Butcher Boy If you sign up to Damaged Goods mailing list then they'll send you 11 free tracks, which includes a song from Glasgow outfit Butcher Boy's recent album Helping Hands. Field Music Arguably the most under-rated band in the UK at the moment, Field Music are a abnd who continue to just get better and better. They're soon going to release their new album Plumb, as a wee teaser they've posted up the track "A New Town" for free download on Stereogum . [...]
Good things come to those who wait apparently, in Django Django's case they really did make us wait. It was way back in May of 2009 that I ran a tiny wee introduction post on the band, since then the band have been taking pretty slowly with the odd single here and there, they've spent the past few years doing the odd tour here and there. You'd hardly call them prolific, but then again they have just spent the past three years holed up in the East Londonbedroom of their drummer, producer and de facto leader David [...]
It's not really much of a secret that I am a big fan of Sparrow and the Workshop, so when they got in touch to let me know that they had just released a new video for the song You Don't Trust Anyone, I was always going to post it up. Not only is it a cracking wee video, but it also has a wee back story to go with it, here's Jill from the band to tell you a bit more about it... " Last year we had the opportunity to propose a video [...]
Track Listing 1. My Alabama 2. St Petersberg 3. Broken Crown 4. Statues Download
I don't know about you, but I was genuinely gutted last year when Mitchell Museum decided to take an indefinite hiatus. Being the talented bunch that they are, I guess it was always inevitable that they'd resurface with other musical projects sooner than later. It was only recently that Kev from the Moth & The Mirror started raving about how great, former Mitchell Museum drummer, Raindeer's new project, Behold... The Old Bear was. At first I was a bit hesitant as it turned out that Kev was actually also in the band, however, after asking Raindeer to send me a [...]
My second choice for a band to watch out for in 2012 are Glasgow five piece, Olympic Swimmers, a band who have been simmering away quite nicely for a few years now. Featuring members of Strike The Colours, The Unwinding Hours and the soon to be defunct Take A Worm For A Walk Week, they are all set to step step into the lime light with the release of their debut album which is due out later this year. Hello, I'm Lloyd. Who on earth are you? [...]
Track Listing 1. Catherine 1956 2. Sore Tummy 3. Chair (Big Deal cover) Download
So as the end of year polls start to peter out, it's that time of year when the blogosphere starts to make their predictions of what they expect to be big in 2012, or in some bloggers cases they choose to dismiss these kind of list. Personally I normally find that the artists that I expect to make some kind of impact aren't normally my cup of tea. So rather than try and predict who's going to 'make it big' this year, I thought I'd try and introduce you to a few names that you might not have heard much [...]
Would you care to introduce yourself? I'm reluctant to use the 3rd person, but we're Imaginary Witch. For the moment it's Coralie Bougerra on drums and Sandy Bouttell on guitar/vocals. Our name is meaningless and was openly lifted from '90s British comedy programming. It resonated with us both due to the presence of iambic trimetre and our collected love for the cat/broom/pointy hat. How would you describe the music you make? Well it falls into being [...]
Those nice folk at Born To Wide, Scotland's only regular music-business seminar night, have announced that their first seminar of the year will take place next month and it is going to be devoted to music festivals and the opportunities that they can offer to emerging acts. Taking place at their regular haunt, Edinburgh's Electric Circus, the event will be held on Thursday 2 February, it will detail the selection procedure, fees, what artists are offered in terms of promotion and how they can make the best use of the opportunity. To date they've [...]
What terrible manners I have, I blatantly forgot to wish you all a very happy new year, not that it matters one iota to you guys. I guess that most of you will have been out and about for the bells, but for me I saw the new year in up north with my family, which involved copious amounts of food and drink, a bonfire at the bells plus I also caught a bit of the BBC's Hogmanay celebrations. Which if you missed it, featured a couple of songs from none other than Admiral Fallow, who performed Squealing Pigs and [...]
The Twilight Sad Kilsyth's finest sons are all set to release their much anticipated third album (proper), No One Can Ever Know, next month. Having heard the album I reckon it's going to take a lot of folk by surprise with the new direction they've taken. As a wee teaser of what to expect, you can download Another Bed from it for free via both the Skinny and Spin . Aloha Tigers! My good friend Ian, who used to run the blog Have Fun At Dinner has set [...]
It might seem a bit odd to be releasing a video for a single which came out back in April of last year, but that's exactly what Glasgow based six piece, Washington Irving have done. Having just secured funding to record their debut album, the band are obviously in a jubilant mood, so to celebrate they made a video of a man building a shed in the middle of a forest. Makes perfect sense to me.
So as the end of year album polls start to fizzle out, it's time for everyone to start making their predictions as to what they think is going to be 'big in 2012'. The BBC started announcing their Sound of 2012 tips for the year ahead, as an alternative a group of UK music bloggers were canvased to see what artists they hoped to be big this year. The winner turned out to be a girl-fronted indiefunk outfit from Brooklyn by the name of Friends. The top five artists are listed below, includes representation from Scottish outfit French [...]
Pensioner Our very own Pensioner are very kindly offering fans the chance to snap up their cracking debut album Yearlings for free on their Bandcamp page. Be quick mind as this offer is only going to be available for a few more days. Aerials Up Those lovely Aerials Up kids are giving away a free download of arguably their best song, All Your Mothers Daughters here . IndianRedLopez As a Christmas gift to us all, Aberdeenshire's finest, IndianRedLopez have posted up their cover [...]
With the New Year fast approaches, here's the last in my series of Artists Albums of the Year for 2011. To finish off the year we have some pretty fine choices from the likes of Aerials Up, Inspector Tapehead, Miaoux Miaoux, Woodenbox, The Seventeenth Century, Edinburgh School for the Deaf, Ghost Pants and Sojourner. Villagers by Becoming a Jackel chosen by Debbie Kate ( Aerials Up ) On a bored [...]
For those of you with good memories, you might recall that I featured Happy Particles as one of my Ones To Watch in 2011. At that time I had heard that their album was completed and I imagined that they'd be snapped up in no time. Then again things don't always turn out as you expect. In a world filled with landfill indie, I can't help but feel disappointed that their stunning debut album wasn't snapped up by an established indie label. So on Christmas Day, as you stuffed your faces and drank to excess (or was that [...]
Track Listing 1. Lonely This Christmas (Mud Cover) 2. A Not So Silent Night Before Christmas Download
Frightened Rabbit Just when I thought I had this weeks Freebies post all finished up cropped two free tunes from two of my favourite bands. First off we have the Frabbit boys with their new Christmas tune, Cheap Gold which you can download for nowt from their Soundcloud page. The band have also just announced that they'll be playing at the HMV Picture House in Edinburgh on the 10th of February. Tickets for the gig are on sale now . The Twilight Sad The other surprise freebie came from [...]
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