Glasgow Podcart is a Scottish based music/arts website which produces weekly podcasts showcasing the best in grass roots and unsigned artists, not just from Scotland, but around the world. The podcast endeavors to expose as much new talent as possible, no matter what style, what size, or how established—Glasgow Podcart believes everyone deserves a platform to showcase their work. The ladies of Glasgow Podcart, Halina and Kirsten, are sharing this platform with TVD with both missives from Glasgow you’ll only find right here, and of course the podcast itself. —Ed. [...]
Glasgow Podcart is a Scottish based music/arts website which produces weekly podcasts showcasing the best in grass roots and unsigned artists, not just from Scotland, but around the world. The podcast endeavors to expose as much new talent as possible, no matter what style, what size, or how established—Glasgow Podcart believes everyone deserves a platform to showcase their work. The ladies of Glasgow Podcart, Halina and Kirsten, begin sharing this platform with TVD this week, with both missives from Glasgow you'll only find at TVD each week, and of course the podcast itself. —Ed. [...]
Glasgow Podcart is a Scottish based music/arts website which produces weekly podcasts showcasing the best in grass roots and unsigned artists, not just from Scotland, but around the world. The podcast endeavors to expose as much new talent as possible, no matter what style, what size, or how established—Glasgow Podcart believes everyone deserves a platform to showcase their work. The ladies of Glasgow Podcart, Halina and Kirsten, begin sharing this platform with TVD this week, with both missives from Glasgow you'll only find at TVD each week, and of course the podcast itself. —Ed. [...]
t's been a while since I did one of my news round up posts, so I guess just now is as good a time as any... Our good friends over at Glasgow Podcart celebrated their 100 th podcast this week, so a big congratulations goes out Halina and all the gang. To celebrate the latest shows was recorded in 45 A Side Studios, with special guest Vic Galloway and an array of tunes including Hidden Orchestra, Salo , Wounded Knee, [...]
Morning. A couple of slightly self-aggrandising bits and pieces this morning, if you can bear it. Sorry. I'll be as brief as I can. Firstly, The Recommender's annual Bloggers' Blog of the Year vote is going on, so if you write a music blog of any description you have until the end of the month to cast your vote. Preferably for me of course, but I will probably be able to forgive you if you like other blogs better. Maybe not though. Secondly, there is an hour-and-a-half desert island discs interview with me [...]
I know I keep moaning about how tired I am, today I have done relatively little but I still feel whacked. Please take this into consideration if you start to think that this post is a bit of ramble... This week sees innovative arts facility, Platform celebrating their 5th birthday, in the next few weeks they have a series of special gigs lined up. Based out in Easterhouse in the East End of Glasgow, Platform will be hosting Ethiopian, Mulatu Astatke on the 30th June, were he will [...]
As I am sure that most of you are well aware, I am pretty good friends with the Glasgow Podcart crew. So last week I sent them a cheeky wee email asking if they could send me the MP3s of a session they recorded with Craig B from The Unwinding Hours, they were kind enough to oblige and they even said I could share the songs with all of you. Ain't that kind of them! Recorded in Halina from the Podcart's living room, the session is up to stream now on this weeks podcast. It also features a wee interview [...]
Ever since I scrapped my Weekly Roundup posts I've ended up with loads of bits of news that I should share with you all, but my rigid structure has stifled things a wee bit. Hence every once in a while when I get some free time I'm going to post up one of these random news posts. First up we have a wee reminder that you only have until midnight tomorrow (Thursday 10th) to get yourself discounted Early Bird tickets for this years Wide Days event in Edinburgh. For those of you who don't know, [...]
Back in November I was ask to take part in Peenko 's annual Scottish Bloggers and Music Sites (Scottish BAMS.....and if you're Scottish you'll get the double entendre there) rundown. Because I'm Scottish I qualified for such an honour and it's my pleasure to announce that after much tallying and I'm sure many a drink, Lloyd (Peenko) has compiled this year's top albums as voted on by other Scottish blog and site owners. The winner is none other than my own Chillwave/Hardcore (Chillcore) band Horse Moustache. I did not see that one coming, at all, especially since [...]
It seems like it's been a while since I've had some damn fine Folk music on the site, which is kinda weird since I come from the land who not only invented Folk music, but also grass, Jesus, and steam. Steam! I've been listening to a bunch of Folk music, too, and I've been sent a fair amount of it also, but none of it caught my eye. Some was alright and some was just atrocious, but even with the half-decent stuff I really only post something if I can write something about it, and considering my writing [...]
Meursault God Don't Like it have a free Download of Meursault’s ' Crank Resolutions ' up for grabs. It's taken from their 2nd album “All Creatures will Make Merry” which is due out at the end of May. Wounded Knee I caught Drew aka 'Wounded Knee' last week at the warm up to the Dead Parrots 3rd birthday bash, alongside the ever fabulous RM Hubbert. Both of them put on top performances, so I must admit that I was well chuffed when I stumbled across his newest release, The Ayrtime.Org EP, it's [...]
The National I was a bit late in actually listening to The National, it wasn't until about a year after 'Boxer' was released that I cottoned on what I was missing out on. My fail, I know. On the plus side though I did have one hell of a back catalogue to work my way through. Anyway, I digress, on Tuesday Lauren Laverne debuted new “Bloddbuzz Ohio” on her 6Music show. This led to several blogs posting radio rips of it. In reaction to this their label 4AD have posted a high quality version of the song to [...]
I first came across the Glasgow Podcart after Boab introduced me to Sean and Halina at a Yahweh and applesofenergy gig last year. Due to the consumption of a few cans of the finest Red Stripe, my memories of that evening are a bit blurry, I do remember being bowled over about how passionate they both were about music and what they wanted to do with the Podcart. My other memory is of rambling utter shit at Sean for quite a long time, I still cringe when I recall that moment. The following day, I was hungover in [...]
Time for some roundtable chat internet-style hot air. A couple of days ago The Pop Cop had a bit of a dig at The Scotsman's Under the Radar blog, and today UtR responded . The accusation was of a lack of quality control, and how the volume of writing which their six writers produces has led to some very mediocre bands being covered. UtR responded by saying that they aren't necessarily setting all of these bands up as the Next Great Big Thing, and that they're under no pressure to fill column inches, [...]
I discovered The Seventeenth Century courtesy of Halina and her team of devilish minions over at Glasgow PodcART a couple of weeks ago. I've tried emailing the band to see about buying a copy of their EP, but no response, so I ended up having to just rip it off MySpace. Still, I'm sure I'll get the chance to make up for it in the future as I am pretty confident we will be hearing more from these lads over the next year or so. People seem to be talking their folky-sounding acoustic indie [...]
There seem to be a lot of things happening on the internet in and around the Scottish music scene at the moment. This is nice, because for a while it seemed like the only real participants in McMusic 2.0 were the old stagers like myself, 17 Seconds , The Vinyl Villain , The Pop Cop , And Before the First Kiss (RIP for now) and Manic Pop Thrills . We can welcome a couple of new sites to the fold as well, in the form of The Steinberg Principle , Across the [...]
The Vinyl District
Peenko
Song, by Toad
Listen Before You Buy
Things Change And So Do We (I)
Watch Kurt Vile Play Letterman
Escucha la nueva explosión dance de MANS, “Various Lovers”
