Screaming Females – I’ll Make You Sorry Car Seat Headrest – Fallen Horses  (Smash Mouth cover) Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo Wavves & Culture Abuse – Big Cloud Mount Eerie – Tintin In Tibet Speedy Ortiz – Lucky 88 Wye Oak – It Was Not Natural Rixe – La Cle Melvins – Stop Moving To Florida Table Scraps – Lyin’ Thru Yer Teeth Father John Misty … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
You know the score – a sweep up of some of the week’s best new releases, new tunes and new artists. This week we have no less than eleven tracks for you including The Avett Brothers, Left Lane Cruiser, The Devil Makes Three, Deerhoof and plenty more. Dive in… The Avett Brothers – Satan Pulls The Strings Band Of Horses – Barrel House Holly Miranda … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Our favourite indie-popsters, Freedom Fry have shared a Christmas song. Oh Santa (Bad World) brings a few darker clouds to their usual blend of sunshine melodies, and is a very welcome addition to our musical advent of festively themed tracks. Enjoy… Continue reading Festive Fayre (10): Freedom Fry
Our regular collection of the best of this week’s new releases for you including a couple of tasty cover versions. Freakwater – The Asp And The Albatross Quilt – Eliot St. The Brainstems – Simple Joys Freedom Fry – 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins cover) Coves – Stormy Coke Weed – Malocchio Noun – Loveblood Little May – Skeletons (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover) Kite Base – Miracle … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Our second collection of ten new tunes for you to spin and decide… hit or miss? The Yawpers – Deacon Brodie (RIYL: Biker blues, MC5, Blue Cheer) . Tedo Stone – By Your Side (RIYL: Fuzzy guitar rock, T Rex, Dinosaur Jr) . Alberta Cross – Ghost Of Santa Fe (RIYL: Southern rock, My Morning Jacket, Crazy Horse) . Flora Cash – This Breeze (RIYL: Folk, … Continue reading Nickel In The Jukebox (Vol 2)
It doesn’t matter when you’re 21 … By our reckoning no one does infectious, feelgood indie-pop like Freedom Fry, the combination of French songstress Marie Seyrat and Michigan-born musical chameleon Bruce Driscoll (also of Blondfire). With each release they up the ante and on irresistible new single 21 they have added in audience vocals and claps from their recent residency at the Echo in LA. Listen below, and let some sunshine … Continue reading New Freedom Fry Single
No one does sunny indie-pop quite like Freedom Fry. Shaky Ground is their first single of 2015 and is another gem – upbeat, infectious and filled with a classic “Hey Na Na Na” chorus. Guaranteed to dispel the clouds and cheer up a January Sunday morning. Give it a spin. . Continue reading Freedom Fry – Shaky Ground
American French duo, Freedom Fry have unveiled their video for The Wilder Mile, another unashamedly summery, and catchy, indie-pop gem. They do this stuff better than anyone else we know. Watch here. . . . Continue reading New Video: Freedom Fry – The Wilder Mile
We loved Freedom Fry’s track Summer In The City – infectious, indie pop that almost gatecrashed Chris T Poppers Top Ten of 2012, so it is a pleasure to have the French/American duo back with two new tracks. One song is called Home, an ode to LA, and the other is a cover of Scarborough Fair. Stream them below or head over to Bandcamp to download. … Continue reading MM Shorts 581: Freedom Fry
So the waiting is over, and here are the first twenty entries in our Top 100 of 2012, part of MM’s much expanded Best of the Year review. Over the next five days we will reveal our favourite songs and those of our contributors: Mrs Mackerel, Christy Popper, Barry-Sean, Dr Roddy, Polly Pocket, Middle Sprat, Starbie, and Toy Steve. These are not the most “popular” … Continue reading 2012 MAD MACKEREL’S 100 FAVOURITE SONGS PART 1: 100 – 81
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