A brilliant month for new music means a mix of more than 35 tracks compiled for you in our selection of our favourite downloads from July’s posts. And, as always, a few brand new tunes to round the collection off. They’re all yours…and check out all the other Best of the Month mixes using the sidebar links too. SNØFFELTØFFS – Pretty Girl Storming garage punk. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: July 2013
[Please note this is a re-post. The original post went up and then disappeared somehow, then came back as half-written! Sorry we’re having lots of problems with a very unstable WordPress host at the moment.] Based in Savannah, Georgia, where the Spanish moss hangs from ancient oaks like long torn veils, Jefferson Ross employs his unique acoustic guitar style and southern, soulful voice to spin … Continue reading Jefferson Ross – Isle Of Hope
A superb collection of videos (and songs) today. Just dive into these from The Handsome Family, Secret Colours, Dinosaur Bones and a live version of one of our favourite tracks from 2012, Willy Mason’s brilliant Restless Fugitive. . . [Click through for free downloads] . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Handsome Family || Secret Colours || Dinosaur Bones || Willy Mason
Kyle Adem’s album Armour was a huge favourite here at MM, and Brother Follow from it featured heavily at the business end of our Best of 2012 lists. Somehow we missed the fact that he is back with a new album Syracuse, which saw a release back in May. Apparently it was written as a consequence of a complete emotional breakdown, a loss of faith, … Continue reading New Album From Kyle Adem
Folk troubadour James the Giant digs deep with his self-titled debut five track EP. Piano and acoustic guitar give voice to folk melodies; drums and bass provide depth to the spectrum. James’s voice floats effortlessly above yet remains full of feeling, at once harkening back to a past age, while firmly rooted in the present. On the first single from the EP, he opens up … Continue reading Introducing >>> James The Giant
Five excellent videos to start the weekend for you. We have the new video from PINS for Get With Me, shot on Brighton beach and Dension Witmer’s pond-gazing video for Keep Moving Brother, Keep Moving Sister. There is Troubadour Rose’s video for the lovely Tell Me, from Catfish & The Bottlemen comes a new video for Pacifier, and lastly a lo-fi, alt-country murder ballad from … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Pins || Denison Witmer || Troubadour Rose || Catfish & The Bottlemen || Pauline Andrès
Two Birds is the new EP from songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Walters, originally from our neck of the woods in Oxford, and now settled in London having packed up his life in both Brighton and Paris over the last few years. The EP opens with The Letter, which details the relationship between a father and his lost son – a haunting call and response between … Continue reading New EP From Richard Walters
We’ve featured the roaming troubadour D.B.Rouse a few times on MM, and it is a pleasure to be able to post about an excellent new album, West Via East, which was released digitally at the beginning of July. It was recorded across the street from the hotel that Gram Parsons died in, and that on its own should tell you plenty about this record. It … Continue reading New Album From D.B.Rouse
New videos this morning from Simone Felice and a wonderful version of Splendor In The Grass from a recent session for the 316 Queens project, and from Ivan & Alyosha and their auditions in front of a cheerleaders group for their uptempo folk stomper Be Your Man. We also have a road trip of jangle pop from The Shilohs, and finally some cool animation from The Eversons for … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Simone Felice || Ivan & Alyosha || The Shilohs || The Eversons
Enjoy some fine videos from long standing MM favourites Sea Wolf and Lightning Dust as well as fiery Argentinian trio Las Kellies and their film for Golden Love and lastly some lovely acoustic folk from Longfellow. . . . Continue reading Videos of the Day: Sea Wolf || Lightning Dust || Las Kellies || Longfellow
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