s radio rock. We have the superbly maudlin, gloom-pop of Franklin the … Continue reading Thursday Means Eight Of The Best
Black Joe Lewis have announced details of their brand new full-length LP, Electric Slave, to be released on August 27 on Vagrant Records. The first taste is the excellently named Skulldiggin, which grips from the off with a blistering, distorted blues riff of righteous fury and a gruff vocal of just the right amount of hellfire and brimstone zeal to match. Welcome back boys! Continue reading New Album From Black Joe Lewis
Believe it or not, Mad Mackerel has been around for more than five years now. During that time we’ve posted more than 4,000 times, and offered more than 5,000 songs for your listening pleasure. And more than three quarters of a million people have paid MM a visit during our lifetime on Google’s godawful blogspot and since April 2010 on WordPress. We asked some of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel The Last Five Years – Dr Roddy Looks Back
We’re still rounding up all those new releases, new tunes, good tunes, and more to keep your day as varied and joyous as ours…Ha! And so we have another ‘cop-out” post prompted by another fearsome backlog, which has once again kickstarted our anxiety over (a) failing to keep up, and (b) failing to give the appropriate time and text that these releases deserve and (c) … Continue reading More Rounding Up To Be Done
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