Here is the first taste from Dinowalrus’s forthcoming record. Grounded is a tasty mid-tempo rocker from the synth-psychedelia specialists and also features some smokin’ harmonica. It is booming nicely out of the MM speakers. Grab it below. Download Dinowalrus – Grounded mp3 Continue reading MM Shorts 209: New From Dinowalrus
Back from a short break and with a whole lot of musical catching up to do…here are ten new tunes we’re starting with. Have a listen too. a a a a a a a a a a Continue reading Streaming Round Up
Hot on the heels of our previous Insound mixtape post comes another – this time it is their latest Vinyl mixtape. Available to all their newsletter subscribers (you just need to exchange an e-mail address, a tweet or Facebook like), the sampler is full of great tracks from Chris Cohen, Cult of Youth, Ex Vivian, Eternal Summers, Kisses, Levek, METZ, The Helio Sequence, and Young Guv … Continue reading MM Shorts 207: Yet Another Insound Mixtape
Day three and more sun, surely one the only sequences of three whole days without rain that we’ve had all summer. Despite 14,000 pairs of feet, the estate still looked rather fine and the spirit of village-green good naturedness was still at the forefront of everything. On the bandstand the Keston Cobblers’ Club provided the perfect soundtrack for the setting with a gorgeous set of … Continue reading Live Review: The Wilderness Festival (Day 3)
In addition to the Wilderness Olympic medal awards handed out by youngest sprat (see Mrs Mackerel’s post here) Saturday at the festival was another day of glorious sunshine, bizarre moments (badminton matches joined table tennis, the official skinny dipping world record attempt, miming cats and much much more) and a stellar musical line-up. The timeless, beautiful harmonies of The Staves set everyone up perfectly in … Continue reading Live Review: Wilderness Festival (Day 2)
We are lucky to live on the edge of the Cotswolds and on the fringes of the beautiful Cornbury Park Estate. Previously it was home to the Cornbury Festival, which was unfortunate in, for a few years, consistently having the worst musical line-up you could contrive to put together. It was a source of constant disappointment to us. However, last year the Cornbury Festival thankfully … Continue reading Live Review: Wilderness Festival (Day 1)
Drawing comparisons to Helium, the Breeders and Stereolab (if they had grabbed a drum machine and danced a bit more), Panda Riot’s Serious Radical Girls 7” is an enthralling collage of ghostly vocals, dance-y drums (real and otherwise), dub-y bass lines and blurry guitars. Golden Age (Precursor) is, if anything, even better – they describe it as “an acid peak on your sunny day” and that pretty … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Panda Riot
Goodbye Labrador’s new EP A Thousand Times Before was released this week and is an other-worldly, guitar-driven collection of skilfully textured melodies and thoughtful lyrics that belie the band’s relative infancy – this is only their second release. Try the darkly beautiful and sombre Memoir from the EP, and buy the whole thing from their Bandcamp page here. a Continue reading MM Shorts 204: Goodbye, Labrador
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