What, no six week gap between freebies? Shocker. Adam Stafford There's a new album from long term blog fave Adam Stafford coming up in a couple of months. Smugly I'll now tell you that I've already heard it. It's brilliant. It'll be released by Song, by Toad Records in July, which is good, since it keeps up Adam's recent track record of releasing things with labels I really like, what with his last single having been on Gerry Loves Records and all. You can get a wee taster for [...]
I knew I'd been lazy recently, but I didn't realise quite how long it had been since the last Friday Freebies. Oops. There's probably millions of things have come out since the last time I wrote one of these, but I'll likely miss out loads of them or else this will go on forever. Here's a handful of things that are either free or name your price to keep you going. Royal Edinburgh Music Derek from Evil Hand shared a couple of songs [...]
It's another one of those weeks where I've came across very little I've liked enough to stick in the freebies, believe it or not there is some element of quality control in here. Edinburgh Man had some good stuff on his podcast this week though, so I've nicked some of that. Bianca Sneaking in late, after I'd already drafter up this post, so missing out on an cough illustrious position on the wee reciept, are the first freely available from Bianca. They [...]
It's a small but perfectly formed selection of freebies this week. Dig in and see if anything floats your boat. Walker Smith Jr. I really like two piece bands. Joining the list of bands I like who happen to only have two members are Walker Smith Jr. Kyle of Lovers Turn To Monsters was talking about this lot last week over on Scottish Fiction and it seemed like they'd be up my street. I didn't have to wait long, as they've stuck three songs up on Bandcamp to download for whatever [...]
Everyone's band name is too long this week. The Earth has revolved the sun enough times that freebies are due again, so here are some. Lovers Turn To Monsters Heaven forbid I miss the chance for a gig plug. Ahead of Saturday's gig , Lovers Turn To Monsters staged a takeover of Scottish Fiction. Included in that was a free EP of Lovers Turn Top Monsters covering songs by Paws, So Many Animal Calls, Honeyblood and Chvrches. Get that [...]
There's only a few days to go until the next Scottish Fiction/Aye Tunes/Peenko gig, so just in case you've missed me blabbing about it all month, here's a reminder of the details. Venue wise we're on the move again. The final Aye Tunes solo gig took place at The Roxy 171 at the tail end of last year, and we're taking this gig back there. We've roped in a trio of my favourite singing men with guitars for this. Headlining affairs is the magnificent Beerjacket . [...]
Hi. I like what you've done with your hair today. If you don't have any hair then I like that too. "What music can I get off the internet at minimal cost to myself this week Jim?" I hear you say. The doctors tell me this is perfectly normal though, and I shouldn't worry about it too much. They are getting me a special jacket to wear so I can cuddle myself while I hear voices asking me things on the internet. Pinact Pinact have a new EP [...]
After a week off to rest my weary head, and because there was hardly anything to post last week, here's the freebies back again. I fine line-up this week, if you ask me. But then I would say that, since I tend not to post things I think are shite. You may disagree with the quality. Machines In Heaven Long term pals of the blog Machines in Heaven have taken their sweet time to finally get round to releasing something, but I can stop badgering them about that for [...]
We didn't have time to change the poster It's time, once again, to remind you that I'm doing stuff. Tomorrow (Saturday Jan 26th, in case you aren't reading this on the day it was written) is the third of the gigs put on by myself, Neil from Scottish Fiction and Lloyd from Peenko, with the witty and creative Scottish Fiction Presents: Aye Tunes Vs Peenko title. Suggestions for snappier promotional titles welcome. I suggested SPAFT, since it includes the initials from all our blogs. This suggestion was, correctly, dismissed. [...]
I was rather hoping to get away without writing the freebies this week. There hadn't been much around, and the blog is going to be even more neglected than normal for the next wee while due to personal issues, so I was taking a week off, with a gig plug going up instead. A few things worth mentioning have popped up though, so rather than skip them for now and inevitably forget about them, here's a hastily assembled freebies. There'll still be a gig plug later too. Disclaimer: increasingly the freebies are actually name [...]
