Fresh from attending their brilliant live show with Chris T Popper in Oxford last week, we now have the latest track to stream from Parquet Courts excellent new album Sunbathing Animal. This is the minimalist riffing of album opener Bodies Made Of. Superb. . Continue reading Parquet Courts – Bodies Made Of
We love Parquet Courts. We love Black & White. We love this video. Sunbathing Animal is out today. We love it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkW1wXGlU0. . Continue reading Video: Parquet Courts – Black & White
1. Sharon Van Etten – Your Love Is Killing Me 2. Parquet Courts – Instant Disassembly 3. Peter Matthew Bauer – Philadelphia Raga 4. Big Search – Role Reversal 5. Lydia Loveless – Mile High . . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
1. Sharon Van Etten – Every Time The Sun Comes Up 2. Parquet Courts – Black & White 3. Thee Tee Pees – Indian Bingo 4. Stagnant Pools – You Whir 5. Blessa – Unfurl . . . . . Continue reading Five Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
As well as releasing Sunbathing Animal as a single for Record Store Day, Parquet Courts have also announced their forthcoming album will carry the same title. Listen to the single/title track below – it is a stormer. The album is out in June. . . Continue reading Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
As well as our Top 100 tunes of the year that we’ve posted over the past few days, each of the MM contributors have put together their own lists. The fifth and final instalment is our own. 20. Colleen Green – Heavy Shit Totally infectious, stoned punk. . 19. Harmed Brothers – Love Song For The Assumed Mixing folk and bluegrass with a wistful twist … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Top Songs Of 2013
Part three of our favourite 100 tracks of 2013. Today we’re counting down from 50 – 26. 50 Hanni El Khatib – Nobody Move In Hanni El Khatib’s biog on Wikipedia he says that his “…music is for anyone who has ever been shot or hit by a train“. I think that this is a good way to describe this tune as it hits you … Continue reading MAD MACKEREL’S TOP TRACKS OF 2013: 50 – 26
Turn the speakers up to 11 – videos today come from the brilliant Parquet Courts and one of our favourite songs of the moment, You Got Me Wonderin’ Now and from heavy retro garage-pysch rockers Sleepy Sun for (another of our favourite songs of the moment) 11:32. We have longstanding MM stalwarts and fierce blues duo The Pack A.D.’s new video for Big Shot and finally … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Parquet Courts || Sleepy Sun || The Pack A.D. || Mikal Cronin
Our first visit to the brilliant Green Man Festival. Here are the twenty best things we heard, saw and discovered over the weekend. 1. The Parquet Courts live up to the hype Like the Ramones on speed, the four-piece transcended all the hype with the set of the weekend – a thrilling, occasionally ramshackle, breakneck excursion into punk, slacker pop and moshpit heaven, and in … Continue reading The Twenty Best Things We Heard, Saw, And Discovered At The Green Man Festival
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