Nine More Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

The Dodos – Center Of Cass McCombs – Noise Suite For The Green Party Deer Tick – Hey! Yeah! Kurt Vile – Learning To Fly  (Tom Petty cover) The Smoking Trees – Who Is The Villain? American Pleasure Club – Oranges Magic Potion – Foamy Lace Girlpool – Lucy’s Strange Ranger – The Wires                     Continue reading Nine More Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Father John Misty – So I’m Growing Old On Magic Mountain (Live at Third Man Records) Holly Miranda – I Will Survive (FM4 Session Live In Vienna)  (Gloria Gaynor cover) Holly Miranda – A Little Piece Cloud Nothings – Leave Him Now Harmony Rockets with special guest Peter Walker – Atropos Marianne Faithfull feat. Nick Cave – The Gypsy Faerie Queen Cat Power – Stay … Continue reading Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

No less than thirteen corking new tracks this week from the brilliant hypnotic post-punk thrum of FEWS to the infectious indie pop of Hater by way of a Ramones inspired Colleen Green, wiry art-punk from Public Practice, fuzzy urgency from Ron Gallo, raucous arena ready rock from We Were Promised Jetpacks, and sunburnt, pastoral psych from The Smoking Trees. And lots more besides… Do we … Continue reading Thirteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Terry – Oh Helen The Dodos – Forum Colleen Green – Let Go Marissa Nadler – Blue Vapor Art Brut – Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out Tiny Ruins – How Much Dilly Dally – Sober Motel DeVotchKa – Angels Mitski – Two Slow Dancers                   Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Eight Songs You Should Have Heard… Last Week

The trip to deposit our eldest at University meant we couldn’t get this ready in time at the weekend. So belatedly as he discovers the joys of student freedom, here are our quick picks from the rest of the best of the new releases last week. Enjoy (nearly) new tracks from the likes of Kim Gordon, Purling Hiss, La Sera, Damaged Bug and a fine … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard… Last Week

Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Here are our selections of new tunes from this week that you really ought to have heard by now. 1. Sleater-Kinney – Surface Envy 2. The Soft Moon – Black 3. Elephant Micah – Slow Time Vultures 4. Strand of Oaks – Alex Chilton (Replacements cover) 5. The Dodos – Goodbyes And Endings . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

The latest instalment of our regular feature of songs you really should have wrapped your ears around in the past seven days…this week has a bumper crop of eight cracking new tunes. 1. Father John Misty – Bored In The USA 2. The Decemberists – Make You Better 3. The Dodos – Competition 4. Emmy The Great – Swimming Pool 5. The Districts – 4th And … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums Of 2013 (Part 1 50-31)

Perhaps unusually, this year seemed a better one for albums rather than individual tracks with some fabulous releases over the past twelve months. There were many contenders for our end of year list, but here, after much deliberation, is Part One of our favourites of 2013. 50 Daughn Gibson – Me Moan . 49 The Men – New Moon . 48 Pissed Jeans – Honeys … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums Of 2013 (Part 1 50-31)