The Mad Mackarel is a music blog from Oxford, UK. They write about Americana, Country, Folk, Garage, Indie and Psychedelia. An ecclectic mix The Plastic Pals feel real at home with.

Many thanks to Mad Mackarel for featuring us on this blog and selecting The Plastic Pals for the Best of the Month list.

If you haven´t heard our single Leave it ´til tomorrow yet, or if you wanna hear it again – here´s a direct link to the tune for ya: Leave it ´til tomorrow on soundcloud.com

Stay bruised, stay beautiful…

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Saturday last weekend,March 24th Hawk visited New York for the first time. And friends from legendary CBGB´s and Max´s Kansas City combo Band of Outsiders had set up a gig at The Lakeside Lounge in Greenwich Village for a triplet guitar party.

Hawk had prepared almost two handfuls of Outsiders tunes and the Outsiders three tunes of Hawk´s. In the above Youtube videoclip – captured by the one and only Groovy DJ Linda Rizzo – you can see one Outsiders tune (Another Cowboy) and one Plastic Pals tune (Long and Lonely).

One thing´s for sure. This won´t be the last Plastic Pals visit to Gotham.

Thanks to guitarist James McCarthy and guitarist Marc Jeffrey Mikulich for arranging this show – and to Linda Rizzo for the video.

This Wednesday, April 4th, The Plastic Pals will release the first single from upcoming album April 4th – via all major digital music services. “Leave It ´Til Tomorrow” – available now for preview and pre-order via 7-digital – is heroin disco in the spirit of Velvet Underground and Bowie, according to pr company Birds will sing for you – that The Plastic Pals have partnered with for this release.

The tune is taken from upcoming new album – slated for release later this year – produced by Chris Cacavas from legendary Los Angeles desert rock band Green on Red. Cacavas also plays electric piano and a funky clavinet on this song, adding to the groove and to Hawk´s falsetto chanting.

So go and grab yours at 7digital.

Stay tuned, folks!

It´s a right honour for us Plastic Pals to welcome the man who´s basically played with everybody worth mentioning: Green on Red, The Dream Syndicate, Danny & Dusty, Giant Sand, Calexico, the list goes on… Chris Cacavas comes to Stockholm for the first time since the 80´s for an exclusive show with The Plastic Pals at Skål (near Hornstull) Saturday January 21 at 7 pm.

The show is divided in two parts. First Chris Cacavas, who has produced The Pals soon to be released album, will play keyboards with The Plastic Pals. After that Cacavas will play his exquisite solo material, backed by The Plastic Pals.

We are totally convinced this will be a fine fine evening and hope you can make it.

Find your way to the venue Skål here.

Not convinced yet? Listen to Chris Cacavas on Spotify or on Youtube.

Buy your tickets here.

Most welcome!

Btw… as a little curiosity, here´s a behind the scenes video clip from Studio White Lodge in Ludwigsburg, Germany November 2010. Plastic Pals choir boys Anders Sahlin and Bengt Alm trying out harmonies for a tune called “Miracles” and Cacavas stepping in giving instructions for an idea for the backing vocal part:

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Right people! Saturday December 17th The Plastic Pals will arrange a Christmas party at Walla Scen in Årsta, Stockholm. We´re sharing this night with our longtime pals Lars-Fredrix. Should be a good opportunity to kick in the upcoming Festive Season.

All of you´s who are in town are most welcome. Party start at 7 pm. Check picture for details. Really hoping to see you there, folks!

Hope you´ll enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it:

All the way by theplasticpals

One of the standout cuts is ”the superb, quitely brooding – and slightly Blue Öyster Cultish roots-rock of Miracles´ from Sweden´s own Plastic Pals.” That´s the verdict from UK´s best selling eclectic music magazine R2 – Rock `n´Reel – on Music From Home´s compilation ”Hymns from Home”, where The Plastic Pals´new tune ”Miracles” is included.

And there´s good company on this compilation. Other standout cuts, according to reviewer Gerry Ranson are Kate Campbell´s ”Free World”, ”… the almost experimental jazz…” of JD Souther´s ”On The Day Nobody Likes You” and Elliott Murphy´s ”The Eternal Highway”.

Cudos to Gerry Ranson and R2 Magazine for this.

Check out R2 Magazine http://www.rock-n-reel.co.uk

Buy or stream ”Miracles” on one of the following outlets:
Spotify
Itunes
Amazon
Platekompaniet
Hemifrån/Music From Home

“We barely haven´t started yet…”, Chuck Prophet sings kinda laconically in his breathtakingly beautiful tune “Age of miracles”. And it seems The Age of Miracles is on its way. Our new album is not released yet, but one of the tunes, called Miracles, is already getting airplay in Germany, Holland and Belgium. It´s included on the third compilation – Hymns from Home – from dedicated music pr guy Peter Holmstedt´s Music from Home, along with awesome bands and artists like Jack Tempchin, I See Hawks In LA, Keith Miles, Jude Johnstone and Elliott Murphy.

Miracles was on the playlist 17 September (with Nick Lowe and The Waterboys, among others) on DJ Radiogirl´s show on the Dutch alt-country webpage with news, reviews and radio Insurgent Country http://www.insurgentcountry.net . The song is also on the playlist for August and September from dj Martin on the German station NBT (Next Big Thing) – an fine and ecclectic mix ”from alt country to Brit pop, from experimental to bubblegum, to songwriting art from soul to jazz to hard rock…”: http://nbtmusicradio.playtheradio.com. Further, Eric Van de Mert has added Miracles to the playlist on his fine Belgian country rock station Nashville Rockhttp://countrymuziek.eu

We hereby would like to express our deepest thanks to all three of these dj:s for playing and thus supporting The Plastic Pals! And for other dj:s, bloggers, reviewers, promoters, as well as music aficionados, friends and fans out there, here´s a link to the song itself – Miracles: http://www.hemifran.com/hymns_12.html

Miracles is one of thirteen songs from our new upoming album – due for release 2012. A set of songs recorded October–November+March 2010–2011 at The White Lodge in Ludwigsburg, Germany with the one and only Mr Chris Cacavas producing with stellar sound demon Rainer Lolk as engineer. Recording sessions that clearly stand out as the best experience ever for the four of us in The Plastic Pals when it comes to making and creating music.

Chris Cacavas is a genious! And he means the world to The Plastic Pals. Cacavas totally breathes, eats, drinks, walks and talks music – that´s M-U-S-I-C. And he makes you totally relaxed and comfortable. He´s got such sharp senses (at least seven or eight, I reckon), and he´s all about helping the band getting great performances and great sounds. Together with his partner in crime, awesome sound engineer Rainer Lolk, he´s got a perfect set of weapons to accomplish that. Cacavas has injected in The Plastic Pals a true sense, taste and smell of rock americana that was laying there raw on the cutting board, ready to bring to the boil.

For anyone who´s serious about their music and recordings, The Plastic Pals truly recommend Cacavas and Lolk. Thank you guys! Genau!

Here´s a video clip from the recording sessions at The White Lodge that gives a great view of how Chris Cacavas works in the studio. The Plastic Pals are rehearsing background vocals for Miracles and Cacavas stepping into the room, listens and suggest a few changes and turns a good idea into a brilliant performance:

We also would like to send out a big thank you to Peter Holmstedt who with his music pr company Music From Home is the man behind this compilation That Thing That’s a Whole Lot Bigger Than This – Hymns From Home. With a huge passion for music, a great ear and a music sensibility plus a big most valuable network of contacts Peter Holmstedt is such an important ingredient in the recipie for our Plastic Pals crusade. Peter Holmstedt Music From Home – that´s our guy!

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