01.Easter - Somethin' American This might be the first time such an unknown song by such an unknown band has ever been given top spot on any of my end of year lists, but they were absolutely brilliant live when they played up here in September, and this song is just fantastic, as are the other two songs on their Soundcloud page. It's less lo-fi than a lot of the DIY stuff I've listened to this year, and the squalling solos which tease Easter's songs to an end evoke loads of old school US indie music. This gives quite [...]
Here we are at the penultimate podcast of the year, and the one immediately preceding Christmas. I really don't like 99% of Christmas music so there's pretty close to none of it at all on here, although I have made a couple of exceptions as a lazy sort of nod to the season. Let's face it, if the druids can be arsed dancing about like idiots around Stonehenge and people can fall out over half-defrosted turkeys then I can probably make the effort to shove a couple of token musical nods onto a single podcast, can't I. I [...]
Sorry about the delay getting this post up, but today has been the day of bureaucracy. Magnificent, steaming bureaucracy. Anyhow, apart from the momentous occasion of my birthday, there's actually quite a bit going on in Edinburgh this week. If you're really quick, and really keen you can nip down to the Liquid Room tonight and catch Wild Beasts . Their latest album may be a little tepid, despite the frantic fluffing from Drowned in Sound, but Two Dancers was incredible and they are a cracking live band. Also, Yuck are [...]
I keep fretting about over-pimping my commercial enterprises on this blog, but I really should just stop worrying. Putting on live shows is not much more than an extension of me insisting on telling you what sort of music to listen to, so really there's not much difference between haranguing you about your buying habits and haranguing you about what you do in your free time really, is there. So, after a fantastic gig with The Last Battle, Dad Rocks! and Shoes and Socks Off, and a brilliant day in Anstruther with Hott Toadzzz! it's probably time to [...]
So, after the chaos of the Festival, we are back to normal service here in Ides of Toad HQ (which looks suspiciously similar to Song, by Toad HQ and bears a more than passing resemblance to Song, by Toad Records HQ). Actually, I thought I managed to get myself horribly waylaid by the Festival, but it turns out I have most of the Autumn's lineups already filled and ready to go, with only a few gaps here and there. This level of organisation rather shocks me, I have to confess, but I am sure I will find some [...]
Video: Vimeo - YouTube Photos: Flickr Audio: zip dowload (right click, save as) This session came together in an extremely short space of time, and as such I am extremely pleasantly surprised by how well it turned out - from an audio point of view in particular these are some of my favourite session recordings. We invited Milk Maid to play an Ides of Toad gig in June, they arrived the night before the gig, and we happened to [...]
I never really know how much impact putting songs in a podcast really makes, in terms of introducing them to the actual audience of the blog. I assume there are loads of regular blog readers who never go near the podcasts for a variety of reasons (no, not the swearing), but they still seem relatively popular in their own right. Having said that, people have told me excitedly that they have really got into bands from reading about them on the site, but I've never really heard the same said about the podcasts. So, here are three bands [...]
It is a very, very fine Spring day indeed, this morning in Edinburgh, and so needless to say I am going to spend it in my office talking to imaginary people on the internet. This week we are simply going to have a bit of a trawl through my inbox. As I mention halfway through the podcast, I now have unlistened albums totalling a mighty one day, eighteen hours and thirty-four minutes worth of music. So if you are wondering why I haven't reviewed this that or the other, then that probably has something to do with it. [...]
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After I made it through the intitial cloud of noise, I was pleasantly surprised by the grungy goodness of the UK's Weird Era , especially the first song on the Duck Tapes bandcamp "Garage Honeymoon", it sounds like it came off the first disc of With The Lights Out . Per usual, I feel like a lot of people will blast the blatantness of the sound, but I honestly cant stop listening and as the old idiom goes "know there is nothing new under the Sun" so how about we just listen and enjoy. [...]
Weird Era - Riches via doubledenimrecords : This crystal slice of noisy guitar-pop from Manchester’s Weird Era is recommended, as is much of whatever else you can find from them, the band record hard, with a multitude of noisy sketches in the best of art-rock traditions. This one comes on strong with its mangled MBV-esque squall and nonchalant vocals. image // shelbie diamond
Sound of 2010 a sample of some of the best songs that have soundtracked the year 1 - NIKE7UP - Rudeboy (NIKE7UP SCIROPHORIA REMIX) You can pretty much define a person on whether a mention of Rihanna makes them think of this or her recent performance on X Factor. 2 - unouomedude - Island Summer [...]
Weird Era - Summer Heights Weird Era är en duo från Manchster som tillsammans skapar riktigt mysig och hederlig shoegaze. Varannan månad kommer gruppen att släppa en ny EP som går under namnet SIDE # . Denna låt är från den SIDE 1 . Hela denna EP går att ladda hem från deras MySpace.
After getting to grips with embedding files, it is only right that Pigeon Playlist got the treatment, as well as making the individual files available for anyone who doesn't want them all on their computer. anyway, it's about time to be thinking of edition number 2, get in contact either at mbritton2@gmail.com or by the form on the contact page above: 1 Run Toto Run - Platic Gold ( fileden ) They've been featured on blogs the world [...]
Song, by Toad
Weekly Tape Deck
Head Underwater
Pigeon Post.
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Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead
Macklemore + Ryan Lewis – Can’t Hold Us (Major Lazer Remix)
L D R U – The Tropics
