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Introducing…Maggie Bjorklund
Coming Home is a solo outing from Denmark’s Maggie Bjorklund, released via the excellent Bloodshot Records. The album is a wonderful mix of instrumentals and collaborations with other artists such as...
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Covers Up!
For some reason everywhere we’ve turned recently has brought us into contact with cover songs, so we figured we ought to do our duty and collect the best of them together in one convenient place just...
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Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (21st October)
A funny thing happened on the way back through Gloucester Cathedral this week. After a mesmerising 45 minutes watching Laura Marling perform an unaccompanied acoustic set, Pocket and I set off in hot...
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Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday…on Sunday (5th February)
Submerged in snot and snow, I have emerged this chilly Sunday evening just to pop my head above the parapet and write a paltry Sunday offering (sorry MM, late again!) It did also mean that I was...
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Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (10th February)
Bang on the money this week: gin in hand, more snow outside, Andy Williams is playing… You know that feeling (maybe?) that you just want something to dance to that your Dad used to play on vinyl when...
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Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: February 2012
Musically, the year is starting to really kick into gear now and February saw lots of top quality tunes hit the web. Here is our pick of the best of last month’s posts along with four brand, spanking...
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Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (3rd August)
After another clumsy week in which thankfully no animals or children were hurt in the making of, I have managed to emerge unscathed physically, but sadly not so the bank balance… A lovely visit from...
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Mark Lanegan & WhoMadeWho Release Amnesty 7″
Danish trio WhoMadeWho and Mark Lanegan have covered each other’s songs for release on a limited edition red 7″ vinyl with all of the proceeds going to Amnesty International. The 1,111 hand numbered...
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2012 MAD MACKEREL’S 100 FAVOURITE SONGS PART 1: 100 – 81
So the waiting is over, and here are the first twenty entries in our Top 100 of 2012, part of MM’s much expanded Best of the Year review. Over the next five days we will reveal our favourite songs and...
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MM Shorts 303: More From The Tim Hardin Tribute Album
A few days ago we posted If I Were A Carpenter, the Smoke Fairies contribution to the forthcoming Tim Hardin tribute album, Reason To Believe. Here is a second track from the album, this time it is MM...
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Videos of the Day: The Staves || Moby & Mark Lanegan || Daughters Of Davis ||...
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...
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Mark Lanegan To Release Covers Album
Perennial Mrs M fave Mark Lanegan is nothing if not prolific. Following his solo album last year and collaborations in recent times with Moby, Queens of the Stone Age, Duke Garwood, Isobel Campbell,...
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Mark Lanegan’s Imitations
We are very much looking forward to Mark Lanegan’s covers album, Imitations, due out on the 17th September. It includes his versions and rewordings of songs ranging from Andy Williams standards to a...
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Ten Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
This week we have collected ten cracking tunes from the past seven days of new releases. 1. Mark Lanegan & Beth Orton – Your Kisses Burn (Marc Almond & Nico cover) 2. Kurt Vile – Pretty Pimpin’...
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Mad Mackerel’s Tracks Of The Year 25-1
25 The Moonlandingz – Black Hanz 24 FEWS – La Guardia 23 The Coathangers – Captain’s Dead 22 Cherry Glazerr – Nurse Ratched 21 Beaches – Void 20 Lo Tom – Covered Wagon 19 Trevor Sensor –...
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Mad Mackerel’s Albums Of The Year
30 Meat Wave – The Incessant 29 L.A. Witch – L.A. Witch 28 Oh Sees – Orc 27 Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now 26 Deer Tick – Deer Tick Vol. 1 25 Ty Segall – Ty Segall 24 Public Service...
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MM’s Best of 2017: Mrs Mackerel
Our final personal list of the year is from the fairest, and finest, of fishes… Mrs Mackerel. 2017: probably a year when I’ve listened to the least new music in recent times, so this is very much a...
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Fourteen Songs You Should Have Heard This Week
T. Hardy Morris – Homemade Bliss Whispertown – Never Felt Young Phil Cook – Another Mother’s Son Devendra Banhart – Shown And Told An Horse – Get Out Somehow River Whyless – Darkness In Mind Ty Segall...
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Nicole Atkins Covers Guns N’ Roses With The Help Of Mark Lanegan
Nashville crooner Nicole Atkins, has shared her take on the Guns N’ Roses ballad, November Rain and enlisted the assistance of MM fave, the gravel voiced Mark Lanegan to turn it into a rather special...
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