Our final entry of the year highlighting the songs you really should have wrapped your earbuds around already this week. 1. Male Bonding – Falling 2. Menace Beach – Tastes Like Medicine 3. The Decemberists – The Wrong Year 4. Meat Wave – Mystery (Wipers cover) 5. Evans The Death – Don’t Laugh At My Angry Face 6. Modest Mouse – Lampshades On Fire . … Continue reading Six Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
For the penultimate time this year, here is our weekly round up of songs that you really should have wrapped your ears around by now. 1. Male Bonding – A Kick To The Face 2. Girlpool – Alone At The Show 3. Of Montreal – Bassem Sabry 4. Lady Lamb The Beekeeper – Billions Of Eyes 5. Dirty Dishes – Red Roulette 6. Gorgeous Bully – … Continue reading Seven Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Our usual round up of the very best of our August posts and some new tracks too. Dip in – every one a winner as they say. Download The Cabin Dogs – High Falls mp3 (from Midnight Trail) Invites you to kick off your boots, pour a stiff one and sit on the porch to watch the sun go down – a song for when you’re busy … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: August 2011
Here is the latest track to be released from melodic noise rockers Male Bonding’s second album, Endless Now which sees a release on Sub Pop at the end of this month. Tame The Sun is another excellent slice of punky power pop and follows the rather more lengthy Bones out of the traps. Download Male Bonding – Tame The Sun mp3 (from Endless Now) Download Male Bonding – Bones … Continue reading More From Male Bonding
Here is our regular Best of the month mix – more than twenty tracks of all shapes and sizes to get your ears into, plus a few new ones that we think you’ll love! So we’re off and running with… Download The Virgin Passages – Horizon mp3 (from Horizon) Euphoric, unhurried, hazy and hypnotic. Download St. Vincent – Kerosene (live) mp3 (Big Black cover) Visceral and stunning live cover … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: June 2011
Lo-fi hipsters Male Bonding are from the UK, and have recently signed to US indie legends Sub Pop. Their debut album is titled Nothing Hurts and early indications are that it is going to be a superior mix of reverb laden fuzzy pop and high velocity punk – that’s the same mix which is so common at the moment admittedly – but that which, to … Continue reading Mad Mackerel tries a little Male Bonding…
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