On June 27th, the excellent Grass House will release A Cradle, A Short Breath as a follow-up to last November’s single Lazy Bones. In a conscious effort to avoid being type-cast in a dark or brooding vein, the song hints at the lighter side of the London group’s repertoire. Even so, it is still menacing enough to send most other indie bands screaming to their … Continue reading New Single From Grass House
One of the advantages of having a blog like this is being able to make up the rules as you go along, and today that means giving the limelight to our youngest Joe, who reaches the ripe old age of seven today. Now, we are all guilty of bias and of nepotism at times (and this is one of them), but I think you’d be … Continue reading Joe’s Birthday Mix
Now that we’ve had the top tens from all the Mad Mackerel contributors, we will give you a definitive overall top ten in a couple of days. Before that is our penultimate top ten list of the year – the favourite new bands and artists that have come our way in 2010 which was perhaps the hardest list of all to compile. So with honourable … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s 2010 Top Ten Series: No 9, Favourite New Artists
We gave you Grass House’s new single recently and they have followed this up with a new EP titled Ant Giant Ant. It is out on Holiday Club Recordings and for a limited time you can get the whole thing digitally for free here or can buy lovely 10″ vinyl here. The previously featured single Lazy Bones is on it, together with three more songs. We … Continue reading Grass House Release new EP
A while ago we posted about new band Grass House and their excellent debut EP Plough More Sky. In fact we said the lead track A Cockroach was a dark-hearted and sonic delight and so it was – proving to be one of our favourite songs of the year, and Joe’s bedtime track of choice…every single night. Now they have returned with an excellent new single … Continue reading New single from Grass House
As usual, here is our round-up of some of the best songs we’ve posted during April plus a couple of new ones. Thirty great songs all ready to go on one cracking playlist and impress your family and friends. Without further ado… Shabby Rogue – My Life As A Secret Agent mp3 (High octane, paranoia induced rock ‘n’ roll riffage) Kurt Vile – Invisibility Nonexistent … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: April
On May 3rd, Grass House will be releasing their debut EP Plough More Sky. We have been lucky enough to have had a preview and we’re liking it a lot – an awful lot. Although still in their infancy as a band they have already played gigs with Wet Dog, Dead Kids and MM faves The Sunderbans amongst others. With influences from Jacques Brel to Captain … Continue reading Grass House Debut EP – MM is impressed!
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