Dead Meadow – Keep Your Head

Dead Meadow will be releasing a new album, The Nothing They Need  on 30th March in the UK. They have just shared their first single, Keep Your Head, which perfectly exemplifies the band’s unique marriage of Sabbath riffs, dreamy layers of guitar-fuzz bliss, and singer Jason Simon’s melodic croon. Dive in…   Continue reading Dead Meadow – Keep Your Head

MM’s Best of 2017: Chris T Popper

Our second personal countdown comes from long time top twenty stalwart Chris T Popper, a fish of fine musical taste and the Steve Bould of Mad Mackerel. 20 Nervous Dater – Bad Spanish   19 The Moonlandingz – Black Hanz   18 Meat Wave – The Incessant   17 Roadhouses – Drinkin’   16 Ty Segall – Big Man   15 Public Serivce Broadcasting – … Continue reading MM’s Best of 2017: Chris T Popper

Mad Mackerel’s Tracks Of The Year 50 – 26

50 Hiccup – Teasin’   49 Nervous Dater – Bad Spanish   48 Sun Abduction – Acid Pyramid   47 Roadhouses – Drinkin’   46 Dream Police – Revenge   45 BAIT – Push The Elephant   44 Meat Wave – The Incessant   43 Young Fathers – Only God Knows   42 Ty Segall – Big Man   41 The Sugarmen – Our Gallows … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Tracks Of The Year 50 – 26

Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Sufjan Stevens – Tonya Harding Jim White – Silver Threads Strand of Oaks – Passing Out Ty Segall – Every 1’s A Winner  (Hot Chocolate cover) Kal Marks – Loosed Windhand – Old Evil Long Neck – Mine/Yours Lionlimb – Maria                   Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Eight Songs You Should Have Heard… Last Week

Well, better late than never! And some great new tunes. Ty Segall – Alta The Limiñanas featuring Anton Newcombe – Istanbul Is Sleepy Who Is She? – Seattle Freeze Langhorne Slim – Life Is Confusing A. Savage – Phantom Limbo Whitney – Light Upon The Lake Joint Effort – Blue Lightning Nervous Dater – Don’t Be A Stranger               … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard… Last Week

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Metz – Mess Of Wires Ornament – It Must Be The Season Jack Cooper – A Net S. Carey – Brassy Sun Weaves – Walkaway together PANGEA – Sippy Cup Public Access T.V. – Feeling It Out Chelsea Wolfe – Offering American Anymen – Flag Burner                     Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

We’re back with our regular weekly round-up of the best new releases of the past seven days. As might be expected a slightly slow start being our first of the year, but still seven tracks for your listening pleasure including tasty covers from Flo Morrisey with Matthew E White and Gooch Palms, some brutal, hardcore noise from Uniform, another taster from their new albums from Rainbrother, The … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

MM’s BEST OF 2016: MAD MACKEREL

Our final Best of post of 2016 is MM’s own selections. You can also listen via Spotify here. 20 TRAAMS – A House On Fire I always think I don’t really like long songs and yet they always seem to end up in my favourite tracks of the year. This TRAAMS song is nearly nine minutes long yet hurtles along in a blur of krautrock … Continue reading MM’s BEST OF 2016: MAD MACKEREL

MM’s BEST OF 2016: THE ITALIAN JOB

  The first of our four individual listings comes from The Italian Job – she of the detailed spreadsheets and punk rock outlook. Listen on Spotify here. 20. Underworld – I Exhale   19. The Wave Pictures – Pool Hall   18. Arborist – I Heard Him Leaving   17. Kyle Craft – Before The Wall   16. Terry Malts – Used To Be   … Continue reading MM’s BEST OF 2016: THE ITALIAN JOB

MM’s BEST ALBUMS OF 2016

Here are our favourite albums of 2016. We have to go against the flow a bit and say up front there is no place for David Bowie. Great though he was, and tragic that he died two days after the release of a good album, for us that was what it was, a good album, but not a great one. And besides he is topping … Continue reading MM’s BEST ALBUMS OF 2016