Wooden Shjips – Already Gone Oh Sees – Overthrown Israel Nash – Rolling On Goon – Choke Throat Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood – Save Me Sons of Bill – Easier (feat. Molly Parden) Liars – Liquorice Gurr – Hot Summer Mommy Long Legs – Bridezilla Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We’re counting down our favourite songs of the past ten years. Here are numbers 70-61. 70 Water Liars – Swannanoa (2015) A melancholy story of searching and loss, of heroin and girls with stutters, of cowardice and looking death in the face. No one does this stuff as well as Water Liars. 69 Goodnight, Texas – Jesse Got Trapped In A Coalmine (2012) … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 9)
The new Liars album will be called Mess and will see a release on the 25th March. To prepare the way, the band have shared Mess On A Mission and sees them embracing a full-on electronic onslaught underpinned by an almost primal fury. Stream it below and watch the trailer for the new album too. . Continue reading Liars – Mess On A Mission
Begin the week with videos from Liars, and Folly & The Hunter with Moth In The Porchlight from their Wood & Wires Session (grab a free download of Ghost too). From Cobalt Cranes we have a weird LA road trip and lastly another video from decker for Killing Me, their truly heart-wrenching song about tumultuous relationships. . . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Liars || Folly & The Hunter || Cobalt Cranes || decker
The latest copy of Mojo has just dropped through our letterbox and the free cover disc is another in their series of classic albums re-imagined. This time it is Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 classic Rumours with the eleven tracks covered by artists including The Besnard Lakes, Dylan LeBlanc, Yeasayer, Julia Holter, Dutch Uncles, The Liars, The Staves, The Phoenix Foundation and more. Mojo is available from … Continue reading Mojo’s Free Cover Disc – Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours Revisited
The wonderful Daytrotter recently announced their 2,000th session and managed to get none other than Country music legend Glen Campbell in to record it, followed swiftly by a new session from the brilliant Delta Spirit. For those that don’t know Daytrotter sessions are typically four songs in length, recorded live to quarter-inch tape in a matter of a couple hours, with no overdubs. They are then made available … Continue reading Daytrotter Reaches 2,000
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s post about the new album from A Place To Bury Strangers comes a similar announcement from another of our favourite experimental noiseniks, Liars. Titled WIXIW (pronounced “wish you”), the 11-track album will be preceded by a single, No.1 Against The Rush. Listen to it by heading to their Facebook page here. Continue reading MM Shorts 132: New Album From Liars
So after much deliberation, head scratching, discussion, and more head scratching, we have MM’s favourite albums of 2010. And we choose our words very carefully here, because we would not presume them to be the best, only those that have given us the most pleasure and enjoyment, records that we have returned to again and again, and for whatever reason have captured a moment or … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Albums of the Year
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