Queens of the Stone Age – The Evil Has Landed Wand – Bee Karma The National – Carin’ At The Liquor Store Destroyer – Sky’s Grey Prophets Of Rage – Radical Eyes Trance Farmers – Speed Racer Beachtape – Slow SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The War On Drugs – Pain Dream Syndicate – Glide Flat Worms – Motorbike Weaves – #53 Elijah Ocean – Bad Dreams Billy Bragg – King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood Hamilton Leithauser – Road To Nowhere (Talking Heads cover) Hand Habits – Yr Heart SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave SaveSaveSaveSave SaveSave Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard (Last) Week
We loved L.A. Witch’s track Untitled which we posted back in June. Now we have a new track, the slower, more sinewy Baby In Blue Jeans for your listening edification. It comes from their upcoming debut album and is a grittier take on Mazzy Star’s hazy, sleepy beauty. Immerse yourself below. Continue reading More From L.A. Witch
Ty Segall – Big Man Jessica Lea Mayfield – Sorry Is Gone Hamilton Leithauser – The Song With No Name (Shane MacGowan & The Popes cover) Hinds – Holograma (Los Nastys cover) Beaches – When You’re Gone Alvvays – Dreams Tonite The Districts – Violet Elliott Brood – Til The Sun Comes Up Again Shannon Lay – The Moons Detriment Jack Cooper – Gynn Square … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Wolf Parade will return with their first proper album in seven years, Cry Cry Cry, which lands on the 6th October on their long-time home of Sub Pop. The soaring choruses, rousing anthems, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys that make up Wolf Parade are all on proud display on the album’s anthemic lead single, the boisterous Valley Boy. Stream it below. Continue reading Wolf Parade – Valley Boy
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
With Dream Dream Secret Colours continues to craft a sound that reaches far beyond the city limits of their hometown of Chicago, taking its musical cues from indie, pop, psychedelia, and garage rock, and offering listeners a myriad of melodies that make up the band’s signature sound. Check out Feed the Machine, which delivers a pounding vibe of bass with an attitude of 70s London and the … Continue reading New Album From Secret Colours
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
Surfing Magazines, the new garage-rock group consisting of two thirds of The Wave Pictures and one half of Slow Club, have shared New Day – the second track to be taken from their self-titled debut album, due for release on Moshi Moshi on 1st September. They say “New Day is a super quick tune. I’m not totally sure what its about. There’s some Russian dolls in there, … Continue reading Surfing Magazines – New Day
Time for some more musical films… Hull Goth Punk outfit Lumer have released the video for their unhinged new single Gruel on Warren Records. Reminiscent of Bauhaus, Killing Joke and YAK it is a brutally thrilling cut. Spirit Valley’s expansive, primal psych-rock falls somewhere between the fuzzed out rock’n’roll of The Black Angels and the warped synths of Moon Duo check out new single Waiting For Real. Fuzz Club Records’ live session … Continue reading Welcome To The Videodome
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