As some may know MM is not a massive fan of remixes as a general rule of thumb. In truth, it is rare for us to listen to them and rarer still to actually post them. We’re a little more well disposed to covers, though again they are not usually something we post that often. So with that said, this is a post that naturally … Continue reading Remixes & Covers: all thanks to the Wooden Shjips
Hearts And Daggers released their debut album And Then There Was Dust earlier this year, but we have only recently picked up a couple of tracks from it via There’s Always Someone Cooler Than You. Now we are aware of it, we shall be making an effort to discover a lot more. Of the tracks we have for you, Convict Blues fair drips dust, sweat, … Continue reading Introducing…Hearts And Daggers
Having just posted about the forthcoming Delta Spirit album, we received an e-mail (nominally from the rather attractively named Mortimer The Goose) introducing Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, and mentioning they will soon be out touring in support of Delta Spirit. Like Quasimodo, the band’s name rang a bell and a check through our iTunes revealed just a single track from 2008 called We Should … Continue reading Introducing…Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Apparently No One’s Fucking To The Radio according to Chicago’s deranged retro-rockers The Streets On Fire. This is the taster from their forthcoming (and first full-length) album This Is Fancy due out in July. While it reminds us of everything from Iggy to Gang of Four by way of The Kills, it has enough identity and confidence to stand on its own two feet, and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…The Streets On Fire
Texan singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo releases his tenth solo album Street Songs Of Love in June via the Concord Music Group. Mostly written in collaboration with ex Green On Red man Chuck Prophet, the album has garnered fine advance reviews and we’re looking forward to getting our hands on a copy as soon as we can. ‘Til then, like us, you’ll just have to make do … Continue reading New from Alejandro Escovedo
Lissie’s duet with Ellie Goulding at this month’s Great Escape festival is now causing some waves over on YouTube. The pair performed Everywhere I Go, one of the stand-out tracks from Lissie’s forthcoming debut album Catching A Tiger. Watch it below. Pre-order Catching A Tiger from Amazon here. Continue reading Lissie & Ellie Goulding Duet @ The Great Escape
Delta Spirit’s new album, History From Below, is due out on June 14th here in the UK and is the long awaited follow-up to 2008’s Ode To Sunshine, which contained the outstanding Trashcan, possibly our favourite song of that year. The advance track Bushwick Blues is another anthemic stomper that brilliantly showcases their country rock roots and ear for a tasty lyric. Count down the … Continue reading New from Delta Spirit
MM faves, Woodpigeon recently joined Baeblemusic in their apartment to perform three beautiful acoustic tracks. You can watch it by clicking here. Buy Die Stadt Muzikanten from End of The Road here. Download Woodpigeon – Empty-Hall-Sing-Along mp3 (from Die Stadt Muzikanten) Continue reading Woodpigeon at Baeblemusic’s Guest Apartment
Wild Nothing is to all intents and purposes Jack Tatum. He mines a rich seam stretching from Cure-like synths to the catchy ultra-hip rhythms of The Drums. His debut album Gemini is imminent and is bursting at the seams with blissed out pop and classic indie melodies – just check out this advance taster called Chinatown – it is about as summery as you can get … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Wild Nothing
Last Friday, prompted by my song selections, I put a musical question to MM that he was unable to answer for once. Namely, if you were a band which band would you be? I – rather fancifully I think – decided that I would be DeVotchKa. Go on, you know you want to … Anyway, seeing as we’ve been married a whole fifteen years (I … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
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