A new album from Joe Pug is just cause for celebration round these parts and The Great Despiser will be released on April 24th. The first taste and following on from Hymn numbers 35 and 101, which have already seen daylight on his Nation of Heat EP, is Hymn #76. It features in this preview video for the album and provides plenty of reasons to … Continue reading MM Shorts 110: First Taste of Joe Pug’s New Album
The skewed, surreal and sometimes insane racket created by Mummy Short Arms received a lot of love from MM in 2011 and made it onto a couple of our contributors end of year best of lists for their debut single Cigarette Smuggling. Coming across like a Beefheart for the digital age, vocalist James Allen howls and growls like a cross between Frank Black and Leonard Cohen and that, … Continue reading New Single From Mummy Short Arms
Yorkshire four piece the Van Doos have just made a demo of this new track available for free download. Look Away Now is a thoroughly enjoyable, uncomplicated slab of indie rock that shows off a good ear for a melody and a liking for an upbeat chorus. Well worth checking out. Download The Van Doos – Look Away Now mp3 (Demo) Continue reading MM Shorts 109: The Van Doos
Bonfire Nights make swirling moody psych-pop: a clash of surf and synth, shoegaze with purple haze, think Virginia Plain meets Jesus & Mary Chain. With mantra like drones, shaking bones and sweet candy overtones, Bonfire Nights like to blur the boundaries. Adopting a minimalist ethos, the band recorded their first self-titled EP on a four-track analogue tape machine. While the approach was modest, the outcome was an … Continue reading Introducing >>> Bonfire Nights
Slept in this week. Can you tell? Went to London on a (TFI) Friday to meet up with big bro. Looked at some rather amazing paintings, drank a lot of red wine, slept through my train stop and woke up somewhere as sleepy as me. Oops. Just me and a bevvied up hoodie asking me for some more drink. As if. Fortunately, and quite unbelievably … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (on Saturday): 3rd March
Despite a name that rhymes almost too perfectly with the UK’s forces sweetheart of the second world war, Lera Lynn is someone who inhabits an altogether different niche. First coming to prominence with her debut album Have You Met Lera Lynn? released in the spring of 2011, it was a record of plain speaking and cut-throat honesty that showcased her sultry voice to perfection as … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Lera Lynn
Barry-Sean in particular fell for the melancholic yet curiously uplifting charms of Story Books when we posted about them back at the very beginning of the year. Now they are poised to release their debut single All Those Arrows on Monday and you can have a listen to it right here. You can also buy the 7″ here. a Continue reading MM Shorts 108: Debut Single From Story Books
The Lonesome Savages are a Madison band featuring members of Dead Luke as well as ex-members of Zola Jesus. They have a debut four track 7″ EP out on the ever excellent Kind Turkey Records titled All Outta Love. Singer Max Elliott howls over a punkabilly masterpiece that teeters on Cramps-esque infatuation but thankfully goes way beyond simple pastiche or plagiarism. No sir, this is just honest 50s … Continue reading Introducing >>> The Lonesome Savages
Coming via Clash Magazine, the monthly free digital samplers from Cargo Records are always an eclectic mix and a delight to download and explore. And so it is with the latest one. Featuring twelve tracks and showcasing the talents of amongst others The Men, The Wedding Present, Robert Pollard, That Fucking Tank and Caretaker. We’ve included two of our favourites below in the shape of the back … Continue reading Free Cargo Collective Digital Sampler
The warm, heartfelt folk stylings of The Great Lake Swimmers is a lovely thing to behold and the band have made available an album of stunning live songs recorded at a Royal Canadian Legion pub – dubbed The Legion Sessions. They chose this relaxed, informal setting to capture many of the new songs from latest album Lost Channels and it stands as an intimate and … Continue reading Great Lake Swimmers: Free Album Download
