With probably the longest entry of 2011 we give the floor to regular MM contributor and top ten compiler…Dr Roddy. Well it seems to be that time of year again. I always spend 340 days looking forward to doing this and 25 agonising over it. This year especially though, as I think there has been a bumper harvest of great songs. When I looked at … Continue reading MM’s 2011 Top Ten Series: No 4 Dr Roddy
MAD MACKEREL’S TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS For our first ever Festive Feature on Mad Mackerel, we asked twelve of our favourite bands and artists of 2011 to answer twelve questions and we will publish them over the next twelve days taking us up to Christmas Eve. Since starting Mad Mackerel it would probably be true to say that James Jackson Toth aka Wooden Wand has … Continue reading (FESTIVE FEATURE) THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS No 7: WOODEN WAND
Our third top ten contributions come from Starbar and JaMS who job share in the office. This is JaMS first entry in to the guest top ten spots, but first up is Starbie… 10. Laura Marling – I Was Just A Card 9. Slow Club – If we’re Still Alive a 8. The Decemberists – This Is Why we Fight 7. Lana Del Ray – … Continue reading MM’s 2011 Top Ten Series: No 3 Starbar & JaMS
MAD MACKEREL’S TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS For our first ever Festive Feature on Mad Mackerel, we asked twelve of our favourite bands and artists of 2011 to answer twelve questions and we will publish them over the next twelve days taking us up to Christmas Eve. With the release this year of Balls Deep In Babylon, Ohioan delivered a dark, intense atmospheric album that drew on … Continue reading (FESTIVE FEATURE) THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS No 6: OHIOAN
For the second of our ‘guest’ top ten posts we are pleased to welcome the finger-choppin’ Banner to the roster with his first contribution to the end of year best of lists. “It’s been a great year musically and especially as this year I became a dad. I’d like to thank Doctor Roddy and Chris T Popper for their steady supply of CDs this year … Continue reading MM’s 2011 Top Ten Series: No 2 Banner
Scott H. Biram and Lydia Loveless are touring together in early 2012. The aptly titled Bad Machine Tour follows the release of outstanding new albums in Biram’s Bad Ingredients and Loveless’ Indestructible Machine and brings together the two Bloodshot Records label mates. The tour begins in Dallas, TX on January 26 and circles around the Southeastern US before looping back to Houston, Texas (venue to … Continue reading Bad Machine Tour
MAD MACKEREL’S TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS For our first ever Festive Feature on Mad Mackerel, we asked twelve of our favourite bands and artists of 2011 to answer twelve questions and we will publish them over the next twelve days taking us up to Christmas Eve. Lonesome Wyatt & The Holy Spooks latest offering Heartsick is described as “twelve mournful offerings of loneliness, sorrow and … Continue reading (FESTIVE FEATURE) THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS No 5: LONESOME WYATT & THE HOLY SPOOKS
For our first ever Festive Feature on Mad Mackerel, we asked twelve of our favourite bands and artists of 2011 to answer twelve questions and we will publish them over the next twelve days taking us up to Christmas Eve. The back story behind Alynda Lee Sagarra the creative force behind Hurray for the Riff Raff is one of running away from home at 17, … Continue reading (FESTIVE FEATURE) THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS No 4. HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF
Uncompromising and heavy defines the authentic blues influenced pysch-rock of Howlin Rain, and they describe the making of their third album The Russian Wilds as “trying to blend Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Steely Dan’s Gaucho and Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge of Town“. First taste of the album (out on Valentines Day 2012 via American Recordings) comes in the form of Phantom In The Valley. … Continue reading MM Shorts 58: Howlin’ Rain
We have posted about Ryne Warner’s band Ohioan a couple of times in the lifetime of Mad Mackerel and so it was good news indeed to receive an e-mail from him with news of an album provocatively titled Balls Deep In Babylon. Having listened to it a few times, it is one of those records that slowly but surely grips you and then begins to … Continue reading Ohioan – Balls Deep In Babylon
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