Los Angeles-based group The Tulips have shared the second single off of their forthcoming LP, Echo Blue. Winter Winds is a gorgeous slice of pastoral psych-folk that counterbalances the sweet vocal harmonies with just the right amount of wooziness to wrap you in a hazy, slightly ethereal musical cocoon. Lovely stuff. . Continue reading MM Shorts 641: The Tulips
With his upcoming full-length record Windfall, to be released on the 10th March, Joe Pug has shared the debut single from the album. If Still It Can’t Be Found, which features Pat Sansone from Wilco on mellotron, is a yearning, sweetly strummed ballad that perhaps captures some of the hard times and question marks over his future as he struggled with writers block and, as he says, “fell out … Continue reading New Track From Joe Pug
Frontier Ruckus’ new video for their track Bathroom Stall Hypnosis is a disturbing Christmastime video featuring a young girl’s sugar-fueled, hallucinogenic, and trippy Christmas Eve, which ends in horror. Enjoy! . . Continue reading New Video: Frontier Ruckus – Bathroom Stall Hypnosis
And so we bring our round up of favourite songs, albums, covers, and guilty pleasures to a close with the final “best of” post, Mad Mackerel’s own top twenty. 20 Kye Alfred Hillig – My Young Love Was As Blind As Ray Charles And Half As Cold As Heat . 19 Parquet Courts – Black And White . 18 Jamie T – The Prophet . 17 … Continue reading Best of the Year: Mad Mackerel’s Top Twenty
Our penultimate offering comes in the shape of Mrs Mackerel’s favourite songs of 2014… …I think, being a fish of some advancing years now, I know what I like – but at least that ranges quite widely (she says, defiantly). As usual, though, I’m late to deadline, so without further pontification or procrastination, here are my favourite songs of 2014. 20. War On Drugs – … Continue reading Best of the Year: Mrs Mackerel’s Top Twenty
It might almost be Christmas Eve, but this was too good not to tell you about. Cat Meat have released a free EP of country music covers via Bandcamp including their takes on songs by George Jones, Waylon Jennings and Willis Alan Ramsey. Check out their version of If Drinking Don’t Kill Me below or simply click through to get the whole EP for nothing… … Continue reading Cat Meat’s Free Country Covers EP
20) Natural Child – Dancin’ With Wolves . 19) Hamilton Leithauser – 11 O’Clock Friday Night . 18) Faces On Film – Percy . 17) Early Winters – A Thing For You . 16) Sleaford Mods – Routine Dean . 15) Eels – Mistakes of My Youth . 14) Chimes – Total Sunflower . 13) Dust From A 1000 Yrs – Smoke Em Up . … Continue reading Best Of The Year – Chris T Popper’s Top Twenty
As always we round off our best of the year posts with the individual contributions starting with the newly manacled wed Dr Roddy and his personal top ten of 2014. …This year has seemed to fly by, I got married, we had a little boy and we are now in the middle of building works involving having our roof off in mid-winter. So it has been … Continue reading Best of the Year – Dr Roddy’s Top Ten
Here are our favourite twenty albums of 2014. Don’t forget to check out numbers 40 – 21 here. 20 Together PANGEA – Badillac . 19 Meatbodies – Meatbodies . 18 Strand of Oaks – Heal . 17 Jessica Lea Mayfield – Make My Head Sing . 16 Eagulls – Eagulls . 15 Happyness – Weird Little Birthday . 14 Felice Brothers – Favourite Waitress . … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums of 2014: Part 2
Here is a festive offering from The Honey Ants, and their version of In The Bleak Midwinter. . . Continue reading Festive Post No 17: The Honey Ants
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