Day four of five – reaching the top of the MM charts for 2014. Here are our favourites from 40 down to 21. 40 Natural Child – Dancin’ With Wolves . 39 Dead Fingers – Twisted . 38 Alt J – Left Hand Free . 37 Screaming Females – Ripe . 36 Sleaford Mods – Tiswas . 35 Sun Kil Moon – Dogs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fm25YRaZP0 . … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Songs Of 2014: 40 -21
Fresh from a wonderful new Daytrotter session, The Felice Brothers have unveiled their video for Lion, which we have previously streamed on MM. It comes from Favorite Waitress, undoubtedly one of our albums of the year. . . Continue reading New Video: The Felice Brothers – Lion
The longest day has come and gone, and halfway through the year we are. It seemed a good point to reflect and share thirty of our favourite albums of 2014 so far, and so here they are, in strictly alphabetical order of course… . The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads . Amen Dunes – Love . Avers – Empty Light . Dan Baker – Pistol In … Continue reading Favourite Albums of 2014 (So Far)
1. The Felice Brothers – Lion 2. Woods – Tambourine Light 3. Bad History Month – The Imaginary Tone Of My Own Voice Talking Shit 4. JJ – All White Everything 5. Gulp – Seasoned Sun . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Previously we’ve just offered Best of the Month postings with downloads, but that excludes so many quality songs we’ve decided to just post our favourite tracks – irrespective of whether they are free to download or not. If you like them add them to your Spotify playlists or do the old fashioned thing and download them from iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever. Anyway, with a bit … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Months: March – May (Part 1)
Awesome band. Awesome song. Awesome video. . . Continue reading Video: The Felice Brothers – Cherry Licorice
At last we have a first taste from the Felice Brothers forthcoming record Favorite Waitress. Appropriately enough it is called Cherry Licorice. It is a classic ragged, uptempo rocker that is sure to become a guaranteed live sing-a-long as couplets like “all the lady and gents, are covered in excrement”, and “the teacher slit my wrists, for every class I missed” are destined for a roaring … Continue reading At Last…New From The Felice Brothers… MM Rejoices
Favorite Waitress will be released by the Felice Brothers on June 9th in the UK and Europe and June 18th in North America. Here is a video trailer with song clips from our most anticipated record of the year… . Here they are covering Harvest Moon…any excuse to post something! Continue reading Felice Brothers – Favorite Waitress Album Trailer
The Felice Brothers & Willy Mason | Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London | 30 May 2013 Afterwards, as I drove the motorway miles home from the capital, the Twitter feeds awash with “best gig ever” messages, I was thinking that, in many ways, The Felice Brothers remind me of The Clash. Ian and Jimmy Felice, a rustic Strummer and Jones feeding from each other and the … Continue reading Live Review: The Felice Brothers Deliver The Greatest Show On Earth
To finish off our favourites of the year, here are numbers thirty to sixteen of the albums we have most enjoyed in 2012. Don’t forget to check back for our 100 Favourite Tunes and the MM contributor’s best of lists too. 30 Joe Pug – The Great Despiser a 29 David Cronenberg’s Wife – Don’t Wait To Be Hunted To Hide a 28 Band Of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums of 2012 Part 1: 30-16
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