Every couple of weeks or so I round-up the best new British music that blogs all around the world are listening to and sharing. So get tuned-up and refill/refresh your oil for a fun packed/ relaxed weekend.

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Do you want some anthemic indie rock to relight your olympic torch this Weekend?
Shake Your Fist - one of the finest mp3 blogs out there - discuss NBGL faves Frightened Rabbit, and says they’ve “traded their small-scale art songs for broad mural-scope anthems with dramatic instrumental builds… I’m a little leery about a few Coldplay-falsetto moments, but there are plenty of awesome, ultra-catchy tracks.” Sounds good to me.

Do you want an slow, slumbering and fruitful weekend?
Sian Alice Group over at 5 Songs, where they simply say “Best enjoyed by candlelight with headphones on.” Pitchfork provide the detail: “psychedelic rock, pastoral folk, and piano-lounge balladry into analog-synthtronica, free-jazz breakdowns, pounding Afro-tech grooves, and avant-classical composition.”

Or do you want to be motivated and dream big this weekend?
The White Noise Revisted shares something fantastic; that is if you can stomach it during a weekend-wind-down. “What it might sound like if Underworld’s Karl Hyde got stuck in a malfunctioning power station that was playing host to a titanic lightsabre battle, as a mournful, folky vocal is enveloped by a cacophony of glitch. Marvellous.” Fine words sir, you have convinced me, and my weekend will be all the better having heard The Marcia Blaine School For Girls this evening. I want this kind of a weekend.

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I recently shared a mixtape with you. Some of my music blogger friends kindly did the same after various insistences: here are their mixes of their favourite songs, and the sort of songs they write about.

Gorilla Vs Bear | Motel De Moka |The Torture Garden | MarathonPacks | EarFarm | Music For Ants.

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In Nothing But Green Lights news: I’ve redesigned the site. Those of you reading the RSS won’t notice the cleaner layout, the extended links section to the very best mp3 bloggers, and the section which I like the most: “Best New Music” on the far right. Cats In Paris are currently hold the title. It’s an honour that will rarely be awarded more than once a month. Below that feature is a randomised display of some of the “best new music alumni”: awesomeness from the archives. Refresh! It changes!

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Have a great weekend folks.

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