Billie Marten has unveiled a hauntingly beautiful cover of Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson’s Winter Song – another track from Daisy Digital’s Christmas charity compilation It’s Coming On Christmas (available here). . Continue reading Festive Post No 13: Billie Marten
Here is the second instalment of our countdown of our favourite 100 tunes of the year. Enjoy and check back tomorrow for numbers 60 down to 41. 80 Greylag – Yours To Shake . 79 Ty Segall – Feel . 78 The War On Drugs – Under The Pressure . 77 Jessica Lea Mayfield – Party Drugs . 76 Tweak Bird – Greens . 75 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs Of 2014: 80 – 61
Denver singer songwriter Esmé Patterson has unveiled a new single – What Do You Call A Woman? – to be released on 2nd February through Xtra Mile Recordings. It is taken from her forthcoming album Woman to Woman – a brilliantly unique concept where she writes from the point of view of women immortalised in popular songs over the years. The single is a response to … Continue reading Esmé Patterson Answers Back…
Fresh from their recent tour, the wonderful Phil Odgers of The Men They Couldn’t Hang has recorded a cover version of a lost John Prine song entitled Christmas In Prison. Have a listen, and make a note that TMTCH will see out their 30th anniversary celebrations with a return visit to Shepherd’s Bush Empire in west London on 4th April next year. . Continue reading Festive Post No 12: Phil Odgers
Today the countdown begins of Mad Mackerel’s favourite 100 songs of 2014. From Monday to Friday check back to see what tickled the earbuds of MM’s contributors, followed by our Albums of the Year at the weekend and then our individual contributors’ choices. So without further ado…. 100 Micah P Hinson – The Same Old Shit . 99 Wooden Wand – Dambuilding . 98 Juan … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs Of 2014: 100 – 81
Roses & Revolutions’ new Christmas single, It’s Christmas Time is a lovely piano led slice of festive cheer – sweet without being saccharine – and skilfully avoiding the usual cheesy pitfalls that abound at this time of year. Have a listen. . Continue reading Festive Post No 11: Roses & Revolutions
Ancestor by Stone Jack Jones was one of our favourite new discoveries of the year, a beautifully poignant tribute to his father. The follow-up Love & Torture will be released next March. The album is a sonic dialog, at times experimental, that pulses with all of the grace and bliss that has touched Jack’s incredible life – he has been given the last rites on the … Continue reading New Album From Stone Jack Jones
Maps – aka James Chapman – has collaborated with Mute label-mate Polly Scattergood to create a shimmering and melancholic cover of In The Bleak Midwinter. Watch the suitably evocative, monochrome video and download for free below. . . Continue reading Festive Post No 10: Maps Featuring Polly Scattergood
The Dune Rats expose the cartoon-like existence of their day to day lives and take you on a lolloping, hairy ride through open spaces and cities on a quest to find and perhaps locate, their spiritual mecca. Their hazy soul-searching journey powered by marijuana, fed by bananas and reaffirmed by the Dalai Lama. Of all the songs we have seen performed live this year, this track … Continue reading New Video: The Dune Rats – Dalai Lama, Big Banana, Marijuana
For the penultimate time this year, here is our weekly round up of songs that you really should have wrapped your ears around by now. 1. Male Bonding – A Kick To The Face 2. Girlpool – Alone At The Show 3. Of Montreal – Bassem Sabry 4. Lady Lamb The Beekeeper – Billions Of Eyes 5. Dirty Dishes – Red Roulette 6. Gorgeous Bully – … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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