Texan singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo releases his tenth solo album Street Songs Of Love in June via the Concord Music Group. Mostly written in collaboration with ex Green On Red man Chuck Prophet, the album has garnered fine advance reviews and we’re looking forward to getting our hands on a copy as soon as we can. ‘Til then, like us, you’ll just have to make do … Continue reading New from Alejandro Escovedo
Lissie’s duet with Ellie Goulding at this month’s Great Escape festival is now causing some waves over on YouTube. The pair performed Everywhere I Go, one of the stand-out tracks from Lissie’s forthcoming debut album Catching A Tiger. Watch it below. Pre-order Catching A Tiger from Amazon here. Continue reading Lissie & Ellie Goulding Duet @ The Great Escape
Delta Spirit’s new album, History From Below, is due out on June 14th here in the UK and is the long awaited follow-up to 2008’s Ode To Sunshine, which contained the outstanding Trashcan, possibly our favourite song of that year. The advance track Bushwick Blues is another anthemic stomper that brilliantly showcases their country rock roots and ear for a tasty lyric. Count down the … Continue reading New from Delta Spirit
MM faves, Woodpigeon recently joined Baeblemusic in their apartment to perform three beautiful acoustic tracks. You can watch it by clicking here. Buy Die Stadt Muzikanten from End of The Road here. Download Woodpigeon – Empty-Hall-Sing-Along mp3 (from Die Stadt Muzikanten) Continue reading Woodpigeon at Baeblemusic’s Guest Apartment
Wild Nothing is to all intents and purposes Jack Tatum. He mines a rich seam stretching from Cure-like synths to the catchy ultra-hip rhythms of The Drums. His debut album Gemini is imminent and is bursting at the seams with blissed out pop and classic indie melodies – just check out this advance taster called Chinatown – it is about as summery as you can get … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Wild Nothing
Last Friday, prompted by my song selections, I put a musical question to MM that he was unable to answer for once. Namely, if you were a band which band would you be? I – rather fancifully I think – decided that I would be DeVotchKa. Go on, you know you want to … Anyway, seeing as we’ve been married a whole fifteen years (I … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
Fifteen years ago today Mrs Mackerel and I tied the knot. There have been lots of ups, a few downs, but I’m still feeling like the luckiest man alive. Mrs Mackerel, Happy Anniversary. I love you x Here’s a blast from the past, forget the lyrics, this is a song of the day that deserved those irresistible Mackerel dance floor moves. Ha! Download The Levellers … Continue reading HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MRS MACKEREL
Mrs Mackerel in particular has been thoroughly enjoying the Mumford & Sons album. Their new single Roll Away Your Stone is one of her favourites on the record and so we thought we’d give you a nice video of them playing the song live to enjoy. If you’ve yet to sample the delights of the Mumfords check out their original ‘breakthrough’ track Little Lion Man … Continue reading New Single from Mumford & Sons
A while ago we posted the superb gothic folk of Red Clay River and gave you the wonderful track Rattlesnake Mountain. We’ve become aware that the file has become corrupted somehow and downloading it only gives you half the song – so here it is again in all its glory this time with our apologies, and because we (and they) are so damn nice, we’re giving … Continue reading Red Clay River: Re-upload
The Japandroids at the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. Loud. Relentless. Distorted. Louder. More relentless. More distorted. Ears hurt. There is nothing else to say. Buy Japandroids here. MySpace here. Download Japandroids – Art Czars mp3 (from Art Czars 7″) Download Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire mp3 (from Post-Nothing) Download Japandroids – Darkness On The Edge Of Gastown mp3 (from No Singles) Continue reading Live Review: Japandroids
