The Casket Girls is a three-piece band hailing from Savannah, GA. Comprised of Ryan Graveface (Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Marshmallow Ghosts, Dreamend), who writes and plays all the song structures and Elsa and Phaedra Greene, who write and perform all of the vocals. The Casket Girls happened – as most things do – by accident. Ryan was visiting his future home, and in walking … Continue reading 100 Songs in 100 Hours: 26 – Casket Girls
NightOwl is heavily influenced by rock bands, such as The Doors, The Black Keys, and The Rolling Stones. Suffused with a bluesy undertone, Stripped To The Core captures these classic influences as well the playful, adventurous spirit of California to create a rollicking modern day rock’n’roll song. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 24 – NightOwl
Energetic rock trio The By Gods are releasing their sophomore album Get On Feelings on January 22nd. Check out the fuzzed up guitars and catchy hooks of On The Radio that calls to mind such greats as Husker Du and Superchunk. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 12 – The By Gods
Hunter is a 24-year-old South Bay, CA native and currently resides in Los Feliz. His work is a series of low-fi punk-influenced songs about growing up by the ocean. He released his debut EP H.S.E. in March of last year and followed it up with a second EP, Thee I Carry, in the autumn. Listen to the satisfyingly crunchy lead track from it, Tall Can. … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 10 – Hunter
Here is Copenhagen’s Baby In Vain’s latest song Worthwhile. Sinister and sleazy, it is a creeping and unsuspecting track which explodes into action with guitars as riotous as they are sultry and effortlessly cool vocal harmonies from Lola Hammerich and Andrea Thuesen. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 7 – Baby In Vain
Daydreaming is the recently released full-length debut from Minneapolis based indie rock band, Murder Shoes. The album features eleven compelling tracks of dark, reverb-heavy guitar and sultry female vocals. None more so than this track, Girls Named Benji. 100 Posts in 100 Hours is a series rounding up the best of our inbox from the tail end of 2015. Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 5 – Murder Shoes
We thought we’d start in 2016 with 100 posts in 100 hours, a series of shorts rounding up some of the new, unheard, obscure and other tracks we missed from last year that remain in our inbox, but more than deserve to be heard. We’re kicking off with the brilliant Mean Girl Blues from Roy Peak from his album All Is Well. A visceral and savage slab … Continue reading 100 Songs In 100 Hours: 1 – Roy Peak
Here we go, a new year and no less than nine new songs including welcome returns for Dr. Dog, Richmond Fontaine, The Dandy Warhols, Wintersleep, Steve Mason, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy amongst others. Dr.Dog – Bring My Baby Back Richmond Fontaine – Wake Up Ray Savages – Adore Wintersleep – Amerika The Dandy Warhols – You Are Killing Me Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Rich Wife … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2016 with Chris T Popper’s first recommendation of the year for you. The excellently named Meatraffle are new to us, but on the evidence of Nice Young Couple, a brilliantly lo-fi, ramshackle tale of drug dealing in the local community, we will be checking out their debut album Hi Fi Classics immediately. Watch the video for it here. Continue reading New Video: Meatraffle – Nice Young Couple
And so here is the final personal Top Twenty of the year. This time it is my turn! Another twelve months neatly wrapped up and delivered for your listening pleasure and here’s to 2016… 20. Quiet Hollers – Mont Blanc An apocalyptic, “end-is-nigh” rolling, country rock anthem. Pure poetry with the best coda to a song I heard all year, “shed a tear for the books … Continue reading MM’S BEST OF THE YEAR: MAD MACKEREL’S TOP TWENTY SONGS
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