Each week Popper, Joe Fish and me meet to discuss an album, rate it and pick our three best and one worst selection from the record. NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE RUST NEVER SLEEPS (1979) 8.5 Popper 7.0 Joe Fish 8.4 Mad Mackerel AVERAGE: 8.0 THREE TOP TRACKS 1 MY MY, HEY HEY (OUT OF THE BLUE) 2 POCAHONTAS 3 POWDERFINGER LEAST FAVOURITE SEDAN DELIVERY Continue reading Mad Mackerel Music Club # 2
Neil Young – Campaigner (Live, acoustic) Ty Segall – Class War (The Dils cover) Beach House – Alien Public Service Broadcasting – White Star Liner The Growlers – Problems III Matthew E. White – No Future In Our Frontman Tiny Ruins – Olympic Girls Drug Church – Unlicensed Hall Monitor J Mascis – Web So Dense Keston Cobblers’ Club – Siren … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
To celebrate Record Store Day, Blitzen Trapper are releasing a note-perfect live cover of Neil Young’s seminal Harvest album. This is their faithful, and reverent, cover of Heart of Gold. . Continue reading Blitzen Trapper Cover Neil Young
According to the WordPress stats, this is our 4,000th post since we were removed from the internet by the Stalinesque Google Blogspot in April 2010, and forced to start MM all over again. To celebrate we thought we would treat ourselves and post ten songs from prior to MM’s existence that helped shape our own musical landscape. A self-indulgent Desert Island discs if you will…from listening for … Continue reading Four Thousand Posts On MM
We’ve mentioned it a few times before, but if you’re not parting with $2 per month to access the daily Daytrotter sessions then more fool you. More fool you because, for example, you’ll have missed out on recent sessions from Boxer Rebellion, Slow Club, Nathaniel Rateliff, Avi Buffalo and Heartless Bastards, and you’ll have missed the excellent Wye Oak session from yesterday, that included this … Continue reading MM Shorts 123: Wye Oak’s Daytrotter Session
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