Now the dust has settled on the last fucked-up year, the inestimable Dr Roddy is the first to share his favourite tunes that saw him through lockdowns 1 and 2, and are probably sustaining him right now in lockdown 3, along with those Breakfast Club and Mannequin re-runs… So without further ado… 10 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Automation With that guitar mantra … Continue reading Dr Roddy’s Favourite Tunes of 2020
Here is the final part of this year’s countdown of our favourite tunes of 2020. Many thanks to MM stalwarts Chris T Popper and Dr Roddy (whose personal selections will come in the next couple of days) and to anyone who has read / listened and discovered something new in a year that truly sucked. Happy New Year and here’s to a better 2021. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Tracks Of 2020: Part 4 (25-1)
Australia’s marvellous King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are soon to release their fifteenth studio album – Infest The Rats’ Nest – on August 16 (ATO Records). Released just six months after the uplifting blues-rock boogie of Fishing For Fishes, and drawing on the mid/late 1980s golden period of thrash metal – Metallica and Slayer, certainly, but also lesser-cited bands such as Exodus, Kreator and Overkill … Continue reading King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Organ Farmer Video
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Fishing For Fishies The Head And The Heart – Missed Connection Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Feel The Sun The UV Club – Mr Blame Lucille Furs – Paint Euphrosyne Blue Frankie Cosmos – Dancing Los Wilds – Muñequita de Trapo Grim Streaker – Today New York UV … Continue reading Eight Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
For a band who released five albums in 2017, over 12-months without anything new seems like an eternity, but Melbourne’s freewheeling 7-piece, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, have ended their musical drought in some style with Cyboogie, a stomping near seven minute electro-shuffle that filters all that’s great about about the band through the Moroder-filter. Freak out to it below. Continue reading King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Cyboogie
Welcome to numbers 120 through to 101 of our favourite tunes of the past ten years… 120 Black Mountain – Let Spirits Ride (2010) Who cares if the riff is nicked from another song, or if it sounds like 1972. I don’t when it as good as this. Pure riffola magic. 119 Faith Healer – No Car (2015) Kicking up a meaty riff … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 5)
Titus Andronicus – Number One (In New York) Dream Wife – Hey Heartbreaker Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Echo Moon Duo – Jukebox Babe (Alan Vega cover) Mind Spiders – Furies Sonny Smith – Burnin’ Up (featuring Angel Olsen) Corey Flood – Feel Okay Fidlar – Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle (Nirvana cover) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Muddy Water … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The third of our personal countdowns… 20 Metz – Drained Lake Angular, ear-piercing and provocative. Imagine the clatter of early Sonic Youth brought up to warp speed. 19 Cabbage – Fraudulent Artist Cabbage’s Extended Play of Cruelty was our EP of the year by a country mile – a collection of brilliantly acerbic, witty and spiky tunes. Fraudulent Artist is a furious, up-tempo rant that … Continue reading MM’s Best of 2017: Mad Mackerel
Our second personal countdown comes from long time top twenty stalwart Chris T Popper, a fish of fine musical taste and the Steve Bould of Mad Mackerel. 20 Nervous Dater – Bad Spanish 19 The Moonlandingz – Black Hanz 18 Meat Wave – The Incessant 17 Roadhouses – Drinkin’ 16 Ty Segall – Big Man 15 Public Serivce Broadcasting – … Continue reading MM’s Best of 2017: Chris T Popper
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