Here are the annual choices of the past year’s top tuneage from the admirable Chris T Popper. 10. Protomartyr – Processed By The Boys The first song from their new album Ultimate Success Today was everything I’d been waiting for. Loud reverb with a clumping sense of doom from the ever reliable Joe Casey. He’s singing about a future so scary it can’t be that … Continue reading Chris T Popper’s Favourite Tunes of 2020
Here is the final part of this year’s countdown of our favourite tunes of 2020. Many thanks to MM stalwarts Chris T Popper and Dr Roddy (whose personal selections will come in the next couple of days) and to anyone who has read / listened and discovered something new in a year that truly sucked. Happy New Year and here’s to a better 2021. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Tracks Of 2020: Part 4 (25-1)
Here is part 3 of our countdown of our favourite 100 songs of 2020. 50 Peel Dream Magazine – Emotional Devotion Creator 49 Slow Weather – Great White Male 48 Blackbird & Crow – The Witch That Could Not Be Burned 47 Frances of Delirium – Quit Fucking Around 46 Adia Victoria – South Gotta Change 45 Dream Wife … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Tracks Of 2020: Part 3 (50-26)
Time for some heavy, heavy psych – channeling their inner Sabbath, Zeppelin and Pink Floyd – All Them Witches deliver a masterpiece of throwback 70s riffola on The Children of Coyote Woman. It is the latest track shared from upcoming long player Nothing as the Ideal, and is a guaranteed headphone trip. Illegal substances optional as always. Enjoy. Continue reading All Them Witches – The Children of Coyote Woman
All Them Witches will return with a new album, their first as a trio, called Nothing as the Ideal on September 4th. The record is their most experimental work to date. It’s also their heaviest album and we’re very much liking the sound of lead track Saturnine & Iron Jaw, a near seven minute slow, bluesy burn that takes off from a looping, chiming intro and … Continue reading All Them Witches Share Saturnine & Iron Jaw
Slaves – Chokehold Sleaford Mods – Stick In A Five And Go Spiritualized – Here It Comes (The Road) Let’s Go Interpol – Number 10 All The Witches – Fishbelly 86 Onions Mutual Benefit – Come To Pass Ron Gallo – It’s All Gonna Be OK Dirty Lungs – Dumps Like A Truck Maxband – Means To An End Muncie Girls – Locked Up … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
It has been far too long since we posted any videos. We’re righting that wrong today with an excellent collection culled from our in-box – some old(er), some new, some borrowed and some blue(s). So sit back, relax and enjoy musical films from Big Thief, Great American Canyon Band, Fidlar, M.Ward, On Dead Waves, All Them Witches, Impulsive Hearts, Bleached, Traams, and Holly Miranda. … Continue reading Video Round-Up
Nashville psych crew All Them Witches have offered up the first taste of their new album Dying Surfer Meets His Maker with the track Dirt Preachers. Heavy, heady and hypnotic, within each build-up, breakdown, riff and groove lays an iconoclastic blend of rock music’s furthest reaches. Watch the excellent video made by Chad VanGaalen. The album is due February 19th via New West Records. Continue reading New Video: All Them Witches – Dirt Preachers
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