Here is our regular round-up of the very best of October’s postings. Twenty great tracks for a great mix, plus three new ones to enjoy too. You can check out all of our previous best of the month mixes just by clicking the links for April, May, June, July. August and September. No Age – Fever Dreaming mp3 (from Everything In Between) A full on, … Continue reading MM’s Best Of The Month: October
We don’t usually do themed mixes, but Halloween is different. So many great songs lend themselves to a night of ghoulish wrongdoing and sorcery. So to get you in the mood, download a marvellous combination of folk, punk, psych-rock, paisley jangle, experimental, indie, and straight up rock ‘n’ roll. Fifteen great songs, all treats and no tricks. Download The Dream Syndicate – Halloween mp3 (from … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Halloween Mix
You’ve got to choose your battles. Some things (and people) just ain’t worth the effort; sometimes it pays to play the long game; and at other times, shoot from the hip first, ask questions later (not recommended as a blanket approach though …) It’s been a tiring week, at the hands of the sprats plus one. The dog and I are still recovering. However, an … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday
It’s Friday, Mrs M’s musings are still to come, and a Halloween playlist for the weekend too, but for now, here is a quick playlist/round-up of those songs we’ve gathered up recently, but not had/found enough time to post about properly… First up Leopold & His Fiction, we’ve seen this track described as the Doors meet Wolfmother… Download Leopold & His Fiction – Golden Friends … Continue reading Friday Round-Up
Despite Mat Cothran, aka lo-fi one-man band Coma Cinema, offering two albums for free from his website, I had never really sat down and listened to them. It has taken the announcement of a new album, titled Blue Suicide, and a couple of advance tracks to make me prick up my ears and then go back and find out just what I had missed out … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Coma Cinema
We recently streamed the new single from up and coming Oxford band Trophy Wife. Now they’ve made a truly lovely acoustic version of Microlite available for download. The single is out on the 8th November and you can pre-order here. Visit their MySpace here. Download Trophy Wife – Microlite (Acoustic Version) mp3 Continue reading Trophy Wife Go Acoustic
We’ve been a bit slow getting round to this post about Wing Commander, having been listening to these songs from their EP From 93 Onwards for a while now. The tracks themselves are hard to define, melding what could almost be described as vast sonic soundscapes with a bit of dubstep and underpinning it with a folkish mentality to create something that is naggingly familiar … Continue reading Introducing…Wing Commander
Yesterday Partisan Records released the latest full-length effort from Paleo entitled A View Of The Sky, available in CD, LP, Ltd. Edition Color Vinyl and Digital Download formats. Paleo has been traveling the country for the last 6 years. Booking his own shows, he has been playing roughly 150 dates a year while living out of his car and staying with people kind enough to share … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Paleo
David Gergen takes acoustic indie rock places it rarely goes, especially on one record. Bending ambience on Seven Miles to Sunset, throbbing electronics on Ore De Electro, along with bluesy slide guitar on The Streets I’m Walking, there’s a taste of everything on Gergen’s latest solo release (his fourth), The Nearer it Was…The Farther It Became. His voice, though consistently deep and resonant evokes the … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…David Gergen
Johnny Flynn has unveiled the video for his new single The Water which features guest vocals from Laura Marling. The Water references the life-giving and taking properties of the subject matter, “The water can’t drown me / I’m done with my dying.” A bleak sentiment brought to life with disarming vocals, simple guitar plucks and breathtakingly beautiful percussion. This is the third single from his recent … Continue reading New video from Johnny Flynn
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