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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 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 [...]

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TweetShare Now, let me preface this with an admission that I haven’t listened to a single song by The Wake, which I’m guessing will be tantamount to sacrilege, being that I’m Scottish and all, and The Wake are all Scottish and shit too. But, just because I’m from Scotland doesn’t mean I should be expected to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

TweetShare Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mogwai has definitively won the crown for best album title of 2011 with the forthcoming “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will,” due on Sub Pop on February 15, 2011.  The album title alludes to a more aggressive Mogwai (one that was sorely missed on 2008′s [...]

TweetShare Some people fell head over hells in love with this Glaswegian quadruplet when they first started doing the rounds back in 2007/2008, and then there were some people who hated them. I was half and half.  Maybe it’s because I’m Scottish and I don’t hear it enough, but I tend to be drawn towards [...]

TweetSharePhotography by Neale Smith I’m always partial to music that’s from my native land but that doesn’t mean that if you’re lucky enough to be from there that you get extra special treatment, it’ll only go up if it’s good, and this IS! Hailing from the Scottish Highlands but based in Glasgow, this quartet of [...]

TweetShare I’m not sure where it started but I’ve noticed a strange trend with Scottish acts making music with spoken “vocals” over the music.  I’ve spoken about it on here a few times, likening them to Arab Strap since that’s where I first heard it. An entire album of it would probably become quite trite [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]

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 Croy based, Post-Rock Pop outfit Campfires in Winter celebrate the release of their debut EP “Cardboard Ships” on ‘stand & wave’ with a mini ‘flat’ tour. The band are embarking on a series of intimate acoustic gigs, playing for fans in their very own living rooms! This is a new concept in band promotion, [...]