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The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 3)

The third part of our epic countdown of our favourite songs of the past ten years. 160 The Pink Mountaintops – North Hollywood Microwaves (2014)   Filthy, snarling, primal rock’n’roll featuring some pornographic rapping from Annie Hardy (ex-Giant Drag). A case of the bite being much worse than the bark.   159 Calexico – Two Silver Trees (2008) Atmospheric and relaxed, Two Silver Trees meanders … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 3)

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Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

Dr Dog – Go Out Fighting Simone Felice – The Projector Vintage Crop – Gerald Part 2 Drinks – Real Outside The Low Anthem – Give My Body Back Bonny Doon – A Lotta Things Dan Michaelson – Sand Beach House – Lemon Glow Swampmeat Family Band – Needle & Thread Eleanor Friedberger – In Between Stars Holly Miranda – To Be Loved     … Continue reading Eleven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Live Review: The Low Anthem (Oxford Academy)

Apparently the Low Anthem now play what they describe as “multi-dimensional future folk“. Another description for it would be “self-indulgent shit of the very worst kind“. And the typewriter is not a musical instrument. Fact. Many left before the end. So here are some songs back from when they were a really, really good band. Needless to say they didn’t play any of these bar a totally … Continue reading Live Review: The Low Anthem (Oxford Academy)

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Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

A bumper week for new tunes, many with an Americana flavour,  including songs from The Head & The Heart, Lydia Loveless, Frankie Lee, The Low Anthem and Band Of Horses. We have a tasty REM cover from The Districts as well, and the return of Beck and of Montreal amongst twelve new tracks for you to delve into. Enjoy! Band Of Horses – Whatever, Wherever The Head & The … Continue reading Twelve Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

It can never be seen as a bad week when you have brand new songs from Okkervil River and the Low Anthem to share. And not only that, we have seven other new tunes for you as well from the likes of Father John Misty, Psychic Ills and The Gotobeds. Dig in. Okkervil River – Okkervil River R.I.P. The Low Anthem – The Pepsi Moon Father John Misty – … Continue reading Nine Songs You Should Have Heard This Week

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Mad Mackerel The Last Five Years – Polly Pocket Picks Her Favourites

Believe it or not, Mad Mackerel has been around for more than five years now. During that time we’ve posted more than 4,000 times, and offered more than 5,000 songs for your listening pleasure. And more than three quarters of a million people have paid MM a visit during our lifetime on Google’s (godawful) blogspot and since April 2010 on WordPress. We asked some of … Continue reading Mad Mackerel The Last Five Years – Polly Pocket Picks Her Favourites

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Mrs Mackerel’s Last TFI Friday (11th January)

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu … you know the rest. I’m off to skip over the mountains, Swiss Outpost, but I do promise to Skype… Anyway (surely one of my favourite refrains?), it’s a New Year and time for me to bid goodbye to TFI and my Friday night soubriquet. With a few gig dates already booked for the months ahead, I may get … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s Last TFI Friday (11th January)

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Free Halloween Mix 2012

Following on from our mixes from 2010 and 2011, here is another set of freakishly macabre tunes for you to download and scare off the trick or treaters… Download Little Wings – Halloween 2020 mp3 (from PIAPTK Sampler Fall 2011) Download Deer Tick – The Ghost mp3 (from Daytrotter Session) Download Royal Trux – The Spectre mp3 (from Cats And Dogs) Download The Low Anthem – … Continue reading Free Halloween Mix 2012

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No Direction Home Festival: A Review

No Direction Home Festival  ||  Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire  ||  8-10 June 2012 The omens were not good for the inaugural No Direction Home music festival, setting out in heavy rain that only got heavier as the traffic got slower the further north I went. However, despite the slate grey skies and constant brake lights of the M1, a journey of over 5 hours was rewarded … Continue reading No Direction Home Festival: A Review

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No Direction Home Festival: Free Mix

As you read this I will probably still be speeding northwards through the torrential rain on the M1 heading for Sherwood Forest and the inaugural No Direction Home music festival. Having spent the last two years happily enjoying the fantastic End of the Road festival, my plans were scuppered for a hat-trick by a sneaky move in dates making it clash with our first overseas … Continue reading No Direction Home Festival: Free Mix

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