You can pay for things too. What delights has the internet thrown at us this week then? Let's have a look and find out. Fashoda Crisis Kicking us off this week is something blooming ace, from token English entry Fashoda Crisis. It's always nice to keep the Southerners involved in things. I kid, I kid. Anyway, the new Fashoda Crisis EP, The Jowls of Justic, is available as a pay what you want download here . Somewhere in the [...]
Woo, first Friday Freebies of the year, what a momentous occasion! Or not. First one I've remembered to do in a while, which is probably more momentous. Let's see what we've got this week then, along with a few things I've missed previously. The Plimptons Sadly, The Plimptons have announced their intention to pack it in, with a farewell gig at the end of March being their last outing. Shame that, since they are one of the most fun live bands around, but at least there's [...]
If you missed it, the winners of Best album, band, solo artist, single/EP, new band, blog & podcast/radio show are here . This set of results is for the lucky ones who "won" the new categories added this year. I did consider not posting these to be nice, then remembered that I'm not nice. This post is sponsored by burning bridges and pissing on chips. I didn't pick the winners though, so don't take it out on me. Worst Album/Single/EP: Despite not being released last year, [...]
Sorry, there's no glitzy results show, no D-list celebs presenting an award, or even a logo. We'll a least try and get through this without Emeli Sandé turning up though. Votes were cast, I applied the same formula I've always used to them, got a headache, and wondered again why I don't use a formula that requires less counting, but now, here, a wee bit late (now there's a surprise) are the results of the Readers' Poll for 2012. Voting was anonymous, which led to some hilarious bitchy answers, some of [...]
Oh thank goodness, that's this thing finished for another year. Now I can get back to the important work of hardly ever posting anything on the blog. For the final door of the calendar I've picked out one of my favourite Christmas songs, with a few different people putting their own spin on it. The song is Christmas (Baby Please Come Home). Written by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Phil Spector for the latter's A Christmas Gift To You album, still the best Christmas album made if you ask me, singing duties fell to Darlene [...]
Nearly finished, nearly finished... Today's Christmas song comes from the submission pile, and is ace. Loop Line are American, and their Christmas single follows in the tradition and roughly the sound of Phil Spector's A Christmas Gift for You. That's the best Christmas album ever, so a good thing to draw inspiration from. The songs will cost you fifty cents (that's like 30p or something?) but are well worth such a tiny amount of money. Stream below, download here . Wishlist by Loop Line
It's almost time to finish off all the treats and toss the cardboard and plastic packaging of the advent calendar into a landfill site for another year. Almost, but not quite. Leading us into the last days are Verse Metrics, long terms favouties of the blog, and former gig guests at that. After a fairly lengthy quiet spell Verse Metrics popped up again recently with a new EP, Radians . It was, rather unsurprisingly, worth waiting for. For Christmas, Verse Metrics have had a go at covering Mogwai. You can hear and download [...]
While I try to find time to write up my best of lists for the year it's time again to have the traditional* Readers' Poll. There's a couple of changes this year. The main one being that hardly anyone bothers to email in answers, so I've set up a wee survey page to fill in instead. Since I'm limited to 10 questions a few of the more redundant categories have been cut out this year. I could have kept them in, but after encouragement from people who probably just want to see me burn bridges and get a kicking, [...]
Here's the new Christmas song from Dinosaurs Are Shit Dragons. It's called Crying and Wanking (at Christmas) and is available to download here . I don't think I really need to add any more. Crying and Wanking (at Christmas) by Dinosaurs Are Shit Dragons
l loves me some Eureka Machines. Both their albums released to date have been on my year end best of lists - I still need to whip this year's one into shape - and their third album is currently in the works, you can find out more about that here . Here's their take on an old festive favourite. Eureka Machines - Silent Night
Aye Tunes
Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead
Spicy Tempeh and Broccoli Rabe Protein Punched by City Light, Magic Man and Smallpools
WONGIE SONG OF THE WEEK: jessie j feat big sean and dizzee rascal - wild
Equatorial Guinea
