Noisetrade are offering a very nice free sampler featuring the Best of The American Songwriter sessions. It has thirty tracks including such MM faves as Joe Pug, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Vetiver, Justin Townes Earle and The White Buffalo amongst many others. There are a couple of choice tracks from it below, but just visit their Facebook page here and click on the Like button … Continue reading Nice Free Sampler From Noisetrade
Humour me this week. Sunderland is my team. My home town, my home team and now the whole family’s team. It’s a bit like parenting a teenager (she said bitterly): you love them regardless, would never desert them, hurt anyone who ever criticised them, but they don’t half push you to the edge at times. Today, it looks like dreams really do come true. For … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (2nd December)
Mark Twain turned 176 the other day – this is Ha Ha Tonka’s birthday tribute. A song about him. a Continue reading MM Shorts 52: Ha Ha Tonka
Despite the end of the year fast approaching, thankfully the quality of new music shows no signs of slowing. Here are the best of our November offerings, together with some tasty new tracks to round off the mix.Over thirty great songs – just right for the roaring fire and the cocoa! Download Siskiyou – Twigs And Stones mp3 (from Keep Away The Dead) Brilliantly judged … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: November 2011
Like all the big music magazines in the UK, Uncut is publishing their top 50 albums of the year in their current issue and thankfully unlike Q, they have managed to avoid the monumental foolishness of putting Florence & The Machine at Number 1. They are also giving away a pretty decent cover CD with tracks from some of their favourite 2011 albums including Josh … Continue reading Uncut Magazine’s Best Of The Year Free CD
We’ve posted a couple of times this year about the country-ish, brother and sister duo The Breedings and this is their latest offering Everything You Wanted, which is available for a while, completely free. It is another cut from their very fine and sneakily beguiling album Laughing At Luck. You can always buy the album here. Download The Breedings – Everything You Wanted mp3 (from … Continue reading MM Shorts 50: New Download From The Breedings
The highly contagious and infectious Little Comets have unveiled His Thunder, a brand new track from their forthcoming Worry EP, out December 12th on Dirty Hit. Think art-rock meets folk in a battle for world domination… a Continue reading MM Shorts 48: New EP From Little Comets
The two tracks on Pennsylvanian acoustic orchestra i am Love’s forthcoming Truest 7 inch represent both the personal and the global sides of revolution. The beautifully paced ebb and flow of the rich, thoughtful title track, written by band leader Joshua Christopher after a near-fatal car accident, celebrates a return to life after tragedy. The B-side, Trumpets and Cliffs is more anthemic, a clarion call to action … Continue reading Introducing…I Am Love
Weald is the first LP by Rob St. John, released last week on gatefold 12” vinyl by Song, by Toad Records – we’ve posted about him before and it is great to see he has now got a full length album out. Even better that he should have delivered a record of such outstanding quality that puts many of the so called bigger names in the alt-folk … Continue reading Rob St. John Releases Debut Album, Weald
At the end of the year in 2007, Okkervil River released Golden Opportunities Mixtape, a free EP intended as a gift to fans. This year, the band continues that tradition in the sequel release Golden Opportunities 2, which both hearkens back to the original release and varies the formula. Like its predecessor, Golden Opportunities 2 is a series of conceptually-related covers, this time by lesser-known … Continue reading Okkervil River Offer Up Free EP
