Mixed Bag? – New Pixies song

I really don’t know whether to welcome a new Pixies song or not. That decision involves weighing the prospect of potentially great new material against the very real fear that anything new will be a pale imitation of past glories. And last week’s announcement that Kim Deal had left the band did nothing to push…

Spike! – The Everlasting Yeah video

Looked into the blog yesterday to be totally taken aback by a spike in traffic relating to an old That Petrol Emotion post. Raymond from that band had found the post and seems to have directed quite a few folk in this direction. But principally he was stopping by to mention the new post Petrols…

The Final SAY/Swamped by 2013

So belated congratulations to R.M. Hubbert on winning the second Scottish Album of the Year award for his 2012 release ‘Thirteen Lost and Found’. After just two awards it’s difficult to draw many conclusions from the winners but, whilst both Aidan and Bill and Hubby owe much of their profiles to indie audiences neither record…

Dream, Dream, Dream – Vladimir E.P.

Not a lot of time this week due to work so hopefully a couple of mini-reviews to tide me over. First up E.P. 2 by Vladimir the launch for which I went to months ago, yet I’ve not managed to squeeze many listens to the actual record since. So a mention at least is well…

I Am The Sun – Breeders reissue

The twentieth anniversary of the Breeders’ ‘Last Splash’ is being marked in some style with a tour by the line-up that recorded the album and the re-issue of a deluxe version of the LP itself as ‘LSXX’. Sadly, an outbreak of work related common sense means that I’m not going to be at tomorrow’s O2…

You’ll Not Want Another Song After This One – Birdhead live

Birdhead / Hagana – ‘Pleasure Centre’ LP Launch – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh – 9th June 2013 So at long last I managed to catch up with Birdhead live again at Sunday night’s launch for their excellent debut LP ‘Pleasure Centre’. It proved to be the perfect place to reacquaint myself with the ‘Heid live experience,…