Maz Totterdell || The Bull & Gate, Kentish Town, London || 6th June 2012 It’s been a few years since I’ve spent a Wednesday night in Kentish Town. Big Sair and I zoomed down the M40 under the power and panache of the Dooper and arrived at the Bull and Gate just in good time. I first heard Maz Totterdell on Steve Lamacq several months … Continue reading Maz Totterdell: Mrs Mackerel’s Live Review
Another crackerjack month of new tunes on MM, all lovingly compiled and packaged up for you in one sweet playlist ready to download. Here are 33 of our favourite tracks from our May postings and 6 new songs too. No need to thank us. Download Virals – Gloria mp3 (from Coming Up With The Sun EP) Shines bright with an insanely hooky vocal and charged guitar riffs, … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: May 2012
Saint Motel’s debut album is due out in July and will be called Voyeur. The first taste from it is the sparkling, effervescent indie-pop of 1997 – a vaguely loving ode to the friendships forged in the Heaven’s Gate cult! Have a listen, or grab it via the limited time download below. Pre-order the album via iTunes here. a Continue reading MM Shorts 165: New Song From Saint Motel
Red Cosmos is the work of one wonderfully named Kim Tortoise and when we received her CD, There And Back, in the post with a most engaging handwritten note it created the initial impression of a gentle soul full of whimsy with a floaty dress and an acoustic guitar. Hmm. Not quite. Released a month or so ago, this is an album that is overflowing … Continue reading Introducing >>> Red Cosmos
a Download Fawn – Pixels mp3 (from Coastlines) Continue reading Video of the Day: Fawn
This month, Mojo magazine once again revisits a classic album with the help of some of today’s best artists. The Yellow Submarine film was released on July 17, 1968 and the Beatles soundtrack album followed six months later. In 1999, the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, a collection of music from that era, was released and it is this track listing that has mainly driven Yellow Submarine … Continue reading Mojo’s Free Yellow Submarine Covers Disk
a Download The Candy Strypers – Hymn The Girl mp3 (from Hymn The Girl Single) Continue reading Video of the Day: The Candy Strypers
Here is a collection of tracks that have found their way into our in-box or on to our iTunes one way or another recently, and which deserve far more time and effort spent on them than we are currently able to give. Plenty to soundtrack your Friday with. Brooklyn’s indie pop three-piece Violens have just released their second LP, True, on Slumberland Records. The album’s … Continue reading Mega Round Up Time
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