Alternative, Americana, Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

Videos of the Day: Catfish & The Bottlemen || Shovels & Rope || Brilliant Beast || Sweet Gum Tree || Dinosaur Bones

Plenty to enjoy today as our videos come from boisterous up and coming indie-rockers Catfish & The Bottlemen, the punked-up raw country of Shovels & Rope, and the fuzzed up psychedelia and krautrock from Brilliant Beast. We also have the refined, vintage pop of Sweet Gum Tree featuring MM fave Isobel Campbell, and lastly the dark pop and grandiose hooks of Dinosaur Bones. Fill yer boots. . . … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Catfish & The Bottlemen || Shovels & Rope || Brilliant Beast || Sweet Gum Tree || Dinosaur Bones

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Alternative, Ambient, Folk, Indie, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

New Savaging Spires Album

In typical Savaging Spires fashion we were sent a Soundcloud link and very little else (i.e. nothing at all) to herald their new long player We Should Be Dead Together. From what little we have been able to glean, the album consists of eleven new tracks and will be released as a limited CD at the end of this month and out in January in … Continue reading New Savaging Spires Album

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Alternative, Music, Psychedelic, Rock

New Album From Holy Wave

We are thoroughly grooving out to Star Stamp, the first taste of Holy Wave’s forthcoming album entitled Relax, and out via the Reverberation Appreciation Society on the the 28th January on vinyl, CD, digital download and a cassette co-release with Burger Records. Taking elements of surf rock, hypnotic drone, fuzzy riffs and blending them all together with a dash of dissociative hallucinogenics and the occasional bad trip, … Continue reading New Album From Holy Wave

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Acoustic, Americana, Country, Folk, Music

Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Parmesans

Sitting somewhere between the traditional Americana of the Milk Carton Kids, and the drifters folk tales of Woody Guthrie, The Parmesans are a string trio from California specialising in complex, Doc Watsonesque guitar picking, harmonious mandolin lead, good ‘ol honky tonkin’ bass lines and all with an emphasis on tight three part vocal harmonies. Their album Wolf Eggs (with its excellent cover art) is a live … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Parmesans

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Mad Mackerel Recommends… Dead Waves

New York trio Dead Waves will release their new EP Take Me Away on the 10th December and it will make the perfect Christmas gift for anyone still lamenting the glory days of grunge, of the Pixies, the Melvins, and Mudhoney. Grab yourself the brilliant and brooding Over Me – distorted disillusionment never sounded so good or so cool! Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Dead Waves

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Candy Says Curate Compilation To Benefit Alzheimer’s Research

This started out as a CD-R that Candy Says gave away for free on their Space Tour – they wanted to introduce people to the the music their friends make. Fifty copies were burned, and they were gone before they knew it. So they asked all the bands if they could put the compilation online, and everyone thought it was a great idea (well almost … Continue reading Candy Says Curate Compilation To Benefit Alzheimer’s Research

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Indie, Music, Pop, Rock

MM Shorts 476: Dead Professional

Dead Professional (aka VA-based singer-songwriter John Harouff) strips classic rock and roll and new wave pop down to their barest elements using rudimentary drum loops and a pair of vocal processors. The concise song-craft walks the line between cool revivalism and warm bittersweet pop. Check out both sides of his coin with the unhurried yet sweetly insistent ballad Pillow Talk and the upbeat, infectiously jittery Downtown At … Continue reading MM Shorts 476: Dead Professional

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