Nashville crooner Nicole Atkins, has shared her take on the Guns N’ Roses ballad, November Rain and enlisted the assistance of MM fave, the gravel voiced Mark Lanegan to turn it into a rather special duet. The result is a gorgeous, sprawling country reimaging of the rock n’ roll classic. Have a listen. Continue reading Nicole Atkins Covers Guns N’ Roses With The Help Of Mark Lanegan
T. Hardy Morris – Homemade Bliss Whispertown – Never Felt Young Phil Cook – Another Mother’s Son Devendra Banhart – Shown And Told An Horse – Get Out Somehow River Whyless – Darkness In Mind Ty Segall & White Fence – Good Boy Neko Case – Curse Of The I-5 Corridor (feat. Mark Lanegan) Fucked Up – High Rise (Trainspotters cover) Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Our final personal list of the year is from the fairest, and finest, of fishes… Mrs Mackerel. 2017: probably a year when I’ve listened to the least new music in recent times, so this is very much a short list in all senses. Life – and death – gets in the way sometimes. 10 PINS – Serve the Rich It’s no surprise that Jamie Hince … Continue reading MM’s Best of 2017: Mrs Mackerel
30 Meat Wave – The Incessant 29 L.A. Witch – L.A. Witch 28 Oh Sees – Orc 27 Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now 26 Deer Tick – Deer Tick Vol. 1 25 Ty Segall – Ty Segall 24 Public Service Broadcasting – Public Service Broadcasting 23 Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger In The Alps 22 Alvvays … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Albums Of The Year
25 The Moonlandingz – Black Hanz 24 FEWS – La Guardia 23 The Coathangers – Captain’s Dead 22 Cherry Glazerr – Nurse Ratched 21 Beaches – Void 20 Lo Tom – Covered Wagon 19 Trevor Sensor – High Beams 18 Mark Lanegan – Beehive 17 Sun Seeker – Won’t Keep Me Up At Night 16 … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Tracks Of The Year 25-1
This week we have collected ten cracking tunes from the past seven days of new releases. 1. Mark Lanegan & Beth Orton – Your Kisses Burn (Marc Almond & Nico cover) 2. Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin’ 3. Ghetto Ghouls – Hezbollah 4. Nathaniel Rateliff – Look It Here 5. Blossoms – Blown Rose 6. Chelsea Wolfe – Grey Days 7. Mild High Club – Undeniable … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
We are very much looking forward to Mark Lanegan’s covers album, Imitations, due out on the 17th September. It includes his versions and rewordings of songs ranging from Andy Williams standards to a Bond theme classic to the great John Cale to more modern offerings from Nick Cave and Chelsea Wolfe. We’re suspecting eclectic isn’t going to come close to describing it. For now we have … Continue reading Mark Lanegan’s Imitations
Perennial Mrs M fave Mark Lanegan is nothing if not prolific. Following his solo album last year and collaborations in recent times with Moby, Queens of the Stone Age, Duke Garwood, Isobel Campbell, and Soulsavers to name but a few, he has now announced the release of a covers album, Imitations, in September. The first taste comes in the shape of John Cale’s I’m Not The … Continue reading Mark Lanegan To Release Covers Album
Watch musical films from the ever wonderful Staves with their cover of Keaton Henson’s In The Morning, that features the man himself, the Moby & Mark Lanegan collaboration for last Saturday’s Record Store Day, some soulful, windswept folk from Daughters of Davis, and to finish an epic, hazy, nine minute psychedelic road trip from Electric Eye with Tangerine the first single from their debut album Pick-up, … Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Staves || Moby & Mark Lanegan || Daughters Of Davis || Electric Eye
A few days ago we posted If I Were A Carpenter, the Smoke Fairies contribution to the forthcoming Tim Hardin tribute album, Reason To Believe. Here is a second track from the album, this time it is MM fave Mark Lanegan’s take on Red Balloon. Have a listen. Continue reading MM Shorts 303: More From The Tim Hardin Tribute Album
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