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
Marika Hackman has announced her new single, Animal Fear, together with the rather unusual art aspect to her debut album – We Slept At Last. Both will be released on the 16th February. Working with photographer Glen Erler, she has created a series of poetic and powerful images that will form the art booklet released with both the CD and vinyl editions of her album and which … Continue reading New Single From Marika Hackman
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
Have a listen to Denver trio Shady Elders’ new single The Night Air, combining elements of dark-wave, dream pop, doo-wop and shoegaze, all on top of vocalist Fox Rodemich’s inimitable, singular voice. Buy the EP from Bandcamp here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 647: Shady Elders
Here is a selection of eight new music videos that have caught our eye, and ears, recently. There’s some creepy and weird stuff in there too – freaky clowns, burning dolls houses, epileptic horses, sacrifices… So dig in to offerings from Circa Waves, Maryleigh Roohan, Alex G, Whistlejacket, Sean Grant & The Wolfgang, Guts Club, Steel Trees, and Green Gerry. . . . . . … Continue reading Video Round-Up
A perfect follow-up to our earlier post about BETS, and continuing a theme of female led indie-pop, we have Thea & The Wild for you. Thea Glenton Raknes is from Norway, (which given the Mackerel’s familial connections is always a good start) where she is already well established as a songwriter, lyricist, frontwoman, and now as a producer. With her project Thea & The Wild, she produces … Continue reading Introducing… Thea & The Wild
BETS are a bi-coastal, all-girl band. Their first track, Don’t Give A F#ck recently came out off their upcoming LP, Days Hours Nights. Despite the title, it is beguilingly hazy indie pop with just a hint of laid-back reggae rhythm, and topped with gorgeous dreamy vocals. Love this. Give it a spin. . Continue reading MM Shorts 646: BETS
Wishing you a very happy, and musically fulfilled, 2015. Plenty to look forward to methinks, but for now see in the New Year with these couple of crackers (and free downloads) from Big Sun and Daisy Victoria. . . Continue reading Happy New Year…
We know Christmas has been and gone now and everyone is looking forward to New Year celebrations, but that hasn’t mattered to Howth who yesterday released Xmas Songs via Bandcamp. He says it is “less optimistic” than his recent album The World Is A Beautiful Place, which may be something of an understatement. Musically it is a mix of folk, psych and weird outsider pop and lyrically … Continue reading Howth – Xmas Songs
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)
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