75 Sleaford Mods – Moptop 74 Silver Torches – If I Reach 73 Idles – Divide And Conquer 72 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Rattlesnake 71 King Krule – Dum Surfer 70 Naomi Punk – Chapter II 69 The Reptaliens – If You Want 68 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – French Press 67 Ron Gallo … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Tracks Of The Year 75 – 51
100 Anna St. Louis – Fire 99 Deep State – No Idea Pt. II 98 Ron Gallo – Really Nice Guys 97 Wooden Wand – Aurora 96 Diet Cig – Sixteen 95 Prism Tats – The Liar 94 Julie & The Wrong Guys – Love And Leaving 93 Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile – Continental Breakfast 92 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Tracks of the Year 100 – 76
The Growlers have shared their cover of Mud’s 1974 festive no. 1, Lonely This Christmas, which was recorded durning their 2016 three night holiday run at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. It is deliberately performed in the style of Elvis Presley’s slower songs from his later career though, despite several incorrectly-labelled videos on YouTube, the band found out the King never recorded the song. Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No. 9: The Growlers
Brighton / London fuzzy four-piece Beach Riot share a mutual love for making a lot of pop fuelled noise – distorted haze compiled with big hooks and a distinctive raw energy that takes it’s influences from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Cable, Sleater-Kinney and Pavement, their sound is brash and untamed. New single She’s A Hurricane has a lot going for it. Have a … Continue reading MM Shorts 988: Beach Riot
First Aid Kit – Fireworks No Age – Drippy Alela Diane – Émigré’ Calexico – Voices In The Field Olden Yolk – Takes One To Know One Craig Finn – Fault Lines (Mountain Goats cover) Ty Segall – The Main Pretender The Orwells – Vanilla The Soft Moon – It Kills Graham Coxon – Falling Continue reading Ten (Count ’em) Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’re big Mind Spiders fans here at MM, and frankly they seem one of the most underrated bands out there. Evolving from lo-fi garage punk beginnings to a mix of post-punk and art-rock that recalls Devo, Talking Heads and Bowie, they consistently deliver with a raison d’être that is built around delivering music that is relentlessly aggressive, melodic and downright catchy. They have announced a … Continue reading Mind Spiders – Outside
Birmingham trio Table Scraps create black-hearted garage punk which fully embraces the good, the bad and the ugly of rock’n’roll’s twisted lineage and various mutations. They were in our 2015 best of lists and have announced their new album Autonomy and shared a brand new track from it, Sick Of Me. Of the song, Scott Vincent Abbott of the band has said “‘Sick of Me’ is about when … Continue reading New Single and Album From Table Scraps
Widowspeak – Harvest Moon (Neil Young cover) Wilco – Dynamite My Soul Kal Marks – Adventure The Staves & yMusic – The Way Is Read Ty Segall – My Lady’s On Fire Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night Johanna Warren – Here To Tell Angel Olsen – Sans Dama Scout – Toothache The Liminanas – Shadow People (featuring Emmanuelle Seigner) … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’ve previously shared Kicks and now we’re thoroughly enjoying cranking out this new track from lo-fi garage punks Gestures. Nervous is also taken from the Stockholm band’s new EP Bad Taste that is due out a week today, and if anything is even better than the previous single. Enjoy… Continue reading Gestures – Nervous
London band Calva Louise gleefully mix squalling guitars with the sweetest of pop melodies to create quirky, outsider punk rock that has nods to Pere Ubu, Talking Heads and the Sugarcubes. Listen to their blistering new track Getting Closer below. Continue reading MM Shorts 986: Calva Louise
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