Guest Post: Big Sair’s TFI Friday (5th October)

Mrs Mackerel has decided to take a short sabbatical and invite some friends, relatives and countrywomen to takeover her Friday night post, a Friday routine as regular in this household as a G&T with lime, or pizza Margherita for the sprats. For week three, we hand over the reins to Big Sair… And with a flourish of my long fishtail, I take the baton for … Continue reading Guest Post: Big Sair’s TFI Friday (5th October)

Angel Snow Releases Self Titled Album

The long awaited full length self-titled release from Angel Snow is now available to fans. The record has evolved into a pristine blend of her hopeful, sorrowful, and sincere music and songwriting. Combine this honesty with sweeping folk melodies and intricate guitar riffs, and the result is the captivating landscape of sound found on her previous album Fortune Tellers. Her haunting, chilling vocals paired with melancholy lyrics … Continue reading Angel Snow Releases Self Titled Album

Streaming Round Up: New Releases

Here are a stack more of cracking new releases that you need to hear! Marching Church is another new project from Iceage’s Elias Bender Rønnenfelt – this time the music is nothing short of spectral – glacial goth anyone? a Flock of Dimes is the solo project of Wye Oaks Jenn Wasner, (This Is Why) I Can’t Wear White is the new single and pretty good it … Continue reading Streaming Round Up: New Releases

Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: September 2012

  Here we are again – a massive free mix containing the cream of last month’s posts, a couple of new tunes and, all in all, an eclectic set of top quality tunes to kick off the onset of autumn for you. From folk to garage, from country to psychedelia and from originals to covers, there is a multifaceted, multifarious, heterogeneous, assorted miscellaney of delights for … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: September 2012

MM Shorts 233: More From Dolfish

Eccentric, off-kilter folk troubadour Dolfish has made another track available from his first proper LP I’d Rather Disappear Than Stay The Same. More of his unique world view comes to the fore in Grown Ups, and his label Afternoon Records has announced that the digital release of the record will be “pay what you want” and the vinyl preorder is up now at the Afternoon Records … Continue reading MM Shorts 233: More From Dolfish