IDLES have confirmed details for the follow up to last year’s excellent debut album Brutalism. The much anticipated record is titled Joy as an Act of Resistance, and will be out August 31st via Partisan Records. It takes aim at everything from toxic masculinity, nationalism, immigration, and class inequality – all the while maintaining a visceral, infectious positivity. The Bristol band have also shared the … Continue reading IDLES – Danny Nedelko
Bristol’s IDLES are one of our favourite bands and they have shared a new song and video, their first new material since last year’s excellent Brutalism album. Colossus is a blistering two-part takedown of toxic masculinity, and the video features cameos from Stone Cold Steve Austin, Fred Astaire, Evel Knievel, Jesus Christ and more. Watch it below. IDLES Continue reading New From IDLES
Wooden Shjips – Already Gone Oh Sees – Overthrown Israel Nash – Rolling On Goon – Choke Throat Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood – Save Me Sons of Bill – Easier (feat. Molly Parden) Liars – Liquorice Gurr – Hot Summer Mommy Long Legs – Bridezilla Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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)
We’re getting towards the sharp end of our mammoth count down now. Here are songs 30-21 of our favourites of the past ten years. 30 Bear Bones – Oil And Lacquer (2010) An eight-piece folk explosion of rousing, thickly accented, swagger and swing. 29 James McMurtry – Copper Canteen (2015) Opening with the quasi-funny, possibly serious “Honey don’t you be yelling at … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 13)
T. Hardy Morris – Homemade Bliss Whispertown – Never Felt Young Phil Cook – Another Mother’s Son Devendra Banhart – Shown And Told An Horse – Get Out Somehow River Whyless – Darkness In Mind Ty Segall & White Fence – Good Boy Neko Case – Curse Of The I-5 Corridor (feat. Mark Lanegan) Fucked Up – High Rise (Trainspotters cover) Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
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
We’re celebrating ten years of MM. Today we’ve reached the top 50 of our favourite songs of the past decade. 50 Discount Guns – I Heard (2012) Ass kicking blend of blues rock and country and western with big riffs, plenty of fuzz and loads of reverb. Like the Black Keys with balls. 49 Thee Oh Sees – Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster (2013) … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 11)
We’re counting down our favourite songs of the past ten years. Here are numbers 70-61. 70 Water Liars – Swannanoa (2015) A melancholy story of searching and loss, of heroin and girls with stutters, of cowardice and looking death in the face. No one does this stuff as well as Water Liars. 69 Goodnight, Texas – Jesse Got Trapped In A Coalmine (2012) … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 9)
Time for tunes 80 thru 71 in our Top 200 of the past ten years. 80 Dr. Dog – It (2010) Criminally tucked away on the expanded edition of Shame Shame, It is perfect Dr. Dog – nostalgic, feel-good, laid back folk inflected Americana that cries out for the back porch. 79 Chaika – The Mirror (2015) Compulsive, hazy garage-psych to sear the … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 8)
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