Alala qu'ils nous font rêver le gamin digital et ses acolytes. « Timelpase Remix » réunit la crème d'electrofunk de ces dernières années, des noms ne vous sont forcément pas inconnus là dedans, je pense particulièrement à Captain Funk ou encore Bestrack . 6 Remixes, 2 titres inédits, c'est ce dont est composé cet album remix que l'on peut citer comme un B-Side et qui sort chez Folistar .Du newcomer au vieux de la vieille il n'a pas lésiné sur les moyens avec une ambiance 802s qui donne envie de fermer les [...]
Lach, whose album Ramshackle Heart came out on Song, by Toad Records in July this year, and scored a clean sweep of great reviews in every single glossy music monthly in the country, which is not something we have ever managed before. Anyhow, as you may have noticed in August, the engine room behind the New York Antifolk scene has now moved to Edinburgh and as such is the subject of a documentary on BBC Radio Scotland, which broadcasts in about forty-five minutes, and again on Sunday the 1st January, and will be available [...]
So here were are once again on another distinctly mediocre morning in one of the most utterly unremarkable months of the calender. I was born in November and at least November is pretty reliably completely shit, whereas October doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. It's not even consistently rubbish enough to hate. So far so fucking splendid. I have been driven away from Facebook today by an over-abundance (i.e. one person) of grown fucking adults talking in fucking babyspeak. "U cud of come 2 [insert name of some shit club or other]." Dear [...]
Comacast? Yes, because of the imminent onset of a post-Festival coma. After trying to juggle two gigs of my own, two gigs I wanted to attend, the Antifolk-off and the visit of a good friend I haven't seen in a couple of years and the Retreat Festival this weekend I think I am now ready to officially declare August over and collapse into a somnolent stupour. In short, I need to sleep. A lot. Mrs. Toad came back from a ten-day holiday last night as well, and that always restores a sense of equilibrium. [...]
Lach is back at the Edinburgh Festival this year, and with his return Song, by Toad Records is going to end up involved in some different stuff than the more straightforward manufacturing and release of records. There are three main things going on over the course of the next wee while, all of which you might be interested in, and some of which you might be interested in taking part in. 1. New album Ramshackle Heart out now on Song, by Toad Records 2. Lach's Antihoot returns to the Gilded [...]
And so the madness begins. The Edge Festival this year is still looking for something special, beyond Sebadoh and The National, but there is nevertheless an unbelievable shitload of stuff happening in Edinburgh over the course of the next four weeks. Personally, I am going to have much more involvement this year, for two reasons. For starters, last year I spent two weeks of August on holiday in China, and another week up at Haarfest in Fife, and this year I'll be here the whole way through. Secondly, of course, we will be releasing the Best [...]
Well after an extremely successful Ides of Toad on Saturday (a massive thanks to the excellent bands, and to the fucking loads of people who came along) I think this week I shall be putting my feet up and letting other people do the work for a bit. And what a fuck of a lot of work they've been doing, too, because this week is a bit mental in terms of excellent gigs at which to drink yourself into an early grave. So much for the pre-Festival wind-down I discussed last week. As well as having [...]
Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: zip download (right-click, save as). Lach is the man behind the Antihoot, the New York open stage which gave rise to the term and the movement called Antifolk . People bandy the word about so much these days it's almost become as nebulous as the term 'indie', but it had a very specific origin and a very specific meaning back at the beginning. Last year Lach brought the Antihoot to the [...]
Most live scenes tend to peter out a little from late June/early July onwards as the Festival season starts to cannibalise what remains of the audience after the students have gone home, and people tend to take what little chance they get to be outside in the sun, if it ever appears, rather than in a sweaty basement listening to pale young men complaining about their feelings. The Edinburgh live scene, on the other hand, tends not to be as dependent on students, not to have to fear too much from oft promised but never delivered good weather, [...]
Apparently no-one visits websites anymore, because it's all about the social media and so on and so forth, so I suppose most of you have already seen this. In case you haven't, however, I have uploaded a free Song, by Toad Records sampler to Bandcamp, with songs from some of our more recent releases, as well as a healthy dose of new material from the releases we have planned for the rest of the year. Our release schedule is slowly filling up, as well. Before a brief break for the Edinburgh Festival we have four-song 73 [...]
