Despite the end of the year fast approaching, thankfully the quality of new music shows no signs of slowing. Here are the best of our November offerings, together with some tasty new tracks to round off the mix.Over thirty great songs – just right for the roaring fire and the cocoa! Download Siskiyou – Twigs And Stones mp3 (from Keep Away The Dead) Brilliantly judged … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: November 2011
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
We missed these. They are all excellent and we missed them. So just in case, (like us) you are late coming to them, then you’re in for a real treat – from the unwavering desolation of Josh T Pearson to the gung-ho garage riffs of Jeff The Brotherhood, all of these should (if we’d been doing our job properly) have been up on MM long … Continue reading OK…We Confess. We Missed These!
Two of the better (in our opinion) most-hyped-bands-of-2010 have just released new tracks. Husband and wife duo Tennis play a winsome style of indie pop that is very of the moment. Take Me Somewhere comes from their planned debut Cape Dory, due for release in early 2011. Visit their MySpace here. Download Tennis – Take Me Somewhere mp3 (from Cape Dory) Likewise Cloud Nothings self … Continue reading New from Tennis & Cloud Nothings
At the beginning of this month we posted the excellent b-side to the new single from The Cloud Nothings. The single Didn’t You is out today on Old Flame and now you can get that too with a simple click of your mouse below. It’s a cleaner sound, but still packed full of hooks and shot through with that punk arrogance that we like so … Continue reading Cloud Nothings New Single
Looks like we’re on a major lo-fi, garage roll this Friday. We’re mighty glad those downloads are fixed! Hopefully, you’ve already picked up the excellent tracks from The Burnt Ones and The Jacuzzi Boys from earlier, and now we have for your aural delight the b-side to the forthcoming Cloud Nothings single Didn’t You. Titled Even If It Worked Out, it is brash, snotty, and … Continue reading Even more lo-fi garage psych-goodness
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