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
From A Charlie Brown Christmas, here is Wavves cover of the Vince Guaraldi classic Christmas Time Is Here. Enjoy. Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No. 13: Wavves
Our final weekly round-up of the year… King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – All Is Known Decemberists – Ben Franklin’s Song Ron Gallo – Really Nice Guys Van William – Before I Found You A Savage – Linger (Cranberries cover) Purling Hiss – My Dreams S. Carey – Still, Still, Still. NØMADS – Xenophobia Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Lucy Dacus has announced detail of her new album Historian which will be released on 2nd March, along with new track Night Shift. Night Shift is a six and half minute opus, moving from gently strummed guitar and dulcet vocals to a distorted, throbbing, emotional crescendo. It also opens with possibly our favourite line of the year so far, “The first time I tasted somebody else’s spit, … Continue reading New Album From Lucy Dacus
Our twelfth festive offering comes from indie-poppers Spook School, and their brand new seasonal single, Someone To Spend Christmas With. Stream it here, and watch out for the release of their upcoming third album Could It Be Different?, which is due on 26th January on Slumberland Records (USA) and Alcopop! Records (UK). Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No. 12: Spook School
Girl Ray’s seasonal single (I Wish I Were Giving You A Gift) This Christmas is out now on a Moshi Moshi 7″. It is a song as witty and wistful as any on their debut album, Earl Grey, and is about yuletide loneliness and longing, finding the North London trio embracing a seasonally sonic palette of children’s choir, sleigh bells, and the hidden whinny of a … Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No. 11: Girl Ray
Up and coming South Londoners Goat Girl have shared new track Scream, a B-side to the excellent recent single Cracker Drool. Listen below. The band also head out on a UK headline tour in the spring. 2018 Tour Dates March 31st Manchester @ Deaf Institute April 1st Cardiff @ Goes Pop April 9th Newcastle @ The Cluny April 10th Edinburgh @ Sneaky Pete’s April 12th … Continue reading Goat Girl – Scream
Time to change the pace of our festive offerings a little… Several of the newly convened punk supergroup Wartoad are rumoured to be spectacularly well-known rock musicians from the US, but have adopted pseudonyms for this, their first release – a riotous cover of Noddy and co’s Christmas staple, Merry Xmas Everybody. Fusing their love of classic punk and rock bands with sleazy keyboard and … Continue reading It’s Christmas… Festive Tune No. 10: Wartoad
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
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