Here is a second track from Portland folk-rockers the Builders & The Butchers upcoming long player The Spark. Singer Ryan Sollee describes it as “…a pretty simple call and response folk tune about desperation. On its face its a old story song, but a lot of the themes can be related to today. The inspiration for this came from my Leadbelly library of congress recordings” … Continue reading Another From The Builders & The Butchers
Happy days! After too many years of silence, Portland, Oregon folk-rockers The Builders and the Butchers are back with a new record, Spark. Name checking influences for the new album as later Tom Waits and White Blood Cells era White Stripes, they’ve shared Older Than Sin, a singalong rush of rumbling guitars and anthemic vocals. Listen below and check out that album art too – always fabulous. Continue reading The Builders And The Butchers Announce New Album
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
Better late than never, here is our monthly round-up of the best of our April downloads together with a handful of brand new tracks. More than twenty songs especially prepared for you to put together an eclectic and appealing mix to impress all your friends and bore your boring work colleagues. Enjoy! Wild Wild Wets – Criminal Blue Tripped out, freaked out, psych pop. . Hey … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best of the Month: April 2013
Boasting some of the best album sleeves around, together with a fantastic brand of rollicking, dark-hearted folk, The Builders And The Butchers have been longstanding staples of MM playlists for a number of years. They now have a new album, Western Medicine, in the pipeline that draws its inspiration from the post-apocalyptic stories of Cormac McCarthy no less. The first taste is Dirt In The … Continue reading Return Of The Builders & The Butchers
Following on from our mixes from 2010 and 2011, here is another set of freakishly macabre tunes for you to download and scare off the trick or treaters… Download Little Wings – Halloween 2020 mp3 (from PIAPTK Sampler Fall 2011) Download Deer Tick – The Ghost mp3 (from Daytrotter Session) Download Royal Trux – The Spectre mp3 (from Cats And Dogs) Download The Low Anthem – … Continue reading Free Halloween Mix 2012
Another bonanza month. Another round up of the very best tracks we posted in March. Another selection of new tunes to get your teeth into too. So without further ado… Download White Denim – Drug mp3 (from D) First taste of rockers new album. Bodes well. Very well. Download The Everymen – Ballad Of Sarin mp3 (from Hello, Nice Evening. We Are The Everymen) Cocksure but not … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: March
Here is Rotten To The Core from the Builders & The Butchers latest excellent effort, Dead Reckoning. It is the song that is, to us here at MM at least, the rollicking, hollering centrepiece of the record. The song that calls to mind the blood and thunder preachers in dusty pulpits, the hellfires and the brimstone, and the intense fury of both the righteous and … Continue reading More from the Builders & The Butchers
Here is our regular round up of the best of January’s posts plus a couple of new tracks for your listening pleasure – all beautifully designed to make one perfect mixtape. Download Wooden Wand – The DNR Waltz mp3 More classic down-tempo folk from greatly underrated MM fave. Download Phosphorescent – Are You Ready For The Country? mp3 Riff-heavy, mean-assed cover which brilliantly captures the double-edged viciousness … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January
The Builders & The Butchers sealed their place in MM’s affections with the debauched, stomping folk rock sing-along of their 2009 album Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well. Their new release, Dead Reckoning, complete with more superb cover artwork, comes out on February 22nd via Badman Recording Company. It is no exaggeration to say that this (their third album) is one of our more/most hotly … Continue reading The Builders & The Butchers Return
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