Another seven days older… another seven days of new tunes. Enjoy. 1. Fidlar – 40oz On Repeat 2. Sea Lion – Ghostlands 3. Sleaford Mods – Face To Faces 4. JEFF The Brotherhood – In My Mouth 5. Spraynard – Applebee’s Bar 6. Chelsea Wolfe – Carrion Flowers 7. Jawbreaker Reunion – Your X 8. Black Mountain – Black Mountain (demo) 9. Beirut – No … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Musically, the year is starting to really kick into gear now and February saw lots of top quality tunes hit the web. Here is our pick of the best of last month’s posts along with four brand, spanking new tracks for you to download, sample and treasure. All in all over thirty great songs in one great mix. Download Hoots & Hellmouth – Why Would You … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: February 2012
What better way to start the weekend than with almost eight minutes of heavy riffage from the mighty Black Mountain. This track, Mary Lou, comes from their soundtrack to new film Year Zero. The album is out on Jagjaguwar on the 4th March. Download Black Mountain – Mary Lou mp3 (from Year Zero Original Soundtrack) Continue reading MM Shorts 99: Black Mountain
Here at MM we share, chat, argue, bury and praise music on a pretty regular basis…like daily. So throughout the year, the Mackerel crew (Mrs Mackerel, Barry-Sean, Christy-Popper, Dr Roddy, Polly Pocket, Starbar, MM and others) keep their own ever-changing top tens ready for publication at the climax of the festive season. So here are MM’s ten favourite tunes from 2010 – no claims on … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 7, Mad Mackerel
So after much deliberation, head scratching, discussion, and more head scratching, we have MM’s favourite albums of 2010. And we choose our words very carefully here, because we would not presume them to be the best, only those that have given us the most pleasure and enjoyment, records that we have returned to again and again, and for whatever reason have captured a moment or … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Albums of the Year
Welcome to our longest ever post, and a whole bucketful of great songs. Last weekend, Barry-Sean came with me to the End of the Road Festival and outside of the musical orgy that is SxSW, we agreed it is the best festival we’ve ever had the pleasure of attending. In fact he’s been writing about it ever since. Here’s what he has to say…. Having … Continue reading The End of the Road Festival – A Review
Black Mountain release the second single from their much anticipated forthcoming album Wilderness Heart on 11th October. Its west-coast groove and soaring harmonies showing off an altogether more accessible side to the band; The Hair Song brings the band’s songwriting skills into sharp focus. A joyous and uplifting track? Watch it below… Pre-order the album here. Download Black Mountain – The Hair Song mp3 (from … Continue reading Black Mountain’s Hair Song Video
Here we are again. A round up of our favourite postings of the month. Twenty one outstanding songs from July plus three new ones to make the perfect mix tape. From folk to garage to stoner rock and summer pop it is all here for you. Download, burn to CD, play – groove! 1) Sharon Van Etten – Love More mp3 A slow burning, mesmerising … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: July
Some heavy rock is just too good to pass up. Black Mountain push all the right buttons with this, the second track and new single, to get released from their much anticipated forthcoming album Wilderness Heart. Even the track title calls up an era of stoned Hells Angels with straggly hair having fun on their Harleys while terrifying your mum. Marvellous. Pre-order the album from … Continue reading More from Black Mountain
Here is our regular monthly round up of 25 of the best tracks posted on Mad Mackerel in the past month, and three new gems too. That’s a more than decent mixtape sorted even if we were crap in the World Cup! The Futurebirds – Battle For Rome mp3 Glorious, up-tempo alt-country gem that recalls Neil Young at his finest Puro Instinct – California Shakedown … Continue reading MM’s Best Of The Month: June
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