Noisetrade are offering a very nice free sampler featuring the Best of The American Songwriter sessions. It has thirty tracks including such MM faves as Joe Pug, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Vetiver, Justin Townes Earle and The White Buffalo amongst many others. There are a couple of choice tracks from it below, but just visit their Facebook page here and click on the Like button … Continue reading Nice Free Sampler From Noisetrade
We moved MM to WordPress in April 2010, after being one of the many blogs to get screwed by Google Blogspot. We noticed that this is our one thousandth post since that time and so we have marked the occasion (for such that it is for us) with an appropriately themed mix for your enjoyment. So, from the classic sound of Tenpole Tudor’s new wave … Continue reading One Thousand Posts – A Celebratory Mix!
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
Although we don’t often mention ‘news’ items we did just want to let you know that the wonderful Joe Pug will play his first UK headline show later this month at the Relentless Garage in London and will precede this with a couple of dates in Dublin and Glasgow. There are only a few tickets left for the London show so you’ll need to be … Continue reading Joe Pug’s UK Headline Show
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
Here is the best of our November posts, a perfect mix tape to kick off the festive seasons and a nice reminder before we all get immersed in all those end-of-year top tens/twenties/fifties etc. And as always a couple of new ones too. Twenty five great tracks. Enjoy. Download Outer Minds – Until You’re Dead mp3 Pristine nugget of 60s inspired garage rock, twangy rough-cut … Continue reading MM’s Best of the Month: November
It was the End of the Road festival that opened our eyes and ears to Joe Pug. If we’d heard Hymn 35 in time last year, it would most certainly have been a contender for our end of year top ten. It may also be reasonable to say that it was also the End of the Road Festival that truly opened Barry-Sean’s eyes and ears … Continue reading Joe Pug covers The Low Anthem
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
On Joe Pug’s album The Messenger is a song called Bury Me Far (From My Uniform) and in honour of Memorial Day in the USA he has made it available for free download. Visit his MySpace here. Buy The Messenger here. Download Joe Pug – Bury Me Far (From My Uniform) mp3 (from The Messenger) Continue reading Joe Pug gives up free download
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