Enjoy 'A Rumour In Africa' below. Be certain to visit Errors on MySpace. MP3: Errors - Bridge Or Cloud (Twilight Sad Mix)

Amplifier - The Ways Of Amplifier Killing Joke - Blood On Your Hands Kitty Wu - Love Letters Kitty Wu - Gold Chain Pg.Lost - Jura Nedry - Apples & Pears Amplifier - My Corrosion Gazpacho - Desert Flight Gazpacho - The Walk Part I Gazpacho - The Walk Part II Heroes & Zeros - Into The Light Mle[e] - A World Machine Mle[e] - Simon Says These New Puritans - We Want War The New Loud - Don't Dance The Twilight Sad - I [...]

Download Zip File 1. The Century - Heartbreak ( Keepreal Creative Label ) This is a track from the latest Keepreal compilation " Keepreal vol 2" which can be downloaded in full here . 2. Sleep In - Skin (Enemies List) [...]

With between 50-100 promo emails coming through each day, it can be hard to give due coverage to everything I'd like to feature. Here are some songs I've been sent which deserve more of your time and mine. A 19 year-old dude from Indiana named Joseph Denny who makes music under the name of Spirit Spine . He's got many a blogger watching him already. He took his name from a '70s documentary about people with severed spinal cords who still feel they can walk. His music is like an [...]
Frightened Rabbit @ Pitchfork Festival 2009 ( more by Joseph Xu ) Spin : Why Frightened Rabbit? "When I first started playing," says singer-guitarist Scott Hutchison, "I was a solo act and, unfortunately, Scott Hutchison is not a catchy band name at all. I thought of Frightened Rabbit because it was a nickname given to me by my mum when I was younger. I was incredibly shy as a child, almost chronically so. My parents would take me to their friends' houses and I'd be expected to play [...]
Author Alice Walker remembers Howard Zinn in the Boston Globe . I was Howard's student for only a semester, but in fact, I have learned from him all my life. His way with resistance: steady, persistent, impersonal, often with humor, is a teaching I cherish. Whenever I've been arrested, I've thought of him. I see policemen as victims of the very system they're hired to defend, as I know he did. I see soldiers in the same way. In some ways, Howie was an extension of my father, whom he never met. My father [...]
The Twilight Sad - "The Room." 73 Out 3/29 on Fat Cat
You heard me. Frightened Rabbit is going on an extensive American tour in support of their forthcoming third full-length, The Winter of Mixed Drinks , due out March 9. This doesn't happen particularly often, so don't miss it. Seriously, don't. If I hear any more about this negligence of yours, I'm really going to get angry. It's just selfish, you know? You you you. Always about you. See a band live, for a change. Live a little. Gosh. Frightened Rabbit - "Head Rolls Off" [MP3] March 17 - Austin, Texas [...]
Probably feeling a little inspired by Euan 's popular playlist of Scottish bands earlier in the month, (click here if you missed that) I figured why not get a guest mixtape from one of those featured? The Twilight Sad's guitarist Andy rustled up this lot for us: 1. Burning Star Core - White Swords in a Black Castle 2. The Birthday Party - The Friend Catcher 3. Jean-Claude Vannier - Je M'Apelle Geraldine (mid tempo) 4. Can - Vitamin C [...]

Moving Clocks Run Slow - We Were Promised Jetpacks I've still got a set of "best of the aughts" posts coming up. I'll try to get those out before the end of January. In the meantime, though, I've got some bits and pieces to clean up of the music I enjoyed last year but couldn't quite find a spot for on my lists and never got around to talking about otherwise. First is We Were Promised Jetpacks , who dwell quite nicely in the space carved out by fellow Scottish bands like Frightened [...]
We Were Promised Jetpacks will be touring beginning in February in support of their critically acclaimed album, These Four Walls, out now on FatCat. In 2009 We Were Promised Jetpacks performed at SXSW and toured the U.S. in the fall along with labelmates, Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad and BrakesBrakesBrakes. This is We Were Promised [...]
Four months after finishing a North American tour with FatCat labelmates Frightened Rabbits, The Twilight Sad, and BrakesBrakesBrakes, indie rockers We Were Promised Jetpacks will be back on the road again next month. This time, the Edinburgh, Scotland four-piece will be on its own - the first headlining tour for the group. The band is currently touring Europe, and will hit stops in the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy and elsewhere. At the month's end, the guys will cross the Atlantic for a tour spanning the U.S., beginning at New York's Bowery Ballroom on February 11, [...]

