Alternative, Garage, Metal, Music, Punk, Rock

Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Rakehells

After five years spent scuzzing up New York’s club circuit, the Rakehells have finally hit the recording studio. The result is a blistering 15-track album (out on September 21) that harnesses the band’s influences the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones, the Stooges, et al, as well as more contemporary bands like Guns N’ Roses and Metallica. The album, Please Yourself; or, the Devil in the Flesh, certainly captures … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Rakehells

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Alternative, Country, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Metal, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock

MM’s Best of the Month: August

Here is our usual round-up of the best songs we’ve posted in August together with a couple of our favourite covers and three new songs to tempt you. Another perfect mix tape we think. Black Angels – Telephone mp3 Gentler psych-pop approach from new album calling to mind classic era Zombies Dreamend – Magnesium Light mp3 Superb psych-folk from the loosely joined and hellish story … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: August

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Country, Folk, Music, Rock

Free download from Justin Townes Earle

Justin Townes Earle, son of MM fave and legendary troubadour Steve Earle, releases his new album Harlem River Blues on the 20th September through Bloodshot Records. It is one we are looking forward to immensely. To mark the UK releases, he has made the title-track available as a free mp3 download – just click this link to get your copy. He will also be touring the … Continue reading Free download from Justin Townes Earle

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Introducing…Roy Paymon

We had a pretty unassuming e-mail through recently from Roy Paymon mentioning his recently released album Guarding Crows. He described it as a mixture of Appalachian folk and Greek Cretan music and he recorded and produced it himself on bare bones equipment in Brooklyn. The whole album is streaming on his website here, but he also sent us a couple of tracks to listen to … Continue reading Introducing…Roy Paymon

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New from War On Drugs

We were particularly delighted to get an e-mail from Secretly Canadian yesterday with details of the new War On Drugs album titled Future Weather. The record follows their debut release Wagonwheel Blues, which was a truly brilliant record mixing straight up US rock with experimental folk and psychedelia, and was one of our favourites of 2008. In fact we had to buy it twice as … Continue reading New from War On Drugs

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Folk, Indie, Music

Introducing…David’s Lyre

Tear Them Down is the debut single from David’s Lyre and has justifiably been picking up a lot of positive press and major label interest. The song is a cracker and has echoes of Wild Beasts without quite the vocal histrionics and you can view it the official video for it below. While you would certainly put him in the Folk corner, there is definitely … Continue reading Introducing…David’s Lyre

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Mad Mackerel Recommends…Pepper Rabbit

Pepper Rabbit have a great name. They play a lovely blend of folk with chamber leanings and an occasional twisted, slightly psych-pop edge. They are currently out on tour in support of Cotton Jones and following two EPs last year, have a debut album Beauregard via Kanine Records due imminently. We’re loving the taster track Older Brother for its giddy exuberance, warm chorus and mix of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Pepper Rabbit

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Introducing…Thee Sgt. Major III

Thee Sgt. Major III’s first full-length, The Idea Factory, contains the wit, optimism and feisty schoolboy angst that Kurt Bloch articulated in his songwriting for seminal punk band The Fastbacks and the sparky guitar chug that beloved The Fastbacks to so many. Expert musicianship and high-cool grace are tempered by scrappy garage punk leanings, jazz longings, and a winking kind of macabre, not at all serious, … Continue reading Introducing…Thee Sgt. Major III

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Check out Shuffler FM

We’re very impressed with Shuffler FM, the new music blog internet radio that plays randomly selected tracks from different blogs based on your preferences of genre. Then if you like the song you can download it from the blog before moving on to the next track and the next blog. It is brilliantly simple, no registrations or log-ins, and is a great way to discover … Continue reading Check out Shuffler FM

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New from Abe Vigoda

Abe Vigoda’s new album Crush is due out in September on Bella Union. Citing “cold wave and minimal stuff” as an inspiration, rather than the “tropical punk” they had been labelled with, they have already given us lead track, the repetitive and chilly, Throwing Shade as evidence of a new direction. Now, new taster To Tears also certainly lives up to the new direction. It has … Continue reading New from Abe Vigoda

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