First Aid Kit – Fireworks No Age – Drippy Alela Diane – Émigré’ Calexico – Voices In The Field Olden Yolk – Takes One To Know One Craig Finn – Fault Lines (Mountain Goats cover) Ty Segall – The Main Pretender The Orwells – Vanilla The Soft Moon – It Kills Graham Coxon – Falling Continue reading Ten (Count ’em) Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Time for our latest selection of tasty musical films. Sit back and check out no less than ten new videos from TOY, Gazebos, Desert Planes, Howe Gelb, Chambers, OhBoy!, Einar Stray Orchestra, Underground Youth, The Orwells and Spectres. Continue reading Video Round Up
No less than ten songs for you this week including the return of The Shins, a brilliant new protest song from Kevin Morby as well as new tunes from The Orwells, Futurebirds, Thee Oh Sees, Horse Thief and a tasty cover from Hinds. We also have our first official seasonal posting – slightly dubiously as it is still October – but it is She & Him so … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
The Orwells have shared a new song, Buddy, their first material since the release of Disgraceland. It’s a quick (and we mean that – it is 86 seconds long!) window into what we can expect from their forthcoming album, due early 2017. Listen below. Continue reading The Orwells – Buddy
Following our countdown of favourite songs of the year, here is part one of MM’s selection of the forty albums we most enjoyed throughout 2014. 40 The Orwells – Disgraceland . 39 Iceage – Plowing Into The Field Of Love 38 The Cult Of Dom Keller – The Second Bardo . 37 Mark Lanegan Band – Phantom Radio . 36 Hamilton Leithauser – Black Hours … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Favourite Albums Of 2014 (Part 1)
The longest day has come and gone, and halfway through the year we are. It seemed a good point to reflect and share thirty of our favourite albums of 2014 so far, and so here they are, in strictly alphabetical order of course… . The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads . Amen Dunes – Love . Avers – Empty Light . Dan Baker – Pistol In … Continue reading Favourite Albums of 2014 (So Far)
Watch brand new videos from sloppy, urgent punk revisionists Ghetto Ghouls, dark stoner rockers Young Widows and raucous up and comers The Orwells. . . . Continue reading New Videos: Ghetto Ghouls || Young Widows || The Orwells
Previously we’ve just offered Best of the Month postings with downloads, but that excludes so many quality songs we’ve decided to just post our favourite tracks – irrespective of whether they are free to download or not. If you like them add them to your Spotify playlists or do the old fashioned thing and download them from iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever. Anyway, with a bit … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Months: March – May (Part 1)
We love Southern Comfort the film, we love Southern Comfort the drink, and now we love Southern Comfort the Orwells song. It ha been around for a while, but this is the first studio stream of the swaggering, infectious lead off track from the much anticipated debut Disgraceland, out on the 3rd June. Listen here. . Continue reading The Orwells – Southern Comfort
The Orwells have unveiled the video for their fizzing new single The Righteous One, which is taken from their upcoming album due in the summer. Dark. Furious. Frenzied. Watch it / stream it below. . . Continue reading MM Shorts 514: The Orwells
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