First Aid Kit – Ruins Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain Suuns – Watch You, Watch Me Alela Diane – Ether & Wood Nap Eyes – I’m Bad Now Prism Tats – Daggers Public Access T.V. – Lost In The Game U.S. Girls – Pearly Gates Sunflower Bean – Crisis Fest Rik & The Pigs – America Frankie Cosmos – Jesse Kal Marks … Continue reading Fifteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
First Aid Kit – Fireworks No Age – Drippy Alela Diane – Émigré’ Calexico – Voices In The Field Olden Yolk – Takes One To Know One Craig Finn – Fault Lines  (Mountain Goats cover) Ty Segall – The Main Pretender The Orwells – Vanilla The Soft Moon – It Kills Graham Coxon – Falling Continue reading Ten (Count ’em) Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Allele Diane & Ryan Francesconi have shared a haunting new video for Shapeless, one of the stand-out tracks on their new collaborative album Cold Moon which was officially released yesterday. . . Continue reading New Video: Alela Diane & Ryan Francescoli – Shapeless
A bumper round up this week – new songs from The Decemberists, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Saintseneca, the mighty Killing Joke, cover songs from Iron & Wine and Okkervil River and plenty more besides. The Decemberists – Why Would I Now? Saintseneca – River Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi – Shapeless Killing Joke – I Am The Virus The Lovely Eggs – Goofing’ Around (In Lancashire) … Continue reading Twenty Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
Singer/songwriter (and longtime MM fave) Alela Diane and guitarist Ryan Francesconi have uniquely collaborated to create Cold Moon. The two musicians talked at a friend’s show in October 2014, chatting about how they were both experiencing creative standstills. Ryan was lacking inspiration to make more instrumental music, and Alela was at a loss for how to dive into writing a new record after the birth of … Continue reading Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi Collaborate On Cold Moon
Here is the second instalment of our favourite albums of 2013, counting down from 30 to 11. 30 Nick Cave – Push The Sky Away . 29 Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In . 28 Coke Weed – Back To Soft . 27 Georgia’s Horse – Weather Codes . 26 Alela Diane – About Farewell . 25 Foxygen –Â We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums Of 2013 (Part 2: 30 -11)
As well as our Top 100 tunes of the year that we’ve posted over the past few days, each of the MM contributors have put together their own lists. Today it is the turn of Mrs Mackerel. 20. Steve Mason – A Lot of Love Love the piano on this song and the catchy, sing-a-long chorus – a guaranteed earworm if I had any (ears … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s Top Songs of 2013
Part three of our favourite 100 tracks of 2013. Today we’re counting down from 50 – 26. 50 Hanni El Khatib – Nobody Move In Hanni El Khatib’s biog on Wikipedia he says that his “…music is for anyone who has ever been shot or hit by a train“. I think that this is a good way to describe this tune as it hits you … Continue reading MAD MACKEREL’S TOP TRACKS OF 2013: 50 – 26
Today we have (another) excellent Willy Mason video, this time for Talk Me Down, an appropriately woozy and kaleidoscopic video for Spectral Park’s Nausea, a revealing video for Those Darlins new track Oh God (free download available here), and finally Alela Diane’s video for the superb title track single for her new album About Farewell. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Willy Mason || Spectral Park || Those Darlins || Alela Diane
Alela Diane returns with a new album About Farewell and the first taste is this absolutely stunning track The Way We Fall. It is a wistful, haunting lament for lost love, and softly and sorrowfully rakes over past memories in a way that makes the heartbreak as poignant and as real as anything we’ve heard for a long time. Have a listen. Continue reading MM Shorts 333: Alela Diane’s New Album
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