Here are a few more videos that we’ve enjoyed recently. First up is a welcome return for Goldheart Assembly and a song called Linnaeus that comes from their second album due out in spring next year. Also keeping it pretty mellow is Kathleen Edwards with the video for her forthcoming single, Change The Sheets. a The Inspired And The Sleep offer up some sunburnt lo-fi … Continue reading Video Round Up
Uncompromising and heavy defines the authentic blues influenced pysch-rock of Howlin Rain, and they describe the making of their third album The Russian Wilds as “trying to blend Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Steely Dan’s Gaucho and Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge of Town“. First taste of the album (out on Valentines Day 2012 via American Recordings) comes in the form of Phantom In The Valley. … Continue reading MM Shorts 58: Howlin’ Rain
We have posted about Ryne Warner’s band Ohioan a couple of times in the lifetime of Mad Mackerel and so it was good news indeed to receive an e-mail from him with news of an album provocatively titled Balls Deep In Babylon. Having listened to it a few times, it is one of those records that slowly but surely grips you and then begins to … Continue reading Ohioan – Balls Deep In Babylon
It’s been a long, tiring and sad week. Death is all around, so it seems. And even when you’re viewing it in the third person, it’s hard to watch. It settles over you with a deft hand, weighting its heaviness into your head and inevitably your heart. Yet still the world continues to turn; life does go on for the rest of us, so it … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Saturday (10th December)
One thing you realise as the end of the year approaches and “best of” lists from everywhere start appearing is – despite every effort to the contrary – just how much you’ve missed out on during 2011. Evil Hand is a case in point – the comments on Song By Toad’s post of Friday led me to search out his album Huldra (free download here) … Continue reading Christmas Post 8: Evil Hand
About a year ago we wrote about the fabulously named Australian band, The Oyster Murders. Back then we posted Ghosts In Our Wake, and this track is now the lead song available as part of a four track EP for a “pay what you want” deal on their Bandcamp page here. Here is the video too: a Download The Oyster Murders – Ghosts In Our Wake … Continue reading More From The Oyster Murders
The Lost Brothers hail from Ireland and have just released their album So Long John Fante on Bird Dog Records. Boasting one of the sleeves of the year, it is a follow up to debut Trails of the Lonely. Tipping a hat to their literary hero (and one of ours), John Fante, this is an album which effortlessly, and brilliantly, wallows in a gumbo melting … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Lost Brothers
Here is the new, and appropriately creepy video for Feast of Fear by our favourite southern Gothic folk doomsayers Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks. a Continue reading Lonesome Wyatt Video
Paul Hawkins & The Bleak Midwinters are Paul Hawkins of Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences, his bandmate Ian Button and Mary Boeker, who usually sings with the Empty Gestures & the Count of Chateau Noir. Tonight I Will Be Santa involves a man breaking into a woman’s house on Christmas Eve and claiming to be Santa: “How did you get in here? I climb … Continue reading Christmas Post 7: Paul Hawkins & The Bleak Midwinters
Band of Skulls rock. This is an indisputable fact. They will be delivering the follow up to 2009’s much appreciated Baby Darling Doll Face Honey debut in early 2012. Titled Sweet Sour it will be released on Chris T Popper’s birthday – 20th February thus solving the present conundrum in one fell swoop. Have a listen to the title track… a Visit their Facebook here or website … Continue reading MM Shorts 57: Band Of Skulls
