Ianuarie nu înseamnă doar un an nou calendaristic pentru noi, ci şi începutul celui de-al doilea an de MAP ca reprezentanţi ai României. Luna aceasta vă oferim o piesă de pe proaspătul lansat album numărul 2 semnat Aievea. După o pauză de 6 ani, se întorc cu un material cel puţin la fel de frumos ca şi debutul. Nu-jazz de cea mai bună calitate. Enjoy! Aievea - Joy Of Life Vlaicu Golcea and Electric Brother are two incredibly [...]
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 [...]
JOSE VANDERS London, England The Bristol University student is a quite remarkable talent and it's only a matter of time before her word-of-mouth popularity outgrows the cult following she currently enjoys. Her instrument of choice is usually the piano and if you hunt down her three EPs, you'll soon be swooning to some stunning pop songs. Jose is second from the right, in case you were wondering. Jose Vanders - These Times [...]
Mrs. Toad and I held our annual Christmas party on Saturday and I still feel wrecked. Fucking hell, that was some bash. I think the last gin and tonic was poured at something like half eight in the morning; I was like a zombie yesterday. Funnily enough, the cleaning up wasn't really too bad, because basically most of it just went in bin-bags and the rest in the dishwasher. Still, I still have that kind of dazed feeling you get after these things. Mental. I think we deserve some sort of prize for truly epic parties after this one. [...]
This year's Toad Christmas Party will be a bit sad really, despite still being a big old celebration, as it is the last night at the Bowery, my favourite underground music venue in the city. They will be closing their doors after giving Toad Records and a great many of my friends a venue to call home for the last year, and this is a very great shame. Nevertheless, this is not the season for sulking. The Bowery will go on, just more as an itinerant hobo than a furtive squatter, and this is our chance to give [...]
I am back on Fresh Air Radio this evening, although unfortunately not accompanied by the lovely Ruth, as she's not feeling well. However, to keep the loveliness quota nice and high, the extremely lovely Diana de Carrabus from Candythief will be playing live in session for us this evening. On air 7pm-8.30pm GMT - listen here . She may be named like a dastardly Bond villainess, but Diana's music is theatrical pop joy. A somewhat stripped-down set is required in the tight confines of the Fresh Air studio, however, so it will be [...]
Yes, we're back on the air with a somewhat hastily arranged programme. I somehow managed to only realise on Monday that this show would be going out today, so we haven't been all that big on preparation this week, I'm afraid. There's a slightly new format to the show this year, in that I will be joined on every broadcast by Ruth from the Bowery , and that there will be a live session performance from a band of our choice every week as well, with the video of this performance going up in the post for [...]
After rather unfortunately having to cancel a fully-blown Toad Night, it looks like Saturday will be replete with quality musical entertainments after all. Ruth, Dylan from Blueback Hotrod and myself have been concocting a really nice evening of musical fun, with four (at least) acoustic sets in the bar, DJing (ie choosing some songs for the stereo, nothing fancy) from some of Edinburgh's finest music snobs, and a generally convivial atmosphere at the Bowery all round. Musically we have acoustic sets from two Toad Records bands, one of which is a secret [...]
Today, I'm going to tell you about an exceptional new talent in Scotland's music scene. It struck me that this is something I don't do particularly often - not because I don't want to but because I'm not able to. To put it bluntly, there is very little spread-the-word music being made in this country at the moment by up-and-coming artists. Despite checking out every single band recommendation, MySpace link and email tip-off that comes my way, I'd estimate that I find no more than one good new Scottish act a month, which explains why you are more [...]
What has been circling the submission circles here at the blog? Well a fair amount of stuff! You would think with the sheer amount of music bloggers these days that there aren't enough artists to go around! ....sorry inside blogger joke, kinda. I thought I would feature 3 artists that all cover different sounds but all are finding a home around here. We have a traditional folk artists Thomas Western, a dark moody experience called "The Steals" and to leave you on at least a bit of a summer note, the indie stylings of Trevor Giuliani. Let's get [...]
Hailing from 'The hills near Manchester' is the talent that is Thomas Western. Beautiful voice, beautiful delivery, this has something to it. His debut EP released in 2008 and you can get it from iTunes and emusic . Alternatively you can listen to the whole EP on Spotify, so you have no excuses. Banks Of Sweet Primroses - Thomas Western (mp3) Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan Cover) - Thomas [...]
4 Thomas Western - Your Front Door Hometown: Derbyshire, England Hear more: http://www.myspace.com/thomasw estern Pigeonhole: Daniel Johnston, Tim Buckley Buy more: Quite Early One Morning EP (iTunes)
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