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Christmas is saved, Frightened Rabbit have dropped a new festive tune!

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TweetShare We’re almost there.  It’s almost time, time for We Were Promised Jetpacks to drop the follow-up to their fiercly raucous debut album “These Four Walls”. Monster songs like “Quiet Little Voices” and “It’s Thunder And Lightning” seem to have been replaced with equally as gargantuan songs like “Act On Impulse” and this new song [...]

TweetShare My good buddy Peenko from back home started his own record label earlier this year and one of the first releases on said label is a super-group of Scottish musicianship. Containing members from Frightened Rabbit, Arab Strap, The Reindeer Section, Admiral Fallow, and Smoke Jaguar, the band and label are getting ready to drop their debut [...]

TweetShare A few days ago Frightened Rabbit embarked on a supporting tour with Death Cab For Cutie across the U.S., and as they’re prone to do on a daily basis the band were posting updates about it on their Twitter/Facebook pages. One such update said this: “Those of you at The Grog Shop tonight get [...]

TweetShare A top tip for anyone who wants me to pay attention to their music: name-drop Chemikal Underground. I mean, don’t just lie and claim you’re signed to them, or anything; but if there is a connection, it’s definitely worth flagging up. Will Hanson did. And lo, I find myself writing about him. Following the break-up [...]

TweetShare My current job has one big thing going for it; They allow me to listen to my own music, all day, at volume. This works in both good and bad ways.  It means I can listen to anything I want, whenever I want to which also mean no shitty radio stations with ads. But [...]

TweetShare Probably to the dismay of LBYB’s fearless leader, Frank, I know very little about Scotland.  I know it’s part of the UK, the accents are weird (sometimes sexy), they like soccer (yawn), and something about a Loch Ness monster.  But who cares about all that because aside from the fact that it’s apparently also [...]

TweetShare Now before you start giving me shit for posting Britney Spears, I DON’T CARE! Actually I do, but I’m not posting Britney I’m posting The Morning Benders. Just like when ceo did a cover of “Halo” by Beyonce or Frightened Rabbit did “Hit Me Baby One More Time”, remixes are in the same vein. [...]

TweetShare Artist: Frightened Rabbit Hometown: Selkirk, Scotland Members: Scott Hutchison, Grant Hutchison, Billy Kennedy, Andy Monaghan, Gordon Skene Formed: 2003 Released: 2010 Genre: Indie, Rock, Folk Label: Fat Cat Records Singles: “Swim Until You Can’t See Land”, “Nothing Like You”, “Living In Colour”, “The Lonliness And The Scream” Connect: MySpace | Facebook | Website | Twitter Buy The Album: [...]

TweetShare It’s getting cold in Scotland. Between the August Fringe and New Year’s Hogmanay the best thing to do is probably hole yourself up in a quaint little tavern (log fire necessary) and enjoy a few ales (it’s too cold for lager, don’t be daft) and hope your local talent will amount to something as [...]

TweetShare Having been away from home (Scotland) for about seven years now, I’ve fallen out of touch with the local music scene, but thanks to blogs like Peenko and Ayetunes they’ve managed to keep me up to date with some of the amazing new music that’s coming out of Scotland at the moment. Starting this [...]

TweetShare Just sent out to their mailing list, Frightened Rabbit included a brand new song, this is Scott’s “attempt at explaining a bit about the song… As is often the case, death rears its head. Most days, I think briefly about the way in which I may die, and what will be left behind aside [...]

TweetShare An entire album being given away as a free download?  Those can be hard to come by these days, you might think that if someone is giving away an entire album they spent time recording, it must be pretty bad.  The digital equivalent of a second-hand shop and their bargain bins, you might think. [...]

TweetShare I read about this last week when it was making the blog rounds, but I didn’t actually watch the video until Peenko asked me if I was able to.  You see, Peenko lives in Scotland and can’t view the video because of lame copyright/licensing laws.  I on the other hand, even though I’m from [...]

TweetShare Starting off with a simple folk-y guitar melody, the single from Scotland’s Admiral Fallow then breaks into a shuffling drumbeat, with rousing male-female vocals, jazz flourishes from clarinet and double bass, and a chorus that inspires you to sing along. I’m a fan of musicians with Scottish accents (see also: Biffy Clyro, Malcolm Middleton, [...]