If you've followed me on Facebook before you know that I enjoy cooking (understatement!) and like to post pictures of whatever food I make. In the RV it's a little bit more challenging to go on any culinary adventures. I try my best but work space is limited as well as cupboard space and having lived in this thing for about two months I'm not quite stocked up on spices and tools either. We're also on a budget whereas at home we almost never got around to eating those leftovers. But as someone said - musicians tend to [...]
More of an update than anything really. I posted about Aubert's Lost / Found a few days ago, but at the time it was only available as a purchasable cassette; now it's been released as a free download and it really is worth getting. Apologies for the repetition but I do really like it that much. Check out our previous mentions of him here . DOWNLOAD/STREAM 'Lost / Found' FROM BANDCAMP HERE Mark Aubert: Tumblr • Facebook • [...]
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 . [...]
So, what's happening with you lot this week? I myself am getting ready to do a spot of recording with Waiters and Sex Hands, who are up from Manchester to put together a split 123 which we'll be releasing in, er... April, I think, assuming all goes well. So, once more to offend the neighbours with the battering of drums and the sound of loud guitars. The good news is that Mrs. Toad is off to the States on grown-up business this week, so that's at least one less person to annoy with the racket and the mess. [...]
Oh my giddy aunt this is nice. A 20 minute mix from Mark Aubert full to the brim of mellow, smooth, sample-laden beats. I've put some Mark Aubert on here before, with this gorgeous isntrumental a few weeks back which is indisputably one of my favourite tracks of last year. Mark Aubert is a young boy from USA. He left computer, gets few samplers, box of vynils and pair of old cassette tape players - he did not fiddle with anything. Instrumental hip hop? Experimental? Old School vibes? For sure. [...]
Geographically speaking, I don't think I could be further from Scotland and still be in the UK. You'd never guess that from reading this blog however, as Scottish acts seem to be dominating my tastes for the last few years. 2011 has been no exception, and four albums on this list have their roots firmly planted north of the borders. As well as being a year for Scots, 2011 appears to be the year of the Return To Form. In itself this is a good thing, as recent years have seen more disappointing highly-hy ped albums than good ones, but it means there's a [...]
11.David Thomas Broughton - Ain't Got No Sole The first song we heard from DTB's fantastic album, and perhaps the poppiest of the lot. Catchy, unusual and immensely hummable. 12.Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms Another album from which it is tricky to extricate just one song as a highlight, but for some reason I'm giving this the nod above Jesus Fever or Puppet to the Man . I think it's the most late night and glass of red winey song on the album, but it's close. 13.The [...]
The Ex – Catch My ShoeDownload "Cold Weather is Back" and "Eoleyo" The Express – The ExpressDownload "Nobody Knows" Family Lumber – Look to the SidelinesDownload "No Worries" Figurines – FigurinesDownload "New Colors" Fleet Foxes – Helplessness BluesDownload "Helplessness Blues"...
Right, all the amateurs have had a go, and we've seen disturbing amounts of Bon Iver and PJ Harvey on lists from Bradford to Boston this year, but it's time for those of us who really know what's good and what isn't to step up and set the record straight. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the definitive list of what's been good this year, so you can all stop pretending to care what Drowned in Sound or Pitchfork think, and find out what you should really be thinking about music. That's all bollocks of [...]
Well, after last year's neck-and-neck battle between Meursault and The National, this year's Song, by Toad Readers' Top Five Albums was something of a stroll by comparison. Although the field behind this album was congested, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins' Diamond Mine was a comfortable winner in the end. Whilst I doubt this quite makes up for missing out on the Mercury Prize to P.J. Harvey, it's interesting to note that after a very strong initial showing, she didn't even make the top five of this particular list. And you can bet your arse she won't [...]
logo designed by Bob Rafferty Three years ago I decided that it might be fun to run a poll amongst my fellow bloggers and folk who run music sites in Scotland, to try and find out what the definitive album of that year really was. In its inaugural year The Phantom Band pipped Animal Collective to claim top spot, then last year I did it all again with The National topping that list. This year I managed to rope in a whopping 47 folk to take part in choosing their [...]
TRIX takes to round two, on Friday December 16th, for the house-bass fusion to warm up for its NYE East London warehouse debut alongside Beat Dimension. Boddika's retro-acid flavour accompanies Dark Sky's eclectic explorations. Fresh out of Paris French Fries brings tribal electronica to town whilst leading light Eliphino's garage inspiration will be reaching new heights having released on Hoya Hoya and Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Electric series while Daily Street and Deadplate founder Synamatix hosts a variety of funk, soul, house and hip-hop. Doc Daneeka's Ten Thousand Yen imprint [...]
And so it begins... I did warn you at the end of last week I did warn you that I would be starting on my numerous end of year polls. Following on from the success of last years series of posts I have decided to run my Artists Albums of the Year, which basically meant that I went back to any of the bands and artists that have featured in my Scots Way-Hay posts over the past couple of years. To kick us off here are the choices of Happy Particles, Discopolis, John Knox Sex Club, Come on Gang! , [...]
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photo: 'particles' song: cocorosie - "lemonade" [mp3] | web "it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - e.e. cummings it's a funny thing. thinking about what exactly we're made of [genetics, blood, sinew] and how those little particles play into the bigger picture of who we become. it's an even funnier thing to think about whether or not we were already destined to become something. who i was. who i am now. who i will be. whether it is encoded somewhere - anywhere - that [...]
Radio Magnetic were at this year's Homegame festival armed with cameras and captured a series of sessions in their wee cottage in Pittenweem. Our particular fave is from MPC master Kev Sim AKA River of Slime . The Slime was first unleashed in the form of "Volume One" on our Phuturelabs imprint and since then he's gone on to spread his slimey goodness around the world. Watch a track below and download both parts of his Pittenweem live set under the vid. Downloads: [...]
Boutique music company, Rare Finds, is proud to present RARE FINDS 2011, showcasing the best independent bands in Australia on December 3rd at The Zoo in Brisbane. Ticketholders will also receive a free 13-track sampler album, with tracks from all the bands and including a special Mars Volta remix of The Dead Leaves single, If The Shoe Fits. Important details 3rd December at The Zoo (two stages) Doors 7pm | 18+ Tickets: zoo.oztix.com.au Listen Rare Finds Headliners, [...]
Scottish folk-rockers King Creosote played their sophomore tour in the country recently . The band played at The Blflat Bar in Bangalore on November 18, and followed it up with a performance on The Dewarists Stage at the Bacardi NH7 Weekender (more here ). The gig was opened by label-mates FOUND and The Pictish Trail (who also played The Other Stage at the festival). Together, these three artists go by the moniker the Fence Collective. During King Creosote's first tour of the country , the band played New Delhi and [...]
The Dewarists Stage on day three of the Bacardi NH7 Weekender saw an array of fusion bands that take over the show. The only ones that didn't fall into this category was quirky indie Scotsman, Fence Collective. The main highlights of the stage were rock giants Indian Ocean and Bangalore folk-rockers Swarathma . King Creosote and the Fence Collective Straight from the cold air of Fife, Scotland, to the hot heat of the Laxmi Lawns, this friendly seven-piece indie crew, brought a quirky and odd Scot humour to the start [...]
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