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Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: May 2011

Here are the juiciest cuts from our May postings rounded up and presented as one marvellous mix plus a couple of cracking new tracks as well. Be sure to check out all our previous ‘Best Of the Month’ mixes in the sidebar too. Download Country Mice – Morning Son mp3 (from Twister) Country rock and blistering sonic experiments combining to deliver a brilliant apocalyptic ballad. Download Howling … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: May 2011

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Alternative, Country, Electronic, Folk, Garage, Indie, Jazz, Metal, Music, Pop, Psychedelic, Punk, Rock, Soul

Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: April 2011

Another month, another mix. A collection of twenty or so of the best tunes we posted in April plus a couple of tasty new ones. Download, hit play, relax. Download Ha Ha Tonka – Usual Suspects mp3 (from Death Of A Decade) Soulful, catchy, country rock. Download Sweet Lights – The Shortest Man On Earth mp3 (from Digital Single) Beautifully judged excursion into the world of classic sunshine and … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: April 2011

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Country, Folk, Indie, Music, Rock, Soul

Introducing…Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray

Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray are a duo who multi-task on guitars, kick drum, banjo, mandolin, lap steel and harmonica. Their influences include Motown, 60s AM radio country and western movies. In February they packed up and left Chicago to live on the road in their Honda Element for all of 2011, playing about 20 shows a month all over the country. Their new EP … Continue reading Introducing…Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray

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Treetop Flyers Are Glastonbury Bound

Treetop Flyers have just been crowned winners of the Glastonbury Emerging Talent contest, winning themselves a slot on the main-stage at this year’s event. Beating off competition from a host of excellent, unsigned acts (picked by a broad selection of UK bloggers over the last few months) the London quintet impressed the judges – including Michael and Emily Eavis – enough to bag themselves the … Continue reading Treetop Flyers Are Glastonbury Bound

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Alternative, Country, Folk, Music, Rock, Soul

Ha Ha Tonka To Release Death Of A Decade

Soulful, country rockers Ha Ha Tonka release their new album Death Of A Decade on 5th April via Bloodshot Records. To be honest, we’d never really clicked with the band before now. However, lead track Usual Suspects has changed all that! So much so, that while we look forward to the new record, we’re going to be going back to the old stuff and listening … Continue reading Ha Ha Tonka To Release Death Of A Decade

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Mrs Mackerel’s MGIM aka My God It’s Monday (28th Mar)

Good grief it’s Monday… I could bore you with an explanation, but really, does anyone care?! Only MM and he’s accepting of circumstances in his usual fishy way. We were quiz-lings again on Friday, and psychopaths (or should that be sociopaths?) notwithstanding, a good time was had by all. This week, the Teenager had his first humiliation in matters of the heart. Apparently, my rather … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s MGIM aka My God It’s Monday (28th Mar)

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Alternative, Blues, Music, Rock, Soul

New solo album from James Leg

James Leg (aka John Wesley Myers), growler, shouter, composer, and Fender Rhodes finger-fucker, of the Black Diamond Heavies, steps out with some friends for more songs of hedonistic excess, crazy-ass women and Southern salvation. On new solo album Solitary Pleasure he is joined by longtime friend Andy Jody on drums and if the slow burn of blistering taster track Drowning In Fire is anything to go … Continue reading New solo album from James Leg

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