As might be expected, slightly fewer tunes make up our final monthly mix of the best of the downloads from MM – no panic tho’, the quality of new tunes on offer more than makes up for it. And as always, some new ones for you too means a top banana mix of twenty cracking songs to play in the New Year. The Cheatahs – … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: December 2012
Our final video post of 2012 has offerings from The Capsules, The Highballers, Hooray For Earth and a live offering from MM faves Grass House with a new song, A Thousand Generators. Enjoy! a Download The Capsules – Our Apocalypse mp3 (from Northern Lights & Southern Skies) Download The Capsules – Across The Sky mp3 (from Northern Lights & Southern Skies) a a a a a Continue reading Videos of the Day: The Capsules || The Highballers || Hooray For Earth || Grass House
Novo Amor is the moniker of a folk/indie musician from the UK. For the duration of the summer he left the city in which he had been living for 5 years. With a lack of direction he moved back to his childhood home deep in the Welsh countryside, where he set up a home studio of old instruments and microphones. Days were filled with song … Continue reading Introducing >>> Novo Amor
This is the folky, acoustic title track from Honeyboy Carencro’s new EP Air I Breath, which sees a release on New Year’s Day. Continue reading MM Shorts 287: Honeyboy Carencro
After an absence of a few days due to the Best Of posts going up, we have videos today from Hunter Hunted, The Last Royals, Hero Jr.’s power-pop and psych-pop specialists The Ruby Suns. a a a a a Continue reading Videos of the Day: Hunter Hunted || The Last Royals || Hero Jr. || The Ruby Suns
This is the riff-heavy goodness of Spider X, the latest track to hit the web from California X. We’re liking this a lot… a Continue reading MM Shorts 286: New Song From California X
The Storm is Passing Over A Benefit Album by Mason Jar Music & Friends In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Brooklyn-based collective Mason Jar Music has assembled an all-star collection of indie-folk artists to create The Storm is Passing Over, a benefit album of fifteen classic American storm songs. Donations exchanged for these recordings will go directly to support ongoing relief work in New York … Continue reading Mason Jar’s Benefit Album For Hurricane Sandy Relief Work
To celebrate their impending fourth birthday lo-fi garage rock and pop specialists Odd Box Records have collated a retrospective 45 song compilation – that’s nearly a song from every release they’ve put out over the past four years. It includes The Medusa Snare, The Vignettes, Proto Idiot, Ace Bushy Striptease, Pocketbooks and many more. It’s available to download from their bandcamp page on a pay what you … Continue reading MM Shorts 285: Odd Box Records Compilation
In conjunction with their January/February issue, American Songwriter have put together another in their free sampler series, this time featuring twelve tracks from artists including Matt Costa, Dropkick Murphys, The Lost Bayou Ramblers with Scarlett Johansson, Night Beds, Matthew Ryan and plenty more. Here are a couple of standouts from it, or you can grab the whole thing from their Bandcamp page here. a Continue reading American Songwriter’s Free January Muse Sampler
With all the festivities and end-of-year lists of our favourites, it has meant we have not been able to post a number of new tunes that also came out during the latter part of December. So with apologies for the relative lateness of many of these, we still wanted to catch up and give them a bit of love and airtime. Led by the husky, … Continue reading A Late December Catch Up
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