Blog Profile / Song, by Toad
| URL : | http://songbytoad.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Music / Indie Music | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2187 | |
| Posts / Week: | 8.2 | |
| Archived Since: | April 11, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Female Band
Well, I think you’d be entitled to call me a fucking idiot for taking this long to finally post about Female Band. They – well she, really – have been all over Twitter for the last year or so, and recently released a tape called Goodbye New York, Forever with the excellent (and hugely hipster-friendly) [...]
Live in Edinburgh This Week – 20th February 2013
So, after a couple of awesome gigs (Randolph’s Leap and Paws) last week, I started to feel the live music bug again after a surprisingly long period without seeing any gigs but my own BAD FUN ones at Henry’s. Nevertheless, a good run of stuff and the kind of weekend which felt like a little [...]
Toadcast #260 – Woodpecker Wooliams Toad Session
Video – Vimeo – YouTube Photos – Flickr Session tracks - zip download (right click – save as) Interview podcast – mp3 – iTunes – Mixcloud This was recorded at Toad Hall in October 2012 with Woodpecker Wooliams, who releases with our friends Robot Elephant Records. She played at a BAD FUN night on the [...]
Five For Friday – 15th February 2013
Afternoon folks, how the jolly old fuck have you been? I am sitting in the house waiting on the delivery of our next Split 12? – the one with Plastic Animals, Magic Eye, Le Thug and Zed Penguin – and fairly twitching to get my grubby mitts on one for the first time. We actually [...]
Sparrow and the Workshop – Murderopolis
In May Song, by Toad Records will be releasing the third album by the fantastic Sparrow and the Workshop. The album is called Murderopolis, will available on vinyl and CD, and can be pre-ordered from here as of now (although we won’t be posting them out until April). As those of you who have heard [...]
Marcy Playground: Not the Most Obvious of Valentine’s Day Music, But Hear Me Out…
Mrs. Toad and I tend to ignore Valentine’s Day. That’s not to say that we are scrooges when it comes to romance, in fact I would say exactly the opposite, but for us the compulsory nature of it doesn’t feel very romantic. Everyone’s different, but we’d rather take our sentimentality when it naturally wells up [...]
Cuckoo Chaos – Home Recordings, Demos & Rarities
This is an odd little release. Cuckoo Chaos, a band with a handful of low-key EPs and singles, have made a short album of bits and bobs available on their Bandcamp page. This kind of thing doesn’t normally appear until a band is a good few albums into their career, and at a minimum of [...]
Next BAD FUN: Jonnie Common, River of Slime & Shift-Static
Our next BAD FUN features well-established Toad favourite Jonnie Common, with support from FOUND’s beep-master general River of Slime and BAD FUN debutants, the Newcastle (somewhat tangentially) by way of Edinburgh Shift-Static. Tickets can be found here, and of course it would be splendid to see you there, should you be so inclined. Last Saturday’s gig was amazing fun, [...]
David Cronenberg’s Wife – Don’t Wait to Be Hunted to Hide
Well on first listen I wasn’t too sure I was going to like this. There’s nothing wrong with the first couple of tracks, but they are fairly straightforward DIY alt-rockers played at broadly similar pace and with broadly similar arrangements. The third tune is a faux-saccharine sneer, and a bit of a surprise, truth be [...]
Live in Edinburgh This Week – 11th February 2013
Don’t ask me why Ron Burgundy, it’s just because, alright? This really is just one of those days, a real blue Monday, and I have no idea why because the sun has been shining, the label is ticking over nicely, we have a fine Toad Session to publish this week, the gig on Saturday went [...]
Five for Friday: 8th February 2013
Seeing as Mildred has been preventing me posting this any earlier by doing pretty much exactly what she is doing in that picture – i.e. sitting in my lap and DEMANDING attention – I figured I might as well start off with a cute cat picture. This is the internet after all. Anyhow, welcome to [...]
Frightened Rabbit – Today’s Cross
The above video is for b-side Today’s Cross by Frightened Rabbit. I mention this for two reasons: Firstly, I really like the song. This is good news, as I wasn’t that keen on their last album, and they are really nice guys so I genuinely want to like their stuff. Now I am looking forward [...]
New Avital Raz Single on the Way
I don’t know if you remember Avital Raz from the Toad house gig she played last year, and her subsequent appearance at Flamin’ Hott Toadz in Anstruther, but umm.. well, you should. Anyhow, the reason I mention here is that she has a single coming up on Sotones Records, and it’s really rather good. I [...]
Toadcast #259 – The Stiffcast
The Stiffcast is not the cheap innuendo I am sure you assume it to be. No no no, not that sort of stiff, the sort where every joint and muscle in your body aches because you are woefully out of shape and attempting to run around like a teenager. That sort of stiff. Yes, after [...]
Free Download: Song, by Toad Records 2013 Sampler
Yes, it’s that time of year again, the time when we shower you with bounteous goodness from the vaults of Toad, in the form of our annual label sampler. It is free to download from Bandcamp, with the slight proviso that you sign up to our mailing list, from which you can unsubscribe instantly at [...]
Peter
I have to say, I am not that convinced by the band name – lucky the music’s good. There are two songs on their Soundcloud page and for all that doesn’t tell you much about a band, I certainly think these two tunes show great promise. First tune Sleep With Me Baby is a louche, [...]
Lady Lazarus – All of My Love in Half Light
I feel a bit like instead of writing reviews, I am basically just writing up my top albums for 2013 at the moment. The next few reviews, including this one, are basically going to be me gushing about music to the extent that you’ll think I’ve turned into one of those tedious backslapping blogs which [...]
Rick Redbeard – No Selfish Heart
I have been waiting so fucking long for this album that first time I wrote about Rick Redbeard doesn’t even appear on the site anymore, because I lost it when a bunch of posts died in the great WordPress changeover fuckup of 2007. I wrote about his music again that October, and said the following: [...]
Yo La Tengo – Fade
Fade by Yo La Tengo is one of about half a dozen albums released in the first weeks of the new year which are pretty certain to be in my top ten come year’s end (see also: Pictish Trail, Rick Redbeard, Lady Lazarus, Hookworms and Eels). It’s been a fertile six weeks or so. When [...]
Live in Edinburgh This Week – 4th February 2013
Well of course all anyone in Scotland could possibly be talking about this week would be this Saturday’s BAD FUN at Henry’s Cellar Bar (with an actual cocktail menu these days, would you fucking believe it) where we will host the fabulous Black Tambourines, the amazing North American War and the awesome Honeyblood. We recorded [...]