It seems like a very long time since I have given you anything like a news update on Song, by Toad Records, and that's because I usually keep things things restricted to times when I have something to give away, like an mp3 or a new video or something like that. In this case I don't have any such thing, but there has been a lot going on. So I thought I should probably give you a wee update anyway, because somewhat amazingly, we have no less than five new signings to announce (I hate that word, but [...]
Ruth and I were back on Fresh Air Radio last night, but due to all sorts of massively annoying database problems with the site, I couldn't put up one of those live playlist updatey things like I usually do, which was really kind of frustrating. After spending last term more or less missing one another every single show I must confess I am looking forward to getting things right in 2011 and the chance to spend an hour and a half every week bickering with the old trout about music. So given you had [...]
This is my annual World of Song, by Toad Records podcast, where I prattle on a bit about the stuff we have coming up in the new year. I play a couple of things we released towards the tail end of the year, and some stuff by some of the new bands we're going to be working with for the first time in 2011. I also prattle on at immensely tedious length about the ins and outs of running a record label, which may or may not actually interest you at all, but it's there whether you like [...]
As I have mentioned many times on these pages, Lach has been in Edinburgh this Summer to host an Edinburgh version of his legendary New York anti-folk open mic night, the Antihoot, as well as his own one-man show The Day I Went Insane. There are some videos of Neil from Meursault and Yusuf Azak performing live at the Antihoot here , and those of you who probably read this page far more regularly than you should do may also have noticed the fact that Lach was also kind enough to guest on the [...]
Having missed most of the first week of the Festival by being in Spain, I am now going to miss large parts of this week by pootling about in Anstruther at Haarfest (tickets can be found in the right hand column of this page ). Mrs. Toad will presumably hate me for this of course, as she has to stay behind in Edinburgh and do a proper job, whereas I can fuck off to Fife, get lashed, and call it work. Mwaaah hah haaa...! Given the fact that during the Festival the centre of Edinburgh [...]
Ruth is back on the air, and she and I commence our weekly Festival special show today at 7pm on Fresh Air. We're on tonight, Sunday 22nd and 29th, and will be trying to get live session types in for each show, as per usual. Tonight we are lucky enough to be joined by Lach, the driving force behind the anti-folk movement which started in New York and is relocating to Edinburgh for the Festival in the form of Lach's Antihoot. Listen live here from 7pm BST. For anyone interested in [...]
[Three more videos below.] Lach's famous New York open mic night the Antihoot is responsible for launching the careers of many of the bands people who read this site love the most. He is, in fact, the man responsible for terms like anti-folk and the movement it represents. I have to confess I find this kind of odd. The term is something which has been so ingrained in my musical vocabulary ever since I started writing about music that the idea of it having been invented so recently seems really rather odd. [...]
So, the Festival descendeth upon Edinburgh once more, and once more we are beset by London-based Home County Yahs braying their zany way through the city until finally someone snaps and sets fire to their stupid fucking stilts once and for all. Actually, as I confess pretty sharpish, I am the classic Edinburgh Festival hypocrite, if I'm being honest with myself. I love it as much as I loathe it and I enjoy moaning about it almost as much as I enjoy the Festival itself. As a native you really do have to have the right [...]
Well, after a bit of a lull last week there's all sorts of crap going on in and around Edinburgh this week, so choose wisely because trying to attend everything could just be the end of you. As well as the usual recommendations there are a couple of half-recommendations this week; gigs I feel I should want to go to, but am actually not that fussed about. Crystal Antlers (I mean, come on, they have Crystal in their name, they have to be good, almost as guaranteed as having Fuck in your name last year, or Bear the [...]
Contrast Podcast #158 honors the egg as springtime symbol of fertility and new life. Eggs are also well-known as fragile, and I couldn't resist Rasputina's song about how bringing back an egg through shark-infested waters is this island's method of choosing a king. That's the kind of guts we need from our leaders! My other two choices, also posted, are excellent songs too. The number of songs about eggs or by bands with eggy names is pretty amazing-just check out the podcast and see. And there is also the album title [...]
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