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French Wives hail from Glasgow, Scotland and wish they had an interesting back-story as to how the band formed. Instead, they’ve got some great tunes to serve as their introduction.

TweetShare On the 14th of September Rudi Mikhail Zygadlo will turn 23 and Pictures Music will be releasing his second album Achtung! To judge by “Variously Made Men” there is a lot to watch out from Glasgow. The fusion between Dubstep and Hip-hop which protruded the first album “Great Western Laymen” is still there.  The accordion and [...]

TweetShare Buy the album on Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 They say never judge a book by its cover, and I assume this rule also applies to albums, so I usually never do.  A blind (or maybe not so blind) judgement I do indulge in, though, is judging a record by its label.  In this case, [...]

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 Even though they’ve been lauded from wherever you are now, to your antipode, and even though they’re from same fair land as I, Mogwai were just never a band I spent much time with. Maybe in my formative years as a teenager I was more concerned with Blink-182, Bloodhound Gang, and the back catalogue [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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TweetShare It seems like there are quality bands popping up in Scotland at an alarming rate at the moment, and what makes it so exciting is that they aren’t all tied to a single sound, or movement, they are spread across the musical landscape evenly. So for every 16-year old Dubstep producer like Hangman you [...]

TweetShare Some bands become so inextricably linked with their city that it’s hard to think of one without the other. For instance, The Strokes = New York, Pulp = Sheffield and Mogwai definitely = Glasgow. Despite being a largely instrumental band, they have managed to reference their home city and its culture in their song [...]

TweetShare Go on Scotland, go do your thing (I know Frank is all about the homeland); as he should be, especially with good music coming out of it like Aerials Up. Aerials Up is an outfit from Glasgow, making some serious noise this past year. This is a good one, a seven piecer with a [...]

TweetShare I fully believe that your current environment and state of life can make or break an album for you. An album listened to in the dead of Winter, dark and cold and dreary, can sound completely different when listened to in the blistering sun of Summer, or revisited 10 years later when you’ve matured [...]