Listen to the Besnard Lakes From Mojo’s Fleetwood Mac Cover Disk

Mojo’s revisiting of classic Fleetwood Mac album Rumours has gathered up a lot of screen inches over the internet and music blogs. We have already given you the Liars, Yeasayer and the Staves on our original post, but over the past week or so, the Besnard Lakes version of You Make Loving Fun has grown to become perhaps our favourite on the cover disk. Have a … Continue reading Listen to the Besnard Lakes From Mojo’s Fleetwood Mac Cover Disk

Free Festive Download From The Cellophane Flowers

The Cellophane Flowers are definitely getting all festive with their early Christmas present, Tears of a Clown. It comes from their debut album Staring At The World, which was released yesterday. The quirky indie-pop foursome are giving the track away as a free download for you to add to those playlists, especially if you’re wanting to slow things down a bit and take a step … Continue reading Free Festive Download From The Cellophane Flowers

MM Shorts 275: Free Swim’s Christmas Offering

It’s December, so the Christmas specials can begin…and first up is A Rip-Roaring Christmas, a hearty portion of musical Christmas Pudding served up by Surrey’s finest pop-fantasists, Free Swim. Featuring a host of guest appearances from folk they have met on their travels over the past year, this Stollen-esque slice of Rock n’ Roll includes an all-female choir, dueling Fender Stratocasters, and a classic Free Swim … Continue reading MM Shorts 275: Free Swim’s Christmas Offering

Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: November 2012

Even though Christmas is looming and the deluge of end-of-year best of lists are starting to appear on the horizon, November still gave us plenty of cracking new tunes to enjoy. Here are our pick of the best of the downloads from November’s posts, together with a few newbies to tickle the earbuds too. Dive in. Download Crushed Out – Push Down & Twist mp3 (from Want … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: November 2012

The Blog Sound Of 2013: Long List Announced

Shortlist and winner announced 3rd January 2013 The Blog Sound Poll was first published in 2011. The concept of the poll wasn’t to criticise the established BBC Sound of list, but simply an experiment to see if UK music bloggers could come up with its own list of emerging artists that was more representative of their community and give the artists that were nominated some extra … Continue reading The Blog Sound Of 2013: Long List Announced