Wikipedia Good: the holiday season is just lousy with cover versions. Bad: they've all been posted by every blog under the mistletoe ad nauseum. So while in past years I've done mini-omnibus holiday mixes - 2010 and 2008 are still up - this year I'll just focus on one song, Darlene Love's most famous contribution to the classic Phil Spector -assembled A Christmas Gift To You , and four diverse covers of it. Slow Club do the most faithful [...]
So we would normally have our new releases out this week on Tuesday, but the new releases this time of year are few and far between. We decided to compile some tracks for your listening pleasure as you hang with family and friends around the tree, or cuddling up with your significant other in front of the yule log. Props to Vague Space for making our job pretty easy, by hosting some rad Christmas flavored tracks. Cheers. The Raveonettes; Christmas Song [...]
Long have I adored the work of Malcolm Middleton , ever since he worked in Arab Strap . Luckily, since it's raining, I opted to pick up his new LP, which is basically his first album of recordings that never saw the light of day until now. He's been really busy lately, or so it seems on his site, so I'm happy to pick up A Quarter Past Shite . It's [...]
Oct 11, 2011, 7:59pm
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» HOROSCOPELESS « una rubrica che c'è da fidarsi - me l'han detto gli astri. - wow, ci sei così in confidenza? - no, era una sera che erano ubriachi. ARIETE - mettetevi comodi ed aspettate che sia l'amore a tornare da voi. Se per cena non si è ancora fatto sentire, chiamate la polizia. TORO - Saturno entra nella Luna ma ne esce dopo trentacinque secondi: ne sapete qualcosa, si chiama eiaculazione precoce. GEMELLI - tutto uguale. [...]
Sep 30, 2011, 1:00am
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Sechs schottische MusikerInnen gehen gemeinsam fremd und flirten abseits ihrer Stammbands mit nicht unsympathischem IndieRock. Im Sextett aus Glasgow fliessen Erfahrungen von The Reindeer Section, Arab Strap, Frightened Rabbit oder Admiral Fallow zusammen. Heraus kommt flotter, gitarrenlastiger Indie-Shizzle mit Stacey Sievwrights netter Stimme, die es ab und an auch im gemischten Duett zu hören gibt. 'Lights in the Sky' sucht man auf dem im Oktober fälligen Debüt "Honestly, This World" vergeblich. Der Song wird von The Moth & The Mirror lediglich als Appetitanreger verschenkt. Und schmeckt [...]
Another watery October evening in an east midlands town. Shadows lengthen and dead-eyed men with trophy dogs stand in weak pools of flourescence thrown from shop windows; blue plastic carrier bags straining at the handles, lumpen with cans. The smell of leaf smoke is carried up the canal, past an old houseboat, and into the town streets where it is smothered by the scent of curry and battered fish. Children chant from a distant concrete space... Down by the river, down by the sea, Johnny broke a bottle and [...]
Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton reimagine Slow Club's new funky single, 'Two Cousins.'
The Moth & The Mirror - Lights In The Sky
Have you not heard about The Moth & The Mirror ? Well, if you haven't, but you follow Glaswegian bands, you have probably heard something from all the members participating in this super-group. There's members of Arab Strap , Reindeer Section , Admiral Follow and Frightened Rabbit. Should make for a pretty interesting combination, right? We've heard the band is going to release an album later in the year, but for now they're content to hold you over with this tune. It begins with Stacey Sievwright, wooing you with [...]
Neil Krug Those of us who dismissed The Horrors as gimmicky flash in the pans based on their 2007 debut Strange House were left eating our words with their follow up, 20092s massive and grinding Primary Colours . With the assistance of producer Geoff Barrow, all the band's cartoonish aspects (stage surnames included) were jettisoned in favour of a goth-y and raw, yet melodic aesthetic that evoked the most aggressive aspects of '80s British New Wave and '90s shoegaze. As far as reinventions [...]
Tweet My good buddy Peenko from back home started his own record label earlier this year and one of the first releases on said label is a super-group of Scottish musicianship. Containing members from Frightened Rabbit , Arab Strap , The Reindeer Section, Admiral Fallow , and Smoke Jaguar, the band and label are getting ready to drop their debut album in October via Peenko's Olive Grove Records . As a lead single from an album of luminaries, it flits [...]
Arab Strap — Girls of Summer From Mad for Sadness (Go! Beat; 1999) And then you'll wake up and the first thing we'll do is make plans to get pissed / So we'll sit in a pub and watch the girls of summer
I Author My Own Disaster, Volume One, Part Three michiko kimura, location unknown; date unknown I've become untethered. I am floating in space. my hands are open and waiting for you. my hands are open and waiting for you. my hands are open and waiting for you. Download : Arab Strap - Haunt Me [...]
In je gedachten zie je Aidan Moffat zitten aan een tafeltje in zijn favoriete café in het Schotse Falkirk, in 'the nearest pub to the crematorium'. Een opschrijfboekje en een Guinness bij de hand. Het kan niet anders dan dat de teksten voor Everything's Getting Older op deze manier zijn ontstaan. De man van Arab Strap laat op dit album weer mooie bespiegelingen horen. Bill Wells zorgt voor de jazzy begeleiding, met veel piano en enkele prachtige strijkersarrangementen. Het album is overwegend ingetogen en somber. Alleen in (If You) Keep Me In [...]
Arab Strap, "Phone Me Tomorrow"
This blog has been up and running for just over 2 years now and i just realised that i've never actually done a proper Valentines Day post. So here is one in the form of a Monday List. Valentines Day divides a lot of people. Some love it and celebrate it to the full with presents, dinner dates, "quiet" nights at hotels, cards, flowers and the general showering of love on their partner. Then there are those who hate (lets be honest it's usually single people) Valentines Day [...]
Ron Butlin seems to be one of Scottish writing's best kept secrets and I don't quite know why. Scotland is lucky to have the writers we do, and Butlin can show his medals with the best of them. He is perhaps best known as a poet, he is Edinburgh's Makar after all, but even in [...]
MP3: Arab Strap - Fucking Little Bastards I've been listening to this record a lot lately, perhaps a result of finally picking it up on vinyl (which the copy was probably sitting there for years, new and untouched). A wrench of an album, a broodingly unkempt coat for the pessimistic romantic—few recent records have felt so assuring in their bleakness—yet a bleakness they resign themselves to.
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Peenko
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Austin Town Hall
Cover Me
Asleep on the compost heap
Happy Days Are Here Again
Listen Before You Buy
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Dear Scotland
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