Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Blueberry Jam Phobophobes – Child Star Tomberlin – I’m Not Scared Torres – Gracious Day Waxahatchee – Chapel Of Pines Menace Beach – Crawl In Love Harlan T. Bobo – Nadine The Goon Sax – Make Time 4 Love Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Lots of tasty covers this week… The Devil Makes Three – Bad Idea Jacuzzi Boys – Song For The Man (Beastie Boys cover) D.A. Stern – I Don’t Know (Beastie Boys cover) The Dirty Nil – Pain Of Infinity Beak> – Brean Down William Elliott Whitmore – Fear Of Trains (Magnetic Fields cover) Phoebe Bridgers – The Gold (Manchester Orchestra cover) David Bazan – Thread … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Featuring members of Terry Malts and Plateaus, LA power pop group Smokescreens have unveiled a new video for their latest single Waiting For Summer, the third track taken from their new album Used To Yesterday, due out this week via Slumberland Records. Filmed during a chilly February morning on a Skid Row rooftop, director Steel O’Neil captures the band embracing the LA winter, whilst pining … Continue reading Smokescreens – Waiting For Summer
Slaves – Cut And Run Low – Quorum Protomartyr (feat. Kelley Deal) – You Always Win Jon Spencer – Do The Trash Can M. Ward – Miracle Man Menace Beach (feat. Brix Smith) – Black Rainbow Sound Muncie Girls – Picture Of Health Culture Abuse – Dip Interpol – The Rover Jason Isbell – The Assassin (Patterson Hood cover) Lumerians – Space Curse Death Cab … Continue reading Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We have already shared Shake, a track from The Rareflowers self-titled debut EP. Now we have New Generation for your listening pleasure. It substitutes (a little) of the jangly guitars for an irresistibly catchy guitar refrain, but keeps the same warm, upbeat feel as the previous single and is just as damn enjoyable. Stream it here. Continue reading More From The Rareflowers
Shake is the first single off of NJ-based three-piece The Rareflowers’ debut, self-titled EP. Stream it below – it really is a three and a half minute gem of jangly indie-pop that effortlessly recalls the C86 heyday, or even classic bands like The Replacements. And it does it without ever being derivative, and with a nice contemporary feel. It simply is impossible not to like this! The … Continue reading The Rareflowers – Shake
London’s Teleman have long been MM staples, and the foursome have unveiled details of their third studio album; Family of Aliens, set for release in early September (pre-order here). To mark the occasion, they have offered another insight into their flourishing electronic-inspired sound, with new single Cactus. Flaunting the harmonious marriage of their classic pop sensibility accompanied by pulsating electronic undertones, the single is anchored … Continue reading Teleman – Cactus
Philadelphia-based band Oldermost have announced the release of their fourth album, How Could You Ever Be The Same? (out July 13th via AntiFragile Music). As a taster they’re sharing the album’s rollicking, anthemic lead single The Danger of Belief, which was made for a long straight highway with the windows down and the volume up. We’re loving this one. So if the War On Drugs, … Continue reading Oldermost – The Danger Of Belief
So here we are, the penultimate day of our countdown of our favourite 200 songs marking ten years of MM. Today, we’ve hit the top twenty… 20 The Dutchess & The Duke – Reservoir Park (2008) Wonderfully rootsy swagger of earthy, organic folk-rock set to a loose Stones like honky tonk rumble. 19 Wooden Wand – Winter In Kentucky (2011) Set against … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 14)
The countdown of our Favourite 200 songs of the past 10 years has taken over everything over the last two weeks, so here is our (belated) round-up of some of the best new songs of the past 14 days. Parquet Courts – Mardi Gras Beads Protomartyr (featuring Kelley Deal) – Wheel Of Fortune Lumerians – Silver Trash The Plainviews – Bladerunner The Lovely Eggs – … Continue reading Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week & Last
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