Some musical films and lyric videos. They’re good. Offa My Hands is the third song unveiled from Jessica Lea Mayfield’s anticipated new album, Sorry Is Gone. Phoebe Bridgers has shared Funeral, another haunting and introspective track from her upcoming debut album Stranger In The Alps. Norwegian chanteuse Ane Brun’s new record consists of fourteen covers of tracks by Radiohead, Joni Mitchell, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan … Continue reading New Videos Round Up
Ten new songs for you collected from the week’s new releases. Lots to discover including two stunning covers by The Tallest Man On Earth and Marie Danielle, snotty punk done to perfection by Amyl & The Sniffers, tracks from Americana heavyweights Deer Tick and Blitzen Trapper and classic country from Margo Price. Plenty more besides… enjoy. The Tallest Man On Earth – Both Sides Now … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Brooklyn post-punk duo NØMADS have released their August single Phasmophøbia (the fear of ghosts or the paranormal). The band is in the midst of their conceptual Phøbiac project, wherein they release a new song about clinical phobia-based fears. The project is going to be split into two EP’s, Phøbiac Part 1, which’ll be out in October, with Part 2 to follow in early 2018. Featuring swirling, … Continue reading NØMADS – Phasmophøbia
Soft Fangs is the musical project of Brooklyn-based songwriter, John Lutkevich. We’ve featured him a couple of times, but never with a tune as good as this one. Honey Colony drips around the ears in a completely beguiling and seductive manner, melding the story of a bee with that of a workaholic. It is taken from forthcoming album Fractures (out on the 1st September). Influences like … Continue reading Soft Fangs – Honey Colony
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts – Soul & Cigarette Protomartyr – My Children Wilco – All Lives, You Say? Alvvays – Plimsoll Punks Quilt – Black Night Woman (F.J. McMahon cover) Duds – Elastic Feel Spray Paint – Cussin’ (Live at Third Man Records) Silver Torches – If I Reach Reptaliens – If You Want Hope Sandoval & The Warm Intentions – Sleep Julien Baker … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
War Is Coming (If You Want It) is a new track from Car Seat Headrest. A different version was previously available briefly in demo form for one day on Bandcamp with all proceeds going to the Transgender Law Center. The proceeds from this version via Bandcamp sales will also go the same cause. As Will Toledo says, it is a song about not murdering people… amen … Continue reading New From Car Seat Headrest
Technical issues have meant we’ve been quieter than usual this week, but hopefully with all those resolved we can get back to normal service. It is a shame as we spent the weekend with middle sprat wallowing ankle, and sometimes knee, deep in swampy mud at Truck Festival. Truck has been a bit of a Mackerel family institution for a few years now, a small(ish) … Continue reading Truck Festival 2017
We shared Void, the new single from Beaches, at the weekend in our regular round-up post and what a cracking tune it is – a sonic blast of motorik mayhem that we are loving. Now the Aussie quintet have shared an excellent new video for the song. Directed by Beaches’ own Ali McCann with help from filmmaker Joel Roche, it takes inspiration from Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 … Continue reading New Video: Beaches – Void
Ian Felice – Kingdom Of Dreams Torres – Three Futures Together PANGEA – Money On It Oh Sees – Animated Violence Prism Tats – Brainwaves A. Savage – Winter In The South Protomartyr – A Private Understanding Beaches – Void Sloan Peterson – Rats Speedy Ortiz – Screen Gem DIIV – Cow (Sparklehorse cover) Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
An appropriate companion piece to our earlier BAIT post, Meatraffle blast out a rallying cry to the proletariat to throw off the chains of mediocre, mass produced music and get down to their sweet and chaotic sonic waves. Throwing out land shanties of burning bankers, friendly local drug dealers, enduring friendship and the Russian Revolution: psychedelic, socialist, utopian, death ragga, erroneous funk, trapdoor jazz, bastard … Continue reading More From Meatraffle
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