Without wishing to dwell on the enormity of the wider social subjects of this week, I’m looking elsewhere for some lighter discussion points. Well the football season has begun. Another eight months of disappointment; of blame from the sprats (“Why did you have to be born in Sunderland and not Manchester?”); of wanting to put my hands around Steve Bruce’s throat. And squeeze VERY tightly. … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Saturday (13th August)
Tomorrow we head down to the first Wilderness Festival, taking place on our back door in the beautiful Cornbury Park Estate. Previously this lovely venue has hosted the Cornbury Festival, which has thankfully now moved elsewhere as (trust us) it has the worse possible line-up you could ever imagine for an event of this type. Anyway, the Wilderness is, as we say, a different kettle … Continue reading Wilderness Festival – Free Mix
Just like London buses, you wait for one and then get a plethora of arrivals all together. So it is with some of our favourite bands who are releasing tracks into the blogosphere at much the same time. You may have some/all of these already, but if not every one is worth having. First up is Blitzen Trapper and Love The Way You Walk Away … Continue reading More From Some Of The Big Guns
Here at MM we get a lot of songs to listen to as streams and it always takes us much longer to get round to these than downloads for obvious reasons (the iPod being the main one) and so we’ve had a concerted effort to listen to, and pick out, some of the better tunes we’ve received recently in this format. Having done that, the … Continue reading New Singles Round-Up
We are big fans of the sombre, down-tempo orchestral pop of The War Crimes and we have just received this from them in tribute to Amy Winehouse. Check out the other War Crimes tracks we’ve posted here. Download The War Crimes – Bride To Be mp3 Continue reading The War Crimes Tribute To Amy Winehouse
Here are a few tunes that have been floating around Mackerel Towers lately. We have tracks from Best Coast, Sleep Over, Comet Gain, Diva, Argyle Johansen, Bare Wires and Release The Sunbird covering folk, chilled electronica, dreamy pop, garage rock and some high octane guitar riffage. Pick through the bones and take what you fancy. Download Best Coast – How They Want Me To Be … Continue reading Mini Round-Up
The Coasts are Eric Mount and Ike Peters. The two met as freshman in college, became best friends, played music together just once, and laid down a rock n’ roll album shortly thereafter. The Coasts are just effortlessly fun, as if The Black Keys and Elvis Costello conceived an uncombed lovechild. The first track off their self-titled release, Poltergeist is a infectious, rolling pop song about moving into a haunted house. … Continue reading Introducing…The Coasts
We’ve taken the sea, the sunshine and a lot of sand. We’ve been outside. A lot. I’ve done a little bit of running, a fair bit of reading; eldest sprat has done a marathon of fishing, while the other two have spent quite some time splashing in the waves. It’s been very chilled, harmonious and sultry. The Ventnor wall lizards are basking and we count … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (5th August)
Bad Penny is to be the debut album from UK singer-songwriter Louis Jones, better known as Spectrals. This is the first single, the spritely, upbeat Big Baby, that melds 60s girl group fizz with Elvis Costello in an entirely good way. The single will precede the album, which is out in October on Wichita. Download Spectrals – Big Baby mp3 (from Big Baby 7″) Continue reading Spectrals Prep New Album
Named after a Walker Brothers’ album, residing in Kilburn, with origins in darkest Lancashire, Niteflights have drawn comparisons to the likes of Orange Juice, Metronomy and Mystery Jets. With their songs rooted in the “indie” and/or “pop” tag, Niteflights set out to create something that bulldozes past these walls and builds, in their place, a captivating and dynamic sound that will leave you tapping your … Continue reading Introducing…Niteflights
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