Vibrant, modern day punks – Hull four piece LIFE were one of our favourite discoveries playing live at Truck festival last summer. This is their first new music since the release of their excellent debut album Popular Music. Grown Up is another frenetic, raucous slice of muscular indie-rock that plays with the theme of adulthood; getting to grips with your responsibilities and behaving in a mature … Continue reading New Single From LIFE
Welcome to numbers 120 through to 101 of our favourite tunes of the past ten years… 120 Black Mountain – Let Spirits Ride (2010) Who cares if the riff is nicked from another song, or if it sounds like 1972. I don’t when it as good as this. Pure riffola magic. 119 Faith Healer – No Car (2015) Kicking up a meaty riff … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 5)
Dr. Dog – Virginia Please MIEN – Odessey Bad Breeding – Dehumanised Phil Cook featuring Amelia Meath – Miles Away Giant Sand – Tumble And Tear River Whyless – Motel 6 Post Louis – Stress Fracture No Problem – Get The Feeling Back School Damage – Scump Damage 1 Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Day four of our countdown of our favourite 200 songs of the past 10 years. 140 Chelsea Light Moving – Groovy & Linda (2012) A distorted, bloody jam in tune with the bloody, violent nature of the 1960s shooting it narrates. Any Sonic Youth undertones? What do you think. 139 Dan Auerbach – Heartbroken, In Disrepair (2009) The gritty guitar sound sets up a soulful, dirty … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 4)
Here is Part 2 of our countdown of our favourite songs from the past ten years… 180 Strand Of Oaks – Alex Kona (2010) “Alex Kona was twelve feet tall, his mother got killed by a bowling ball”. What else is there? 179 Port O’Brien – My Will Is Good (2009) Rhythmic and punchy folk-rock, but with a hook most pop songs would … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 2)
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)
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)
Lots and lots of good new stuff this week…lucky thirteen in fact! Courtney Barnett – City Looks Pretty Father John Misty – Disappointing Diamonds Are The Rarest Of Them All T. Hardy Morris – Be Fidlar – Alcohol Okkervil River – Famous Tracheotomies Wavves – All Star Goth Tancred – Queen Of New York Iceage – The Day The Music Dies Mazzy Star – Quiet, … Continue reading Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
METZ have a new animated video for the blistering Mr. Plague, taken from their 2017 album, Strange Peace. As described by director, Shayne Ehman, the video examines: “…the crumbling remnants of civilisation…a broken justice system…a consumer wasteland… Was it all part of the plan?” Watch and find out… Continue reading Metz – Mr Plague Video
Our favourite surreal DIY punk duo The Lovely Eggs are following up on the success of recent album This Is Eggland with the release of new single Big Sea, which can be purchased on surf blue 7″ vinyl. The track dives deep, exploring the mysteries of the universe, and is a rallying anthem to everyone who wants to live life different. Stream it below. You can … Continue reading New Single & Live Dates From The Lovely Eggs
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