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• Winning Sperm Party / Plaaydoh

  November 3, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Glasgow’s Winning Sperm Party, one of my favourite DIY labels, have released more music by the quirksome trio Plaaydoh, in the form of a new EP titled ‘Friends’ (I previously wrote about their self-titled EP here). I’ve posted the track ‘Cambodia (Grozny)’ which gets all shouty about the murderous dictator Pol Pott. Nice.
  ↓ MP3: Plaaydoh [...]

  
  



• Podcast #3: Hudson Mohawke, SOSB, Sic Alps & more

  October 30, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  ↓ Download MP3 [128kbps, 23.3MB]
  Sic Alps - Massive Place - U.S Ez [Siltbreeze]
  Reverb-drenched alt-rock from San Francisco
  White Denim - Shake Shake Shake - Workout Holiday [Full Time Hobby]
  More indie-alternative with a 60s feel. This one has a great video
  Hudson Mohawke - Star Crackout - Beatsrumental Series #6 - [All City]
  New on All City, sublime [...]

  
  



• Frightened Rabbit to do a live album

  October 9, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Weegie(ish) indie baladeers Frightened Rabbit are about to release a live album– the oddly-titled ‘Liver! Lung! FR!’– which was recorded at the Captain’s Rest in Glasgow this July. The whole thing is pretty much all listenable over at the FatCat Records site, so enjoy feasting your ears on some rather genius arthouse indie.
  Bad news for [...]

  
  



• Ashton Screen Print: New Print Studio in Glasgow

  October 1, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Ben Ashton dropped me a line to spread the word about his new independent screen printing studio based in Glasgow. They’ve done a load of work for the likes of Mono, The Ivy and Nice N Sleazys, which all looks really stylish and organic. Check them out.
  Ashton Screen Print

  
  



• Review: Weenliz - Weenliz EP

  September 29, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Glasgow scuzz-troubadours Weenliz’ music has been described as “glitched up super fuzzy plinky plonks… as if rapeman had gone out and bought some stuff from maplins.” After checking their self-titled debut EP on independent blog/label Winning Sperm Party, I have to completely concur. Weenliz is eight tracks of sheer meat– a sporadic pile-up of raw [...]

  
  



• Pelican @ the Oran Mor, 14 Sep

  September 24, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Glasgow’s Oran Mor venue is bustling tonight, with a mixed breed of metal-hipsters turned out to witness mutli-polar Chicago riffsters Pelican on the UK leg of a European tour. Call it what you like: post-metal, stoner rock, they sure ‘aint easy to classify, and with no vocalist amongst the four-piece it’s a sound that doesn’t [...]

  
  



• 10 years of Diskant

  August 14, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Congratulations are due to the writers at Diskant.net who’ve reached a mighty ten-year-milestone of writing about music online– in internet terms that’s older than Castro!
  Recently they’ve republished some older pieces from their archive, I particularly liked this one about The Beech, a big house in Nottingham that the writers rented for a while and had [...]

  
  



• About Missing the Forest for the Trees

  August 8, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Glasgow heads get on down to the +44 141 gallery at the swg3 warehouse space this weekend for the exhibition of new work by Maria Karantzi, Jamie Kenyon & Dan Scott, titled About Missing the Forest for the Trees, combining installation, sculpture and illustration.
  Link to swg3

  
  



• Links for 29.07.08

  July 29, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  More miscellaneous links rounded up from the web!:
  Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry (the Guardian)
  Stones Throw Podcast 888: Area Codes by Peanut Butter Wolf
  People of Durban, South Africa (Photography @ the Behance network)
  Press Release on Variant’s removal from CSG venues (Mute magazine)
  Glitter And Doom: Tom Waits In Concert (audio stream @ NPR.org)
  Hacked [...]

  
  



• New Music: plaaydoh

  July 25, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 1 Comment
  

  plaaydoh are a Glasgow-based pop troupe showcasing refreshingly child-like music with a ton of tape-hiss and analogue noisiness. I discovered them via cowsarejustfood, who accurately pointed out that the above song- “farmies”- appears to be about working in Farmfoods.
  plaaydoh are performing at the Ivy Bar in Glasgow on Sunday (27 Jul), and you can download [...]

  
  

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