Violas are a Welsh band with a lovely, easy-going indie sound. They have a debut three track EP out now titled Hwylio/Sailing and have made the sweetly uplifting Sea Shells from it available for free download. Buy the single from label Owlet Music here. Download Violas – Sea Shell mp3 Continue reading MM Shorts 120: Violas
We seem to be getting overwhelmed by high quality videos at the moment so it would be churlish and not a little selfish of us not to share some of the best with you. Kicking off is the wonderful video for the delicately beautiful Tuck The Darkness In from the Bowerbirds new album The Clearing. a Next we have Cheyenne Marie Mize and a video for her … Continue reading More Videos For Your Perusal And Enjoyment
Josh & Mer (aka Josh Schroeder & Meredith Adelaide) featured in a couple of the End-of Year Top Tens we posted back in December and so we are pleased to be able to offer you up a new tune and video from them. This is Mind Control, which has an altogether more unsettling and eerie vibe to it than we’ve previously been used to and the … Continue reading Josh & Mer Unleash The Freaks…
Our third recommended free mix comes via the distinctive and original blog/record label Song, By Toad. They have made available the first of what is planned to be an annual free mix consisting mostly of highlights from their label releases that include the brilliant Rob St. John, Black Tambourine, Trips & Falls and King Post Kitsch among the 15 tracks and 3 snippets from Wind … Continue reading MM Shorts 116: Free Mix Download 3
As you might expect as SxSW looms a plethora of free mixes become available one way or another. We have a few to tell you about and first up is Spin magazines Austin Power Mix – swapping an e-mail address will get you over 30 tracks from some of their to selections for the musical showcase including Blondes, Django Django, The War On Drugs, Sharon Van … Continue reading MM Shorts 114: Free Mix Download 1
Seeing Brakes play to an ecstatic crowd at the End of the Road Festival was a highlight of our first visit there and so my interest was piqued when an email arrived with details of the new solo album from Thomas White for it is he who has played with aforesaid Brakes as well as Electric Soft Parade and one of Barry-Sean’s favourites, British Sea … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends…Thomas White
Fish on a Friday – there’s a novelty for me. Just a small dose of lightly grilled mackerel this week… So it is away I go to Wembley for a weekend of undoubtedly strenuous exercise by day (aerobics), followed by two evenings of hard drinking (take your pick really, but alcoholic I suspect). I expect that one will have an unduly detrimental effect on the … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (9th March)
We are more than chuffed to be offering up the first viewing of Paradise’s new video for Diary Of An Old Soul, the title track and one of the highlights from their inspired album of vintage garage rock that hits stores soon. We first streamed the song last month describing it then as ‘authentically primal, so reverential in its steady blues chug and psych-pop overcoat … Continue reading MM Premiere: Paradise Video
We’ve got good stuff coming out of our ears – quite literally at the moment. So here is the latest in our somewhat ad-hoc “of the best” feature comprising a trawl of the in-box and favourite blogs to bring you eight corking tunes to help get your Friday night off to a suitably energetic start. We have Swedish punks Holograms and the clattering b-side to … Continue reading Friday Means Eight Of The Best
Saint Motel are offering up their new tune Honest Feedback as a limited time free download. They describe it as having “retro sock-hop-pop vibes that we really love and it’s fun to get loose to this song on stage.” Grab it now…while you can! And if you’re going to SxSW make sure to catch them there too. a Continue reading MM Shorts 113: More From Saint Motel
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