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The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 1)

Mad Mackerel has been around for ten years now. We’ve come a long way. Early days using Google’s blogspot where our posts were regularly and erroneously taken down through DMCA notices until the moment when Google just erased us completely, our move to WordPress in April 2010 where Kurt Vile, Beach Fossils, Johnny Flynn and Band of Horses were among our first posts. Those were … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 1)

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Live Review: Cabbage (Oxford Academy)

Cabbage. a cultivated plant eaten as a vegetable, having thick green or purple leaves surrounding a spherical heart or head of young leaves a person who leads a dull or inactive life politically energised, wryly observant, fast and furious indie band So it was that no. 2 (MM) having eaten no. 1, went, with middle sprat, to see no. 3 at the Oxford Academy. Despite … Continue reading Live Review: Cabbage (Oxford Academy)

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New Single From YOWL

Peckham five-piece YOWL have announced their new single Warm (In The Soft White Fire Of Modern Living). The band capture the frustration of the 9-to-5 London grind like few others (making Chris T Popper’s best of the year list in 2016). And in frontman Gabriel Byrde, they have someone who can spin poetry on songs about alienation and exhaustion. YOWL are often viciously loud, but on … Continue reading New Single From YOWL

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Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

The Men – Shimmer n’ Shine Pop 1280 – When No One Cares Half Waif – Back In Brooklyn Wand – Perfume Bent Denim – Idiot Cherry Glazerr – Juicy Socks Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Talking Straight Neko Case – Bad Luck Juanita Stein – Forgiver                     Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Introducing >>> MNNQNS

New FatCat Records signings MNNQNS are ticking MM’s post-punk boxes – tightly woven guitars, deadpan vocals, and a healthy dose of feedback. Throw in a bit of drone and some hypnotic, repetition and the French foursome’s upcoming Advertisement EP is looking like a sonic joy, with passing nods to some of the classics like The Fall, Sonic Youth and Television. Listen to If Only They Could … Continue reading Introducing >>> MNNQNS

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Echo Ladies Announce Pink Noise Album

Swedish shoegazers Echo Ladies have announced details of their debut album, Pink Noise, which is released on June 8 via Sonic Cathedral. With influences from the Cocteaus to the Jesus & Mary Chain by way of New Order, and effortlessly jumping between sonic mayhem and skewed synth-pop the trio have created a record that ably demonstrates their heady mix of melancholy, euphoria, anger and tenderness. Listen to Bedroom from … Continue reading Echo Ladies Announce Pink Noise Album

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DRINKS – Corner Shops

Hippo Lite, the new album from DRINKS (Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley of White Fence) is out on the 20th April, the follow up to 2015’s Hermits On Holiday. The latest song to be shared from it is Corner Shops, a typically oddball, off kilter track of skewed pop that somehow manages to be restrained and chaotic at the same time. Have a listen. … Continue reading DRINKS – Corner Shops

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Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Eels – Bone Dry Joan Shelley – The Bridge  (Dolly Parton cover) feat Bonnie Price Billy Breakfast Muff – Patient Manchester Orchestra – No Hard Feelings  (Avett Brothers cover) Hinds – Finally Floating Laura Veirs – Lightning Rod Medistation – Pool Of Blood Wye Oak – Lifer Eureka California – Mexican Coke                     Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Goat Girl – Throw Me A Bone

Goat Girl will release their self titled debut album next week via Rough Trade. Traversing influences from the Kinks to the Slits, it crams 19 tracks into 40 minutes, and today we have Throw Me A Bone for you – just over two minutes of typically intense, febrile post-punk. Stream it below, and check UK tour dates too. See them live March 31st Manchester @ … Continue reading Goat Girl – Throw Me A Bone

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Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Pop. 1280 – When No One Cares Speedy Ortiz – Lean In When I Suffer Hiss Golden Messenger – Passing Clouds Willie Breeding – Ride On Snail Mail – Pristine Dead Tongues – Won’t Be Long King Tuff – Thru The Cracks (feat. Jenny Lewis) ESCONDIDO – You’re Not Like Anybody Else                     Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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