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 new tracks for you to download, sample and treasure. All in all over thirty great songs in one great mix. Download Hoots & Hellmouth – Why Would You … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: February 2012
Uncut have produced their best cover disk in a goodly while on their April edition. Showcasing their pick of “new music” for 2012 it includes tracks from a few MM favourites who have all featured here since the start of the year including Simone Felice, Shearwater, First Aid Kit, Django Django, Beth Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny, Lambchop and Craig Finn. Here are two … Continue reading Uncut’s Watch That Band – New Cover CD
Town Hall win us over afresh with each new track we hear. Yesterday we posted their cover of Always On Time and have already heartily recommended their debut EP Sticky Notes And Paper Scraps. Now we are pleased to share Swim Team with you, it is lovely slice of pastoral folk – initially poignant as it meanders and gently ebbs and flows, before finally building … Continue reading New Single from Town Hall
We’ve been trawling through a whole mass of videos recently and here are some of our favourites assembled for your viewing and listening pleasure. First up is Crybaby’s video for excellent debut I Cherish The Heartbreak More Than The Love That I Lost, shot in the gloomy surrounds of Bristol hospital and is a noirish loveletter to the exquisite pain of a broken heart. a … Continue reading Mega Video Round Up
Noisetrade’s latest free sampler offering is a four track EP from Andrew Bird who releases with his latest studio album Break It Yourself next week. It contains four tracks including the recent single Eyeoneye, The Crown Salesman and So Much Wine from his recent 7″ and a track from the Break It Yourself sessions titled After Dinner Jam. Grab the EP for free by heading … Continue reading MM Shorts 104: Free Andrew Bird Sampler
Yesterday we posted a track from the brilliant Ray Wylie Hubbard’s Daytrotter session and he is involved in today’s post too, being co-producer on this recently released album of gritty, intoxicating one-man-blues by Lincoln Durham, The Shovel [vs] the Howling Bones. Equipped with old, makeshift 1950s amps, resonators, fiddles, harmonicas, tin can microphones, slides, stomp boards and you name it, he gives birth to a sound … Continue reading Introducing >>> Lincoln Durham
If you haven’t signed up to Daytrotter for a measly $2 a month then you are missing out on a whole host of recent gems from Sic Alps, Washed Out, Bombay Bicycle Club, Terry Malts and Kathleen Edwards amongst others. But none more so than the session on the 13th February from grizzled outlaw country genius Ray Wylie Hubbard. Amongst the four outstanding tracks was … Continue reading Ray Wylie Hubbard @ Daytrotter
Following on from our Friday mix yesterday, here are a few tunes to stream, listen to and investigate further should you feel the need. We think you probably will. First up is the new single, 17, from Young & Lost Club’s indie alt-rockers Being There. a Oxford’s latest buzzworthy band are The Black Hats – lots of energy, a definite pop edge, big chorus hooks, and … Continue reading Stream These…
This week, in sunny Charlbury, smallest sprat took a tumble down the rather steep Victorian stairs. Running to his rescue, I had, at that precise moment, chosen to gargle with some mouthwash. Cheeks bulging, I picked him up, caught the (cobwebbed) ironing board in danger of falling on him, then sprinted upstairs to expel said mouthwash. Sadly, I did this in such haste and with … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (24th February)
We’re trying to juggle a few plates at the moment, so can’t do full justice to these tunes other than to say all are worth some of your time. The obvious answer was a straightforward Friday afternoon mix. After all there is absolutely no point in starting anything new in the office now, so download this mix, stick a complicated spreadsheet up on your screen … Continue reading Friday…Let’s Mix It Up
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