It’s That Gobshite Again! Is He Never Off the Air?!
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you may have picked up that I was on Freshair at the weekend. For the uninitiated, that’s Edinburgh Uni’s student radio station which has an annual Festival...
View ArticleGratuitous Plugs for Stuff We Like
So we’re, ahem, tossing off the shackles of our usual WE ONLY REVIEWS ALBUM REVIEWS AND DO Q&As WITH BANDS, WE DON’T DO NEWS, NO WE WON’T ‘JUST PUT UP YOUR VIDEO’ mantra and, well, doing exactly...
View ArticleThe Best Albums of 2011 – 10-6
10. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy Annie Clark is now a VERY BIG DEAL. This hotly anticipated follow-up to 2009’s acclaimed Actor (in turn a successor to the wonderful Marry Me) did not disappoint,...
View ArticleLast Post on the 2011 Bugle
Iiiiiiit’s Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaas! And that can mean only one thing – the BAMS (Blogs and Music Sites Scotland) are back. The unofficial guild/club/clique voted High Violet by the...
View ArticleBandcrush: Bottle of Evil
Not everything in the judging process for this year’s Radar Prize took our fancy. In fact, let’s be honest, there was rather a lot that really, really didn’t. But in the many, many dozens of acts that...
View ArticleLeviathan
Album of the Week: The Son(s) – Leviathan After the success of their/his self-titled debut album, the mysterious beast known as ‘the Son(s)’ is back with a six track mini album. Now we know what you’re...
View ArticleBandcrush: The State Broadcasters
Having successfully returned to an old favourite in the Son(s) a few weeks back, Olive Grove Records have shown they’re not content to rest on their laurels and have picked up the State Broadcasters....
View ArticleThe Tidal Wave of Indifference Sessions
So with a faint whiff of inevitability, after blogging, promoting, DJing and presenting, we’re moving into putting out other people’s songs. This won’t be a ‘proper’ record label but Indifference...
View ArticleMurmuration
Album of the Week: Jo Mango – Murmuration To say Jo Mango’s second album has been a while coming is like suggesting Axl Rose is a studio perfectionist. Six years have passed since the release of...
View ArticleThe Best EPs of 2012
Yeah, so, we drone on constantly about our love of the album format and how our unshakable desire for full length records is what drives this blog. But this year, finally, we woke up to the fact that...
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