Fat Earthers -Letter Bomb
- Howe Gelb – A Thousand Kisses Deep (featuring M.Ward)
- The Chills – Bad Sugar
- Mount Hudson – Write A Book
- Yak -Fried
- Steve Gunn – Stonehurst Cowboy
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Part 2 of our rundown of our favourite tracks of the year. Today we have tracks 75 through to 51.
75 The Julie Ruin – Mr. So And So
74 Beach – Donuts
73 exmagician – Job Done
72 W.H. Lung – Inspiration
71 Wilco – If I Ever Was A Child
70 Dune Rats – Bullshit
69 Meatbodies – Valley Girl
68 Conor Oberst – Gossamer Thin
67 Big Thief – Masterpiece
66 Elizabeth Cook – Tabitha Tuders’ Mama
65 Goat – Union Of Mind And Soul
64 Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me
63 Lucy Dacus – Strange Torpedo
62 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – People Vultures
61 Golden Suits – Is It Wrong
60 Cass McCombs – In A Chinese Alley
59 Wooden Indian Burial Ground – Spazz Pony
58 Kevin Morby – Dorothy
57 Las Kellies – Celebrate Life
56 Cold Pumas – Severed Estates
55 BRONCHO – Fantasy Boys
54 Parquet Courts – Berlin Got Blurry
53 The Felice Brothers – Triumph ’73
52 Gooch Palms – Ask Me Why
51 M. Ward – Girl From Conejo Valley
Check out tracks 100-76 here.
Follow @madmackerelAfter a week away, we’re back with eight tracks selected from the past week and covering everything from hardcore to goth-pop by way of some shoegaze and a classic cover.
Enjoy.
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It has been far too long since we posted any videos. We’re righting that wrong today with an excellent collection culled from our in-box – some old(er), some new, some borrowed and some blue(s).
So sit back, relax and enjoy musical films from Big Thief, Great American Canyon Band, Fidlar, M.Ward, On Dead Waves, All Them Witches, Impulsive Hearts, Bleached, Traams, and Holly Miranda.
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Our penultimate round up of the year of the best of the week’s new releases. This week eight tracks from indie rock to honky tonk to folk to psych rock.
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A new month, a new free digital mix from Insound available for a tweet, e-mail or Facebook Like.
This month features seventeen quality tracks from, amongst others, Beach House, Crocodiles, DZ Deathrays, Eternal Summers, John Maus, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, Races, and Zambri.
Click here to get the whole thing, but be quick as it is only available for a week or so, or check out a couple of our favourites below.
Download M. Ward – Primitive Girl mp3 (from Insound April Mixtape)
Download Father John Misty – Hollywood Forever mp3 (from Insound April Mixtape)
Follow @madmackerelFollowing on from our Friday mix yesterday, here are a few tunes to stream, listen to and investigate further should you feel the need. We think you probably will.
First up is the new single, 17, from Young & Lost Club’s indie alt-rockers Being There.
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Oxford’s latest buzzworthy band are The Black Hats – lots of energy, a definite pop edge, big chorus hooks, and smart lyrical rhythms. Listen to Kick In The Doors. It comes from forthcoming mini-album Austerity for the Hoi Polloi.
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Restless Fugitive is the new single from Willy Mason, it comes from this new album, the first in five years. If you like it, you can grab it as a free download from his Facebook page here.
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Similarly with spacey psychedelia aficionados Spiritualized who return with their first new material in four years. This is the nine minute epic Hey Jane from Sweet heart Sweet Light, the new album.
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We have a new track for you from the Jay Farrar (Son Volt, Gob Iron, Uncle Tupelo), Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), Anders Parker (Varnaline, Gob Iron) and Yim Yames (My Morning Jacket, Monsters of Folk) supergroup and their Woody Guthrie project. This time the track is fronted by Yim Yames, and is called My Revolutionary Mind.
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Rusty Bear were on 6 Music’s Breakfast Show on Wednesday morning. Their sound is one of gorgeously brooding indie folk/pop and is well worth a few minutes investment from your ears. It comes from debut album From Source To Sea, available via Mollusc Records from March 26th.
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Django Django have been a band we’ve liked since Scottish Kate discovered them for us. Their self-titled debut album of catchy surf rock, psychedelia and skittering electronics has picked up a lot of plaudits and this is another track from it, the throbbing Storm.
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Talking of buzz, it has been likewise for gloomy, brooding UK indie rockers 2:54 This is their new single You’re Early, out on Fiction on April 9th.
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M.Ward is now solo in every sense of the word and returns with new album A Wasteland Companion in April. This taster, Primitive Girl, seems a marked step up in quality compared with some more recent offerings and bodes well.
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Lastly Adventure Galley ratchet up the tempo with the excellent sonic rock jam Weekend Lovers – think MGMT doing battle with Arcade Fire in a room full of amphetamines.
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