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Videos today from Sheffield's Dead Sons (a stormer), NC based psychotic rappers Fist Fam (download their album here ), and Australian chain gang balladeers Graveyard Train  featuring life-sized zombie puppets no less. a a a a a Follow @madmackerel

• Dead Sons - Hangman

Al Lover - "Black Magick Starter Jacket" Burnt Ones - "Do the Spell" Before you confront whatever potentially awkward meal awaits you on Thanksgiving, head to Milk on Wednesday for Al Lover 's tape release party for Satanic Tambourines . Burnt Ones , Fist Fam , and POW! also perform. Panama Jack EP by Fist Fam Pretend There EP by POW! Related Posts: [...]

I'm wrasslin' with a nasty summer cold this week and have little time or tolerance for highly conceptual works of art. Thankfully, the song Drinkin' finds San Fran's Fist Fam paying respect to one of this country's leading pastimes in a style that got me jonsing a bit, regardless of the fact that it's not even 8am. In case you're curious, the video for Drinkin' finds the Gurp City crew, not in the city by the bay (sorry Steve Perry), but rather on location in the hills and hollers of [...]

Seems at the rate we're going, there will be a time in the not too distant future at which every backwater berg in the U. S of A will have at least one hip-hop love letter dedicated to it. Of course, not unlike the crews that compose these odes, some cities are more deserving than others. Now, for my money, San Francisco is a great place to visit on the strength of City Lights Bookstore and Amoeba Records alone. And though they may never break into the mainstream, San Fran hip-hop collective Fist Fam [...]

Created in a single week late last month, Fist Fam producer Al Lover reworked an entire album's worth of boom-bap mixes utilizing the late Captain Beefheart's 1967 debut, Safe as Milk . Going against the grain compared to what I've heard from the rest of the San Francisco-based collective, Safe as Milk Replica is grounded in dirty guitar samples which serve as a tremendous platform to jump off with the beats. The entire album can be downloaded for free from Al Lover's Bandcamp page . Al Lover "Grown [...]

• Al Lover - Grown So Ugly (Captain Beefhea
• Al Lover - Plastic Factory (Captain Beefh

Here at MM we share, chat, argue, bury and praise music on a pretty regular basis…like daily. So throughout the year, the Mackerel crew (Mrs Mackerel, Barry-Sean, Christy-Popper, Dr Roddy, Polly Pocket, Starbar, MM and others) keep their own ever-changing top tens ready for publication at the climax of the festive season. Fifth in line is the indomitable lion of Hixet Wood...Mr Christy-Popper. 10.  Local Natives – Airplanes  ( Download here, Daytrotter Session ) The first big tune of the year for me, I sort of rediscovered this while compiling my top ten. [...]

• Wooden Wand - Uncle Bill

Here at MM we share, chat, argue, bury and praise music on a pretty regular basis…like daily. So throughout the year, the Mackerel crew (Mrs Mackerel, Barry-Sean, Christy-Popper, Dr Roddy, Polly Pocket, Starbar, MM and others) keep their own ever-changing top tens ready for publication at the climax of the festive season. Now is the time to reveal all... Our third contribution this year comes from the mighty Dr Roddy, house-mate, chef, Leeds fan, and occasional soiler of his own trousers. 10. Strayfolk – What Wouldn’t I Do ( Download here ) [...]

• Fist Fam - S.F. Bay

Music video for the Commissioner Gordon-produced "S.F. Bay" by the San Francisco-based Fist Fam collective.