Our regular weekend feature highlighting some of the tunes you really ought to have heard already this week is back. First one of 2015 kicks off with no less than nine new tunes and some real corkers too. 1. Iron & Wine – Everyone’s Summer of ’95 2. Stornoway – The Road You Didn’t Take 3. Sonny & The Sunsets – Happy Carrot Health Store … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Sun Hotel have shared their new single, the marvellously titled, After Peggy Tells Her Parents They Never Had Any Trouble in Their Relationship, which is also their first for four years. It is a rollicking, raucous indie rock song with fuzz pop influences and triumphantly shaky melodies. It comes from forthcoming long player Rational Expectations (due on the 3rd February). Give it a spin… . Continue reading Sun Hotel Share First Single In Four Years
Here is the acoustic led Mr Face, a new song from psych-garage rocker extraordinaire Ty Segall, and the title track from a new four track EP of the same name. It is available via Famous Class Records on Bandcamp. . Continue reading New From Ty Segall
NY-based garage-psych rockers Sun Voyager are celebrating the release of their split EP with King Pizza labelmates Greasy Hearts, Grease Voyage, by offering fuzzy lo-fi single God Is Dead up as a free download. Grab it below. . Continue reading Sun Voyager Offer Free Download Of Single God Is Dead
Pink Mountaintops has partnered with French lifestyle site APRIL 77 for a limited-edition 7″ titled Asleep With An Angel. It features two exclusive songs, and only 250 copies of the pink splattered vinyl are available for purchase through April 77’s store. The tracks are also available digitally now via iTunes. Listen to the excellent A side below. . Continue reading Pink Mountaintops – Asleep With An Angel
Lets start drawing a year to the close with The Menders, a five piece band from Gastonia, North Carolina. They expertly blend influences such as The Beatles, Jack White, The Doors, and Ryan Adams into a folk-laced garage rock sound – check out Unbreakable from their self titled debut album. . Continue reading MM Short 644: The Menders
This is (another) release that we’re a little late to the party with. Mixed in a fury of caffeine and beer, and recorded with the shortest distance from sweaty performance to wax, Brass Bed have unleashed Be Anything b/w Mind the Gap and a glimpse of what’s to come from their upcoming fourth album. The single follows on from their highly acclaimed 2013 LP, The Secret Will … Continue reading Brass Bed – Be Anything 7″
As we gallop towards the end of the year it is natural to start looking forward to 2015 and anticipating the new releases that will be coming our way. However, it is an inevitable certainty that, during 2014 we have missed out on a huge number of records that deserved a mention and sharing…so rather than look forward, we’ve looked back and picked out a … Continue reading Some We Missed (Round Up Time Again)
And so we bring our round up of favourite songs, albums, covers, and guilty pleasures to a close with the final “best of” post, Mad Mackerel’s own top twenty. 20 Kye Alfred Hillig – My Young Love Was As Blind As Ray Charles And Half As Cold As Heat . 19 Parquet Courts – Black And White . 18 Jamie T – The Prophet . 17 … Continue reading Best of the Year: Mad Mackerel’s Top Twenty
Our penultimate offering comes in the shape of Mrs Mackerel’s favourite songs of 2014… …I think, being a fish of some advancing years now, I know what I like – but at least that ranges quite widely (she says, defiantly). As usual, though, I’m late to deadline, so without further pontification or procrastination, here are my favourite songs of 2014. 20. War On Drugs – … Continue reading Best of the Year: Mrs Mackerel’s Top Twenty
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