Insound’s latest free mixtape is up and available for the next week or so. This time it features tracks from Amor de Dias, Beach Fossils, Campfires, Free Energy, Gospels, Leapling, Mock & Toof, The Pharmacy, The Ruby Suns, Toro y Moi, Vatican Shadow, and Widowspeak! Just go here to grab it for nowt, or check a couple of our favourites from it first. Download Campfire – … Continue reading Latest Free Insound Mixtape
Gospel Claws have appeared a few times on Mad Mackerel, and they have made a new track available for free download from their recent album Put Your Sunshine Away. Looming Darkness has just the right amount of jangle and reverb to create an infectiously enjoyable slice of indie rock. Buy the album here. Download Gospel Claws – Looming Claws mp3 (from Put Your Sunshine Away) Continue reading MM Shorts 298: New Track From Gospel Claws
Fear Of Men have made Seer, the unreleased track from their new singles compilation, Early Fragments, available online. It’s released on Kanine Records on Feb 11th on marbled 12″ vinyl and collects together the tracks from their limited UK 7″s, plus Doldrums and Seer. It is a North American release but is available on import in the UK. Another band I shall be looking out … Continue reading New Track From Fear Of Men
Dive into the new video from Barry Sean’s favourites, the Bunnymen inspired Chapel Club, slow things down with the sweet harmonies in the new Eliza & The Bear video for Upon The North and get ready for a Saturday night with the inflammable garage punk and dirty surf rock from Australia’s Reptiles and more lo-fi grunge inspired indie rock from MM faves Speedy Ortiz. a … Continue reading Videos of the Day: Chapel Club || Eliza & The Bear || Reptiles || Speedy Ortiz
Last year’s Menomena album Moms was a bit of a late discovery for us, but it has been a record we’ve been listening to solidly since then. So we’re a bit quicker off the mark with this, their new single called Toomer, the lyrical meaning is clear, “I’m a cancer/you’re a tumor” as they carry over their themes of disease, despair and suffering from the album. … Continue reading New Single From Menomena
And so to the third instalment of our Round Up posts, catching up with our overflowing in-box, our favourite blogs and the internet at large. Today another 13 tracks to tickle your fancy. First up is another track from the brilliant Australian Tom Morgan and his forthcoming album Orange Syringe which is due on Fire Records on 4th February. This is the wonderfully stripped back and … Continue reading Round Up Time Again – Part 3
Videos today from the most promising Drenge and their incendiary new single Bloodsports, some melancholic Americana from Moses Luster, swooning indie rock from Daddy Lion, and the intense, and gorgeous, folk acoustics of Norway’s Moddi. a a a a a a a Continue reading Videos of the Day: Drenge || Moses Luster || Daddy Lion || Moddi
Following on from our Round Up Part 1 post yesterday, comes 16 more tracks from the in-box, our favourite blogs and the web in general for your aural delight. Kicking us off are Summer Hours and their single Close and Closer from forthcoming album Closer Still. Although they may initially sound simple, closer listening reveals complex song structures with intricate bass and guitar melodies. a Cobalt … Continue reading Round Up Time Again – Part 2
Before Christmas, Ex-Painters may have sent us just about the best ‘PR’ e-mail we’ve ever received. Hey Madness, I made a little record. I tried to make a folk version of Psychocandy. I got it all fucking wrong. 6 songs. 12 minutes. a Genius. You can buy it for $3 from Bandcamp here (this last bit was us). a Continue reading MM Shorts 295: Ex-Painters
The latest in the series of Tribute Albums to hit the digital shelves will be Reason To Believe – The Songs of Tim Hardin, which will be released on the 28th January via Full Time Hobby. Tim Hardin was a musicians’ musician, the inspiration behind a great many artists whose limelight he never procured for himself. Johnny Cash, Paul Weller, Echo and the Bunnymen, Scott … Continue reading Reason To Believe – Tim Hardin Tribute Album
