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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.

Young Fathers drop a brand new 8-song mixtape that showcases their brilliant and unique pile-driving, dub-fueled funky take on grimy Hip-Hop.

TweetShare There’s guitar music, and then there’s guitar music.  Glenn Jones’s new album, “The Wanting”, falls into the latter category.  The album is Jones’s fourth solo, though he collaborates with Chris Corsano for the album’s epic seventeen minute sign off, “The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville”. Glenn Jones alternates between a six string guitar, [...]

TweetShare I would be lying if I said that remixes and the like were totally “my kind of thing”, but when I read about a band offering a remixing of The Supremes I couldn’t help but have a listen at least to satisfy my curiosity. What I heard made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up [...]

TweetShare This new track “Drive” by Daft Punk is actually from way back in 1994 when they were sending demos around to various labels. One such label they sent it to was Scottish electronic label Soma Recordings who ended up releasing their debut LP. Recently the label were going through some old stuff they had [...]

TweetShare Before I go any further, let me just state a brief little disclaimer. I happen to be a bit of a fan of Cancel The Astronauts. I may or may not have a limited edition copy of their second EP, “Funny For A Girl”, which may or may not include a personal letter from [...]

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 [...]

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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 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 [...]