Excellent Calexico News

I don’t like to just trot things out like some sort of parrot-powered news service if I can avoid it, but this news is very fine news indeed.
Calexico, who are one of my very favourite bands, have released a teaser mp3 for their new album, which will be called Carried to Dust and will be [...]

Young Republic News

Hmm, there are some interesting bits and pieces of Young Republic news floating about that I thought I might pass on, seeing as they are both a top band and really nice people.
You remember how I mentioned a while back that the move to Nashville had interrupted their flow somewhat and brought about some changes [...]

Song, by Toad Records Launch Party

Yes indeed it is finally that time, and we are about ready to kick off Song, by Toad Records.  Click on the flyer (right) for more details.
Basically we’re going to have a silly great party at the Meridian in Leith (basically head down towards the Foot of the Walk, and it’s on the left in [...]

The Last Shadow Puppets

It’s not often that things make their way straight from the breathless email of a marketing monkey to my inbox to the blog without a lot more time spent letting things sink in. In this case however I’ve been curious for news about this project for some time but always assumed it would be [...]

Blogfresh Radio & Broken Records

I was on Blogfresh Radio this week, talking about Broken Records. I don’t know if I converted everyone there, but I certainly gave it my best shot. The episode is here, for those of you who’d like a listen. I like Blogfresh actually. It’s shorter than my own ramblings and [...]

The Raconteurs Arrive at Pace!

Yikes - new album out next week apparently! Fuck me they’ve moved fast on this one. Apparently they only mastered the thing a couple of weeks ago and just decided to fire the thing out there without the benefit of pre-release marketing and see how it went.
According to the lengthy message they [...]