New Videos: The Black Angels || Axxa/Abraxas || Rett Smith
Here are some brand spanking new videos to enjoy from the Black Angels, Axxa/Abraxas and Rett Smith. . . . . Continue reading New Videos: The Black Angels || Axxa/Abraxas || Rett Smith
Here are some brand spanking new videos to enjoy from the Black Angels, Axxa/Abraxas and Rett Smith. . . . . Continue reading New Videos: The Black Angels || Axxa/Abraxas || Rett Smith
As the perfect companion to our earlier all-things-psych related post, we now have a brand new track for you from undeniable psych-titans The Black Angels. Sunday Evening comes from the seven track collection Clear Lake Forest, which, having previously seen a limited release for this years Record Store Day, now gets a full release across all formats, due July 21st, via Blue Horizon (pre-order here). Have a … Continue reading The Black Angels Stream Sunday Evening
Brown Sabbath is the alter ego of Austin-based psych-funk collective Brownout who delve deep into reinterpreting the catalogue of metal godfathers, Black Sabbath. They remain true to the darkness, bombast and fuzz of Sabbath’s sound, while re-imagining the music with greasy Afro-Latin horns, hypnotic percussion and psyched-out, rare-groove improvisation. Their debut single Hand Of Doom, featuring The Black Angels’ Alex Maas on vocals, is set … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Brown Sabbath
Here is a first taste from the forthcoming Clear Lake Forest EP from The Black Angels. It features seven new songs and will be released on limited edition clear vinyl on Record Store Day (19th April). Diamond Eyes is an hypnotic, insistent, peyote-fuelled crawl through a parched sonic landscape – the simple fact is these boys do this stuff better than just about everybody else … Continue reading The Black Angels – Diamond Eyes
And to complete our Best of Year postings, we have our favourite ten albums from 2013. Every single one is superb… 10 Black Angels – Indigo Meadow . 9 Wooden Wand – Blood Oaths Of The New Blues . 8 Vandaveer – Oh, Willie, Please . 7 Jus Post Bellum – Oh, July . 6 Wooden Shjips – Back To Land . 5 T. Hardy … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums Of 2013 (Part 3: 10-1)
As well as our Top 100 tunes of the year that we’ve posted over the past few days, each of the MM contributors have put together their own lists. The fifth and final instalment is our own. 20. Colleen Green – Heavy Shit Totally infectious, stoned punk. . 19. Harmed Brothers – Love Song For The Assumed Mixing folk and bluegrass with a wistful twist … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Top Songs Of 2013
It is that time of year again. The votes have been polled from our MM contributors, the results collated and without further ado, here are Mad Mackerel’s favourite hundred tracks of 2013. Today, we’re counting down the first twenty five, from 100-76. 100 Woody Pines – Hobo And His Bride Classic, ramblin’ country blues, where songs are filled with characters fighting to climb up or … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Top Tracks of 2013: 100 – 76
Here is our traditional free Halloween Mix for 2013 – twenty five great tunes and the fourth year we’ve provided a soundtrack for one of the best nights of the year. Download a perfect mix of ghouls, ghosts, spooks, and all manner of assorted monsters…from all genres and the past 40 years. No trick, all treat! Download Gene Vincent – Race With The Devil mp3 … Continue reading Free Halloween Mix 2013
We are hugely impatient for the release of Indigo Meadow, the new album from The Black Angels due on the 2nd April. The band have now offered up a second song from the record, Evil Things focuses on a man and a woman on opposite sides of a conflict who meet on a war-torn battlefield. This one pushes at the furthermost boundaries of the bands sonic cannon, … Continue reading New Song From The Black Angels
The mighty Black Angels return with a new album Indigo Meadow released in the UK on April 1st. Their fourth long-player, it follows 2010’s excellent Phosphene Dream. Indigo Meadow promises more, bigger riffs, ominous organ grooves, and their trademark psych-drone. We can’t wait… They have what they describe as a “provocative” new track available for streaming – this is Don’t Play With Guns. Singer, Alex Maas, … Continue reading Black Angels New Album Taster