I’ve been vaguely aware of Sir Salvatore for about a year now, so the release of Continental Breakfast seems a perfect time to introduce them to those readers of Toad yet to come across this particular band.
The EP veers between gently thrumming melodic indie and a mildly more aggressive indie rock. For all [...]
Just a quick reminder to let those of you intending to write something about movie soundtracks for the Great Toad Reader Exploitation Challenge that I am going to start posting those tomorrow. I’m going to post them on a first come-first served basis, starting with Crash tomorrow, then Ian from Edinburgh group Broken Records and [...]
I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a copy of The Cave Singers’ single Thinking of Heaven quite recently, and it’s taken me ages to realise just how good it is. They are from Seattle and appear to be pretty much a folk group, but one who approached the genre from a rock [...]
Epic indie rock. Epic indie rock that is very good. And that, my friends, is about it. I have two songs by A Classic Education which they have kindly sent me to pass on to you lovely people, but apart from some very basic facts I know nothing else about them whatsoever. Here’s what I [...]
I really am digging Cabaret Voltaire’s series of Duty Free gigs (ie, free entry). I think they’re co-sponsored by The List, so fair play to both of them as it really makes me far more likely to take a bit of a chance on something that I might think twice about shelling out a [...]
It’s bluesy, punky, politically raging and Glaswegian - I should love this record, but I don’t. In fact, I am not sure I even like it particularly. I have loved some Sons & Daughters songs in the past, most notably from their debut EP, but I wasn’t keen on The Repulsion Box really, and despite [...]
