75 Sleaford Mods – Moptop 74 Silver Torches – If I Reach 73 Idles – Divide And Conquer 72 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Rattlesnake 71 King Krule – Dum Surfer 70 Naomi Punk – Chapter II 69 The Reptaliens – If You Want 68 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – French Press 67 Ron Gallo … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Tracks Of The Year 75 – 51
Widowspeak – Harvest Moon  (Neil Young cover) Wilco – Dynamite My Soul Kal Marks – Adventure The Staves & yMusic – The Way Is Read Ty Segall – My Lady’s On Fire Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night Johanna Warren – Here To Tell Angel Olsen – Sans Dama Scout – Toothache The Liminanas – Shadow People (featuring Emmanuelle Seigner) … Continue reading Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
Lucy Rose has announced details of a new single, her first through Communion Records. Floral Dresses strips her music right back to where it started, harbouring her fragile voice and acoustic guitar, and as an added bonus it also features the exquisite harmonies of The Staves. Listen below. Continue reading Lucy Rose – Floral Dresses
So many good new tunes released this week – fourteen and counting – that we’ve had to split them into two posts. Here are the first seven including a brilliant new single from the UK’s new saviour of indie guitar rock, Cabbage. Like a cross between Fat White Family, The Fall, and the Amazing Snakeheads. We have the new single from Samantha Crain’s upcoming album … Continue reading Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week (Part 1)
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
The latest copy of Mojo has just dropped through our letterbox and the free cover disc is another in their series of classic albums re-imagined. This time it is Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 classic Rumours with the eleven tracks covered by artists including The Besnard Lakes, Dylan LeBlanc, Yeasayer, Julia Holter, Dutch Uncles, The Liars, The Staves, The Phoenix Foundation and more. Mojo is available from … Continue reading Mojo’s Free Cover Disc – Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours Revisited
In addition to the Wilderness Olympic medal awards handed out by youngest sprat (see Mrs Mackerel’s post here) Saturday at the festival was another day of glorious sunshine, bizarre moments (badminton matches joined table tennis, the official skinny dipping world record attempt, miming cats and much much more) and a stellar musical line-up. The timeless, beautiful harmonies of The Staves set everyone up perfectly in … Continue reading Live Review: Wilderness Festival (Day 2)
It was with an open mind and one clog firmly on the accelerator that I journeyed with Big Sair on Tuesday evening to watch The Staves at the rather wonderful venue of The Tabernacle in London’s Notting Hill. What I might call, I decided on reflection, the perfect Mrs Mackerel gig destination. A good start. And we even made it in time. The Staves are … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s Live Review: The Staves
More trains this week, but this time I’m on one. The 12.06 from Oxford to be precise, wending it’s way slowly northwards, leaving MM in charge of the home fixtures. I’ll be stopping off at Darlo to check in with Harry, before docking in the land of MON to see my Ma. It’s a bit packed underneath my wing at the moment. It might be … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (27th April)
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