Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2016 with Chris T Popper’s first recommendation of the year for you. The excellently named Meatraffle are new to us, but on the evidence of Nice Young Couple, a brilliantly lo-fi, ramshackle tale of drug dealing in the local community, we will be checking out their debut album Hi Fi Classics immediately. Watch the video for it here. Continue reading New Video: Meatraffle – Nice Young Couple
It has been more than a year since we featured Soft Fangs, and now the Brooklyn-via Boston singer/songwriter will release his new album The Light on February 19th via Exploding In Sound and Disposable America Records. The first single is The Air, a perfect mixture of the fragile and the muscular as a haunting melody and introspective, poetic vocals collide and combine with crashing drums and … Continue reading MM Shorts 807: Soft Fangs
Raised The Bar comes from Chris Storrow’s upcoming album, The Ocean’s Door, which is set to be released on 5th February. It’s a vibrant and warm slice of indie-pop that’s heavily influenced by the 60s AM Gold era of music with its elegant sound and tasteful use of organ and horns. Listen below. Continue reading MM Shorts 806: Chris Storrow
“Very basic music – loud, fast, city, raucous, arrogant, paranoid, speed-freak rock n roll. It will be so loud that if we move in next door to you, your lawn will die”. Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister || 1945 -2015 || Born to lose, lived to win. Continue reading RiP: Lemmy
Swedish post punk, new wave band The Litsos recently released their first single Vultures from their upcoming long player. The track revolves around the feeling of desperately wanting to create while you are constantly being told to just produce. It is about any business that turns regular people’s blood, sweat and tears into money, without even a sign of gratitude. With the haunting voice of … Continue reading MM Shorts 805: The Litsos
The Halfways are a psychedelic rock quartet from Austin, Texas that employs elements of various musical styles to create a unique mixture. Think folk rock with funk, baroque pop and jazz, and even some grunge in there too. Have a listen to the spacey funk of Not All Are To Be Trusted, the first single taken from their forthcoming debut EP. Continue reading MM Shorts 804: The Halfways
In recognition of the season of giving, Blitzen Trapper have shared a song off their debut self-titled release, Christmas Is Coming Soon, as a pay-what-you-wish download. All proceeds will go directly to Mercy Corps, who’s mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping to build secure, productive and just communities in some of the toughest places in the world. Frontman Eric Earley, “This is … Continue reading Festive Fayre (24): Blitzen Trapper
Having proved themselves to be one of our bands of the year in our Best Of lists, it seems entirely appropriate that today’s Festive Fayre offering comes from Quiet Hollers. They have shared their cover of Nightmare River Band’s Christmas tune, First Christmas. All proceeds from the sale and publishing of the song (so please do buy it) will go to St. Jude’s Children’s Research … Continue reading Festive Fayre (23): Quiet Hollers
Watch Elephant Stone’s new video from their cover of The Beatles Christmas Time (Is Here Again) from 2013’s Psych-Out Christmas compilation. Continue reading Festive Fayre (22): Elephant Stone
And so here is the final personal Top Twenty of the year. This time it is my turn! Another twelve months neatly wrapped up and delivered for your listening pleasure and here’s to 2016… 20. Quiet Hollers – Mont Blanc An apocalyptic, “end-is-nigh” rolling, country rock anthem. Pure poetry with the best coda to a song I heard all year, “shed a tear for the books … Continue reading MM’S BEST OF THE YEAR: MAD MACKEREL’S TOP TWENTY SONGS
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