Oh look, it’s Friday again. Down here in Ventnor, we’ve had lashings of rain and a fair bit of wind. Not a lot of sunshine, but I did warn you about August last week … In fact, so much rain, the dog tried to do an about turn and I was unable to open my eyes for a short time on our joyous Wednesday evening … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
Earlier this month we posted about the forthcoming Efren EP Always Been A Bleeder. The EP has now had its official release a few days ago, and the band have made a second track available for free download. Following hard on the heels of the excellent Stay High comes Check It Down, and it is another fine example of their shimmering, invigorating folk with psych overtones. Well … Continue reading Efren Release Always Been A Bleeder
The Open House Festival takes place in Belfast from September 6th to the 12th. To mark the event, the organisers are giving away a free 14 track digital mix that includes the likes of Modest Mouse, The Felice Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show. A couple of our favourites from the mix are below, and to find out more about the event and download the … Continue reading Free Mix from Open House Festival
All Tiny Creatures is the side project of Thomas Wincek, who is also in Collections of Colonies of Bees, which is the band that collaborated with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver fame to form Volcano Choir. Confused? Don’t be. All you need to know is All Tiny Creatures have released a track from their forthcoming album, Harbors, which again features Justin Vernon, and is titled An … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…All Tiny Creatures
We Are Trees hail from Virginia Beach, and are offering up this four track EP titled Boyfriend from their Bandcamp site for free. Just click here. We suggest you make the minimal effort required to grab a copy as it is lovely lush, folk-pop that vocally has drawn lots of favourable comparisons with Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear as well as Bon Iver. The four … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…We Are Trees
Rooftop Vigilantes are playing this year’s Scion Garage Fest, taking place in their hometown of Lawrence, KS on October 2. The Oblivians, The Gories, The Raveonettes, The Greenhornes, The Ponys and King Khan & The Shrines, Cloud Nothings, Best Coast and Thee Oh Sees are amongst the excellent headliners of the free festival, being held at a handful of Lawrence venues. The entire festival is … Continue reading Introducing…Rooftop Vigilantes
Hot on the heels of the sleazy, grimy punk blues of the Jim Jones Revue which we posted a couple of days ago comes the er well, sleazy, grimy punk blues of The Ex-Girlfriends Club. Although these Portland, Oregon boys have a touch more glam rock about them than our UK version. We posted something from these guys last year which went down well on … Continue reading New single from Ex-Girlfriends Club
We have to confess that we were hitherto unaware of Baby Eagle, the ‘other’ band of Steve Lambke and given our lack of knowledge of The Constantines catalogue, we didn’t have hugely high expectations. All the better then to discover that Day Of Our Departing the advance track from new album Dog Weather (which was released yesterday on You’ve Changed Records) is a beauty with echoes … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Baby Eagle
We were big admirers of the first Duke & The King album, 2009’s Nothing Gold Can Stay, a lovely mix of melancholy, country tinged folk songs from Simone Felice and partners. Following the critical acclaim that greeted the debut album, the band are back with the September 20th release of their new single Shaky on Loose Music / Silva Oak. Shaky previews the band’s second album … Continue reading New single from The Duke & The King
We became aware of Haunted Windchimes via an eMusic recommendation and having some credits to use, duly downloaded the album Honey Moonshine as much for the great name and great artwork as anything else. And, boy are we glad we did. It is a wonderful album of authentic, bewitching folk that draws you in and holds you tight. Beautiful harmonies and the traditional topics of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Haunted Windchimes