In my Albums of the year post at the tail end of 2009, I mentioned that there were a bunch of records by bands I loved that I hadn't got round to listening to yet. This week, I finally got round to listening to The Twilight Sad's second album, "Forget The Night Ahead". Long-term readers may recall me getting earache following their tinnitus-inducing show at the ICA . Quite frankly, it was worth it. The Sun! It Burns! The [...]

Pavement The American indie-legends are set to release their best of album , 'Quarantine The Past' in March, which will feature 23 tracks spanning their entire career from 1989 to 1999. In celebration (promotion) of this, they have put a wee taster up as a free download, a remastered version of 'Gold Soundz ', download yourself a copy here . Evening Chorus If you missed out on my post on the Evening Chorus the other week, then now is your chance to get [...]

When we launched The Pop Cop's competition to find the Best Scottish live music photo of 2009, what we didn't tell you was that we had lined up a very special guest to judge the entries - the world-renowned Glasgow-born photographer HARRY BENSON . The man is a legend. He got his first break when he travelled with The Beatles to America in 1964, taking some of the band's most iconic shots. Since then, Mr Benson has photographed every US president from Eisenhower [...]
My fascination with Sweden and it's music continues. I actually like this (thanks Pitchfork for the original post): If you do the Twitter thing, here are a few Labrador Records (Sweden) acts to follow: @skwbn @acidhousekings @theradiodept @starletmusic @pallers @club8music Ok...what have I been doing? Nothing worth blogging. I seem to re-tweet more than blog. I see a ton of great info via Twitter. Funny how I have had more time off and I have produced less. When life is busy, I feel like I might miss out on something, so I pay more [...]

In our never-ending quest to dig up some great bands that cost less than a corned beef sandwich at Katz's Deli, we bring you another round of Blips. Blips highlights some great bands that are largely still in their larvae stage, but will soon morph into their beautiful butterfly. In this edition, we have some really cool new music, so take a sec, poke around the bands' various websites, and see what you think of these three under the radar acts… We Were Promised Jetpacks [...]

Frank Yang When it first got out that guitar-god-who-walks-amongst-u s Johnny Marr had joined English sibling-trio The Cribs , the initial reaction was skepticism. After all, if run through the NME de-hyperbolizer, the truth was probably more like he crossed paths with a Jarman or three on the street and said "hello" - and anyways, wasn't Marr already occupied as a full-fledged member of Modest Mouse ? Well, yes, but it seems that Marr is almost as good at time management as he is at guitar because as the band's fourth [...]

Frank Yang When it first got out that guitar-god-who-walks-amongst-u s Johnny Marr had joined English sibling-trio The Cribs , the initial reaction was skepticism. After all, if run through the NME de-hyperbolizer, the truth was probably more like he crossed paths with a Jarman or three on the street and said "hello" - and anyways, wasn't Marr already occupied as a full-fledged member of Modest Mouse ? Well, yes, but it seems that Marr is almost as good at time management as he is at guitar because as the band's fourth [...]
Syv skribenter har igennem de sidste par uger listet deres 10 yndlingsalbums fra det forgangne år (en enkelt begrænsede sig dog til 8.) Hele 49 forskellige albums blev fremhævet, men kun 11 fandt vej til 2 eller flere lister. I det regnskab blev Grizzly Bear, Arctic Monkeys og Phoenix topscorere med hver 4 nomineringer, men de kunne naturligvis blive overhalet af bands med højere placeringer – eksempelvis Animal Collective, som kun figurerede på 2 lister, men her var der i begge tilfælde tale om førstepladser. I øvrigt er Animal Collective det eneste band, der toppede mere end én liste. De [...]