2/3 Goat (pronounced: Two-Thirds Goat) is not your average New York City based farm band. On November 20th they will release their sophomore album Stream of Conscience, which was recorded entirely on vintage equipment, along with a music video for the title track, taking a stance against mountaintop removal coal mining. Fronted by lead singer Annalyse McCoy, the band’s fusion of Folk, Blues, Rock, and Country … Continue reading Introducing…2/3 Goat
We loved The Whalers first EP How The Ship Goes Down so it was good news to discover they released a new EP, Paddle Easy, yesterday. Paddle Easy is another varied, five-song release that demonstrates the bands growing aptitude for creating diverse music within the rock and roll genre, from the surf-inspired Cheat on Each Other, to the elegance of I’m a Pixel in Your … Continue reading Return Of The Whalers
Monday 5th December sees the release of the new Felice Brothers single Fire At The Pageant, on 7″ single & download. It is our favourite song from one of our favourite albums of the year. Here is the eerie, slightly disturbing video for it. a Be like us and go and see them live too: 06/12 LONDON Koko, 07/12 MANCHESTER Academy 2, 09/12 GLASGOW ABC, 10/12 … Continue reading MM Shorts 36: Felice Brothers Video
D.B. Rouse was born and raised in the north woods of Wisconsin, but he’s travelled everywhere with his guitar and worked in Alaska, in Maine, on a Cruise Ship in the Atlantic, and on a horse ranch near Austin Texas. He’s been a goat farmer and a lounge singer, a bartender and a pawn shop cashier, he’s packaged salmon and he’s harvested blueberries. His latest EP is called … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…D.B. Rouse
After a long absence, shoegazing noisemongers A Place To Bury Strangers are back with a new EP, Onwards To The Wall, on Dead Oceans. Here is the typically robust So Far Away. Prepare to be pulverised. Download A Place To Bury Strangers – So Far Away mp3 (from Onwards To The Wall EP) Continue reading MM Shorts 35: New EP From A Place To Bury Strangers
We recently streamed the wonderful new First Aid Kit single, the title track from forthcoming album The Lion’s Roar. Here’s the video. a Continue reading MM Shorts 34: First Aid Kit Video
We were big fans of The Morning Birds and their album The Quickening and so we were delighted to get news of their latest release, a six track EP titled Surrender To This (out on January 1st). We were even more delighted to find the trademark honeyed vocals and infectious rhythms were still very much in evidence. Check out our taster track Born To Be Alive, … Continue reading The Morning Birds Are Back
Milk & Biscuits are a lo-fi dream pop band from Brighton who will release their album Balcony Times on Big Salad Records on the 5th December. Take a listen to Rivers from the album. Continue reading MM Shorts 33: Milk & Biscuits
We’re busy catching up on a few things we weren’t able to post over the past few days. So, without further ado, here are some brilliant new ones including The Mountain Goats, the languid country rock of The Futurebirds, a brilliantly intense offering from Cloud Nothings, more icy electronica from Work Drugs, indie pop from Gross Magic and the psych blues rock of White Denim and … Continue reading MM Plays Catch Up
To celebrate our downloads working again we thought we would re-post our best of the month mix from October – more than 20 great tracks selected from our October posts and six new ones too. This time you can download and dive in. Download The Minks – Araby mp3 (from Araby 7″) Endearingly gloomy slice of indie-pop. Download The Bloody Hollies – Dirty Sex mp3 (from Yours Until The Bitter End) The dark … Continue reading Repost: Best of October 2011 Mix
