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The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 7)

Our favourite 200 songs of the past ten years… numbers 90 – 81. 90 Great American Canyon Band – Undertow (2016)   An epic of yearning Americana and cinematic, shoegazing guitars that combine to stunning effect.   89 Henry’s Funeral Shoe – Stranger Dig (2009)   Raucous mix of heavy rock and psychedelic blues. Heavy drumming – check, big riff – check – rough vocals … Continue reading The Top 200 – Mad Mackerel’s favourite songs of the last ten years (Part 7)

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Mad Mackerel The Last Five Years – Dr Roddy Looks Back

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 – Dr Roddy Looks Back

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New Single From Mummy Short Arms

The skewed, surreal and sometimes insane racket created by Mummy Short Arms received a lot of love from MM in 2011 and made it onto a couple of our contributors end of year best of lists for their debut single Cigarette Smuggling. Coming across like a Beefheart for the digital age, vocalist James Allen howls and growls like a cross between Frank Black and Leonard Cohen and that, … Continue reading New Single From Mummy Short Arms

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MM’s 2011 Top Ten Series: No 4 Dr Roddy

With probably the longest entry of 2011 we give the floor to regular MM contributor and top ten compiler…Dr Roddy. Well it seems to be that time of year again. I always spend 340 days looking forward to doing this and 25 agonising over it. This year especially though, as I think there has been a bumper harvest of great songs. When I looked at … Continue reading MM’s 2011 Top Ten Series: No 4 Dr Roddy

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MM’s 2011 Top Ten Series: No 2 Banner

For the second of our ‘guest’ top ten posts we are pleased to welcome the finger-choppin’ Banner to the roster with his first contribution to the end of year best of lists. “It’s been a great year musically and especially as this year I became a dad. I’d like to thank Doctor Roddy and Chris T Popper for their steady supply of CDs this year … Continue reading MM’s 2011 Top Ten Series: No 2 Banner

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New Single From Mummy Short Arms

A while ago we posted the debut single, Cigarette Smuggling, from the marvellously named Mummy Short Arms, an off-kilter, woozy slice of surreal indie rock. The Glasgow based band have announced the release of their second single, a maverick slice of melody entitled Change. The influences remain, spanning Captain Beefheart, the Velvet Underground and Tom Waits. It is out on the 14th November on limited … Continue reading New Single From Mummy Short Arms

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Introducing…Mummy Short Arms

Great name! Mummy Short Arms release their debut single, Cigarette Smuggling, on 30th May via Flowers In The Dustbin. It is a seriously warped slice of woozy, off-kilter indie that defies description, but flat out demands your attention. Imagine Captain Beefheart fighting with Salvador Dali with a full set of musical instruments and a goodly pile of magic mushrooms… If anything, the b-side, Searching For … Continue reading Introducing…Mummy Short Arms

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