It’s Valentines Day. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny it. I will, of course, effortlessly be showing Mrs M just what a lucky catch I was. And for the rest of you, by way of a massively contrived link, let us cover you with love too. Here is a tasty little mix of covers we’ve picked up to follow on from yesterday’s Bad … Continue reading It’s Valentines Day…
Winter is the first taste from the forthcoming Maps & Atlases record Beware And Be Grateful. It is typically tight and dense, but still catchy indie-pop and according to the band, “The song contrasts memory and the perspective of winter as a season of possibility and creativity with the bleak, stillness of winter nights in the Midwest.” The album will be available via FatCat from … Continue reading MM Shorts 95: Maps & Atlases
We previously posted French songstress Alice Michel’s sublime version of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love and now she has dropped us a line with an original composition. This is The Weather In Your Head and it is just as alluring and as captivating as we could have hoped. Have a listen. a Continue reading More From Alice Michel
Time for another swift round-up of some of the best tunes into our in-box and from around our favourite music blogs. A little while ago we posted the video for Shrouded Strangers excellent track Featherbed, and now we have the mp3 for you as well. We also have the full-on power pop of Fort Lean and their new single Sunsick, some Swedish punk from new … Continue reading Sunday Means Eight Of The Best
Bang on the money this week: gin in hand, more snow outside, Andy Williams is playing… You know that feeling (maybe?) that you just want something to dance to that your Dad used to play on vinyl when you were small… I still have the moves, Pops: Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, followed by a bit of Moon River. Anyway, enough of that. You … Continue reading Mrs Mackerel’s TFI Friday (10th February)
Dig Your Grave is the title of a new 7″ EP from The Pharmacy which is as good an example of indie-pop-garage bliss as you’ll find. We included the title track in our January Best of the Month mix. Here is the equally good video for it – a super 8 mess of violence, fire and (what else) graveyards. a Buy it here. Or limited … Continue reading MM Shorts 93: The Pharmacy Video
We’ve found ourselves humming along to the new Deaf Club single on more than one occasion recently. It is a double-A-side affair featuring the tracks Sunday and Mirrors, and will be released via the band’s own White On White label on 20th February. This is the ‘a’ side with its gothic overtones, driven along on percussion that sounds like it came straight out of Bradford in … Continue reading Introducing…Deaf Club
The Muse is the title of the free sampler from American Songwriter and the February mix is a stormer featuring amongst others Sharon Van Etten, Lambchop, Hacienda, Ani DiFranco and The Wrinkle Neck Mules. Here are a couple of our own favourites from it, the wonderful Dr. Dog with an up-tempo taste of new album Be The Void in the shape of the brilliant That Old … Continue reading Free February Sampler From American Songwriter
Off-kilter, ramshackle punk rockers Estrogen Highs will release new album Irrelevant Future on April 10th via Trouble In Mind. The first track to see the light of day is the unashamedly catchy I Wanna Be Tall, an economic, no-frills slice of melodic pop-punk that will stick in your head like the best kind of proverbial ear worm.. Download it below. a Continue reading MM Shorts 90: Estrogen Highs
Here are the best of our January posts together with a few tasty new tracks. All in all nearly forty great tunes compiled and neatly presented in one lovely mix. As always, don’t forget to check out all our previous monthly mixes listed in the sidebar on the left. Download Night Genes – Soaring Through The Chromosomes mp3 (from Like The Blood) Infectiously catchy, military folk stomp. … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Of The Month: January 2012
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