we're only afraid of NYC I don't think that it's much of a secret round these parts that I'm a big fan of we're only afraid of NYC. Since the release of their debut EP, zero.one way back in 2009, they've continually gotten better in my eyes (and ears). Today sees the release of their new EP zero.four, which again sees the band take another massive step forward. Fuck knows how they're going to move upwards from this point, for now though I don't care as this EP's the dogs proverbials. Get in about it kiddie-winks, [...]
King Post Kitsch I know I have been banging on about King Post Kitsch for a while now and I will continue to do so as his new album is fucking ace. If you still haven't checked him out then head over to Song By Toad where you will find a free download of the excellent ' Fante's Last Stand '. Michael Cassidy First off he records a Peenko Session, then the next thing you know Michael Cassidy is being voted as one of Scotland on Sunday's Eligibles for 2011 . [...]
How to Swim Today's free MP3 is by Glasgow's How To Swim and is sparkly orchestral indiepop with the track New Beginnings .
How To Swim already featured in the Advent Calendar way back on day four , but the festive little blighters have only gone and made more new Christmas songs, so they get in again today. New Beginnings comes from How To Swim's new free download Christmas EP. You can get that EP, Santa's Got All The Best Tunes, here . How To Swim - New Beginnings [...]
How To Swim already featured in the Advent Calendar way back on day four , but the festive little blighters have only gone and made more new Christmas songs, so they get in again today. New Beginnings comes from How To Swim's new free download Christmas EP. It isn't out just yet - keep an eye on their Bandcamp page over the next few days - so enjoy the sneak preview below. [...]
Capitals Those of you who pay attention might remember that I posted a session from this up and coming Edinburgh outfit just last week. Well if you liked what you heard or it passed you by, then fear not as their debut single "Hello World", has just been released as a free digital download . The band play live at King Tuts on the 16th supporting the fabulous Come On Gang! Idlewild It's 10 years since 100 Broken Windows came out, that makes me seriously old. I guess the [...]
After a weekend of alcoholic liver-punching with the awful cunts from Gerry Loves Records I find myself back in Edinburgh with Mrs. Toad off in Australia and nothing between me and an entire week spent on the internet in my pants with a jar of pickled onions and a jumbo packet of pork scratchings. In fact, that sounds like a pretty good plan, all told. Balls to dignity, self-respect and hygiene. Wednesday 10th November 2010: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone & My Tiny Robots at Sneaky Pete's . [...]
FOUND In what is inevitably going to end up being called 'FOUND's Friday Freebie', Chemikal Undergrounds latest signings are very kindly going to be giving away a free song every Friday (it's like it was they did that just for me - they didn't though), until the release of their new album in March. That's a hell of a lot of free stuff! As I am doing this in advance I don't know what the first track they're giving away is, what I do know is that you can download it here . [...]
Hmm, the Edinburgh live music beast still has to entirely crawl out of hibernation it seems, with still very little action to be found in and around the city this week. There are, however, a couple of things going on and the welcome return of Trampoline should rescue us from our post-Christmas ennui. Their lineup is rather cheerful this month, so cheerful in fact that it might even put a smile on the promoter Euan's grumpy old puss. Sadly though, I made something of a half-arsed new year's resolution to stop ignoring high profile bands and [...]
Intorno a Glasgow. Dai sedici ai ventidue componenti, in fuga estemporanea da altri progetti (Eagleowl, Q Without U, Dananananaykroyd, The Just Joans, Lula Maes, How To Swim...). Un Ep, " A Dance to Half Death " (Chaffinch Records), fra folk, ricchezza strumentale, modernariato balcanico, coralità e dilatazione. Attraverso la più tipica delle tradizioni scozzesi. MP3 [...]
It's all going to be underground this week, with most happeny things happening at the Bowery, aided and abetted by Sneaky Pete's on the Cowgate. Ben Folds Five - Underground (Live at Ziggy's) This weekend has been nice, actually. Getting the Samamidon session posted took me all the way through Friday night without any sleep, and all I managed was a couple of hours' nap before the Meursault in-store at Avalanche, and then then off to have a couple of bevvies with Broken Records to celebrate their signing to 4AD. [...]
OK folks, now not that I'm offended or anythingm, but seeing as i went to the trouble of posting the link to How To Swim it would have been nice if someone had commented on it. You're surely not just here for free mp3s are you?!?! Anyway, the band have very graciously allowed me to post mp3s of their latest single so here you. The a-side is an ode to Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P.Orridge and his "Pandrogeny" body-changing experiments, taken from the perspective of his late partner. It is released on Personal Hygiene Records in the UK, and [...]
How To Swim are a fine, fine act hailing from Glasgow. With numbers into double figures (Deep breath, here goes: Ink Wilson - guitar, vocals; Martin Docherty - bass; Chris Brown - hitting things (sic); Sean Callaghan - guitar; Anissia Kerr - keys; Hannah Rankine - saxophone, flute; Anna Webster - vocals, keys, glockenspiel; Ross McCrae - trombone; Annie McFarlane - violin; Rich Merchant - trumpet). Their many influences include Jim O'Rourke and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, and they sound pure gorgeous, as they say in Glasgow. Go over and check them out for yourselves here [...]
What do Belle & Sebastian , Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro all have in common (apart from being three of the most popular bands to come out of Scotland's music scene in the past decade)? The answer is that before virtually anyone had even heard of them, they all brought out one-off releases on Electric Honey , the record label run by music industry management students at Glasgow's Stow College. Each year the students sift through dozens of [...]
Sauchiehall Street is the best street in Glasgow, if not the planet. At number 490 is legendary dancing den The Garage , where every student in the city has spent their nights and much of their loans not knowing when to call it a day. Stumble a few doors down to 482 and you'll find post-club Chinese grub at The Noodle Bar and a plethora of guilty pleasures (you can't go wrong with the Szechuan chicken). At 468 is Capitol : part bar, part gig location but, more [...]
Peenko
Normally on a Saturday I like to post a cover version or two, but seeing as it's fast approaching Christmas Eve and I am sure most of you are starting to get into the festive spirit I thought it might be a fun idea to post up a few festive tunes. A couple of songs ended up turning into many many hours of searching through my music collection to bring you a whopping forty Christmas songs from an array of Scottish artists. I guess this is as good as a time as any to wish all of the folk that [...]
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Aye Tunes
Aye Tunes
Song, by Toad
Happy Days Are Here Again
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The Pop Cop
The Bee Gees – Tragedy (Equateur Remix)
Saint Motel
Knickers - My Baby's Just A Baby EP review
