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We Were Promised Jetpacks are newly signed to Fat Cat records, home of huge Scottish
exports Frightened Rabbit and Twilight Sad. With a new album in the pipeline they
are sure to be as big as their label mates. more >>>
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Galchen are one of the most interesting bands to come out of Glasgow. They have been
around for a while now but they are easily recognisable as something quite special.
Songs such as Track 09 feel like being on the most thrilling joyride of your life,
the aural equivalent of hitching a roller coaster built on more >>>
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Remember Remember creator Graeme Ronald is a composer in every sense of the word.
His music rouses emotion from the mere tinkle of an upper octave piano to the delay
of a timid guitar.
The repetitive nature of his music is the beauty of it. Not only does it remind you of the beautiful passages that waft around your ears but it also forges and sculptures more >>>
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Black Sun are one of the most ferocious and intense acts to be playing this years
Hinterland festival. A trio, sometimes quartet -
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I pray that each time I listen to YIFI their music has swarmed into many more peoples
lives like a creeping and tenacious cloud of sonic precipitation. If more people
took the time to listen to this band they would realise that artists like this could
teach them more >>>
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Consisting of three brothers and two drifters, Rogues combine new wave atmospherics
with upbeat dance grooves to create original, ethereal pop music. Formed in the summer
of '08, Rogues' pivotal debut shows have generated a storm of interest and established
an ever-
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Glasgow PodcART have featured Broken Records as part of our Hinterview feature on
the run-
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Again, our wonderful friends over at Glasgow PodcART have done us another Hinterview,
this time, with new Scots rockers The Xcerts. The Xcerts play Hinterland on both
days, April 30th and May 1st 2009. They talk about their new album, In the Cold Wind
We Smile, their live shows and Hinterland Festival. more >>>
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Hard rocking doomster, Guanoman spoke to Glasgow PodcART about Guanoman live, his
inspirations and who he'd like to see at this year's Hinterland Festival. more >>>
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Mitchell Museum formed in 2008. Drawing influence from various North American experimental
indie bands they create an experimental pop sound with strong hints to folk, psych,
and electronica. In this special video Hinterview, the lads talk about upcoming gigs,
recording their latest album, their dream line-
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The last time we saw Brigade hit our pages it was for our Tartan Top 3 feature. However,
now the band are back on the website as they've just confirmed they'll be playing
this year's Hinterland Festival. more >>>
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Edie Sedgwick composes and performs all of the instruments on his/her albums. However,
the live set features collaborations with musicians such as Melissa Quinley (Soccer
team), Chad Molter (Faraquet, Medications), Jason Hutto (Aquarium), Ben Azzara (The
Capitol City Dusters), Amy Farina (The Evens) more >>>
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Ayrshire is gaining quite the reputation for being one of Scotland’s most rocking
towns. With Biffy Clyro putting this small seaside town firmly on the map, friends
of Biffy, Sucioperro, have been flying the flag here for quite a while too. More
recently, members of Sucioperro and Biffy Clyro have teamed-
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The release of London band, Prego’s, Cause & Resolve single last summer saw the band
become widely tipped, rocketing to the attention of Steve Lamacq, and NMEs Radar
Buzz pages. One of the most talked about new bands of last summers O2 Wireless Festival,
Prego also featured in Rocksound magazine's Hot 100 and in their Top5 unsigned bands
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Geordi La Force, man of mystery, is the journey of one man armed with one guitar
and a super computer! Anyone who sees the man and his laptop live will tell you that
GLFs eye-
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Formed at Edinburgh College of Art in spring 2007, Come On Gang! immediately started
writing the sort of music they wanted to hear on a night out: punky guitars, driving
bass, inspired sing-
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Stonehaven is in Scotland -
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Dananananaykroyd formed in January 2006, when Multiplies, the former band of members
James Hamilton and David Roy, disbanded. Calling on friends from the Glasgow music
scene, they formed the original line-
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Scotland is famous for producing many a fine indie-
More recently, The Twilight Sad, have been making a dent, not only in Scotland, but
also all over the UK and Europe. They've tourer with the aforementioned and headlined
numerous solo tours around the country. They are signed to top Brighton-
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Presenter and Radio DJ, Edith Bowman, has had a long-
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Dominik Diamond started out on Channel 4's cult gaming show Gamesmaster, he then
went on to do Sportscall on Radio 5 Live and then went on to make The All New Dominik
Diamond. He has been a DJ on XFM Radio Scotland, where he was nominated as "Music
Personality of the Year 2007" in the prestigious Sony Radio Awards as well as Xtrack
"Scottish Radio Presenter of the Year 2007". more >>>
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Roddy Woomble is the frontman of famous indie Scottish rockers Idlewild. They started
as a noisy indie punk band back in the late 90s in Edinburgh. The NME once described
their music as "the sound of a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs".
more >>>
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We Are The Physics are a self proclaimed "fictional mutant science punk rock" band
from Glasgow. They have a wide range of influences from Buddy Holly to Devo and have
been lucky enough to share stages with an array of bands including actor Jared Leto’s
30 Seconds to Mars! more >>>
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Manda Rin most famously was one third of Glasgow pop punksters Bis whose most famous
achievement (and there are many!) was being the very first unsigned band to perform
on Top of the Pops.
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