12 Years of DFA : Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic

By Stef Siepel

May 16, 2013

If you follow our Twitter feed, you will have seen this one pass: A short documentary by Red Bull Music Academy of twelve years of DFA. It’s a must see. Not because of its in-depth look into the music industry (it isn’t), nor for great reveals or juicy back stories (it hasn’t). But because – in all its lightness, fun, and short running time – you do get an idea of (and have to marvel at) how such a small operation went on to be so successful doing what they like

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Festival Coverage : Long Division

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 13, 2013

Long Division takes place in Wakefield , and is put on by the Rhubarb Bomb blog. For the 2013 incarnation of the festival (in conjunction with Jonny The Firth and Wolfyboy Records of Leeds) 7 venues in the city will host 70 acts over the course of 07 – 09 June. Those acts already confirmed at time of writing include The Fall, Nine Black Alps, Ghostpoet, Jeffrey Lewis, The History Of Apple Pie, Howard Marks, RM Hubbert and The Spills. With tickets at a mere £20 this is a festival that’s pretty much off the scale in terms of value for money.

Dean Freeman from Rhubarb Bomb was kind enough to answer a few questions that we put to him about the organisation of the weekend’s activities:- … Continue Reading

Eurosonic Noorderslag 2014

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 06, 2013

January 2014 seems at the current time to be rather far in the future but, in the spirit of the the six Ps, applications are now open for performers to apply for slots at the Eurosonic Noorderslag 2014 networking event which takes place 15 to 18 January in Groningen. Previous beneficiaries of the exposure the event affords include Anna Calvi, Crystal Fighters, James Blake, James Vincent McMorrow, White Lies and The XX. … Continue Reading

Festival Coverage : Big Day In

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 02, 2013

Edinburgh’s Electric Circus plays host, this Bank Holiday Sunday (May 5th), to the Big Day In event. The full line-up is handily displayed on the image to the left and you can obtain tickets by clicking here.

John-Paul Mason and Tallah Brash, the dual brains behind the day’s goings on, were good enough to answer a few questions that we put to them:- … Continue Reading

Festival Coverage – Primavera Sound

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 01, 2013

The Primavera Sound festival has been around for over a decade in Barcelona and is now in its second year in Porto.  Offering a consistently high level of acts from around the world it is also an important platform for acts from Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries, proof of which is seen this year with such acts as Blur, Bob Mould, Dinosaur Jr., Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Woods rubbing shoulders with The Suicide Of Western Culture, Los Planetas and Guadalupe Plata and many others.

The Barcelona event runs over May 22 – 26 whilst Porto plays host May 30 – June 01 and we were lucky enough to have a few questions about the organisation of the shows answered by the promoters:-

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Pumpin’ With The Chump, Islington, May 9, 2013

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 01, 2013

At 18:00 on May 09, prior to the WHY? show at the Islington Assembly Hall in London, the band’s leader Yoni Wolf will take 30 fans on a mile-long run followed by a warm-down session in a local park. … Continue Reading

Loop de Loop

By Kenny McMurtrie

April 30, 2013

Following agreement being reached between all members of the classic line-up of Loop the seminal late-Eighties psychedelic quartet are set to play a select number of shows across the globe as well as curate the second of the final two All Tomorrow’s Parties events this coming Winter at Camber Sands. … Continue Reading

Record Store Day 2013 – The Aftermath

By Danielle Gibson

April 30, 2013

Scottish Album Of The Year Award 2013 – Longlist Announced

By Danielle Gibson

April 30, 2013

The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) has just announced the long list of twenty albums in the run for the 2013 Scottish Album of the Year Award. These albums represent a variety of genres and musical styles representing the large amount of musical talent in Scotland. Submissions were received by 100 specially invited nominators from Scotland and the rest of the UK music industry as well as elsewhere in the arts and media. … Continue Reading

Record Store Day 2013 : A Q & A with Demon Records

By Cat Schaupp

April 30, 2013

Here at Muso’s Guide, we got pretty stuck in to the build up for Record Store Day 2013. In between vainly attempting to reduce our list of desired records from this year’s releases down to a reasonable number, we got chattering away to record companies around the country about their involvement with the big day in the attempt to find out what life is like on the other side of the till. … Continue Reading