Exposure

Exposure: Retribution Gospel Choir

Retribution Gospel Choir is a musical project featuring members of legendary Grunge-era minimalists, Low, including Vocalist/Guitarist Alan Sparhawk. Taking a considerably louder direction this time around, the band will be embarking on a short UK tour…

Exposure: Red Light Company

How did you meet each other? It started in 2006 when I posted an ad on the internet looking for musicians. Our bassist Shawn (Day) replied, even though he was based in Wyoming at the time, but he flew over, we moved in to a flat off Baker Street…

Exposure: Arca Felix

Combining math-rock intelligence with equal flashes of heaviness and sharp melody, Glasgow four-piece, Arca Felix are finding their feet with a new sound and bustling enthusiasm. Bruce Rintoul, the band's bass player and resident sound engineer/producer…

Exposure: The Hazey Janes

Like football, it seems like the west coast has always reigned supreme when it comes to Scots making music. Times are changing though. Celtic and Rangers may still dominate over the diddy Edinburgh sides, but with Broken Records and The View packing out…

Exposure: Roses Kings Castles

Roses Kings Castles - brought to you by Adam Ficek. Recognise the name? Adam is also the drummer with a little know band called Babyshambles. Roses Kings Castles is Adam’s solo project that allows him to explore his own musicality and stretch his…

Exposure: Hockey

When the British think hockey, they picture muddied knees, waterlogged pictures and lethal sticks. When the Americans think hockey, they picture the scrape of the ice, missing teeth, and lethal sticks. Now, when the music lover thinks Hockey, they…

Exposure: Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Armed to the teeth with keyboards and electronics of various shapes and sizes, Owen Ashworth - AKA Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - has been spending his time since 1997, creating what he lovingly refers to as 'Sad Bastard music'. In anticipation of…

Exposure: Spokes

Audiences are wrapping their arms around Manchester quintet Spokes as their orchestral approach to indie is likened to artists such as Sigur Ros and Arcade Fire. Liam Morley, guitarist and one of Spokes' three vocalists, talks to The List about their…

Exposure: Das Pop

With a busy festival schedule, which included three sets at Glastonbury, and numerous appearances towards the end of the year it’s easy to forget that we’re still eagerly awaiting Das Pop’s debut album. With a name like that you should be expecting pop…

Exposure: Health

Combining displays of tight instrumentation and technical ability, with unprecendented lashings of noise and experimentation, L.A. quartet Health, are a sound to behold. In their short time together, the band have made a name for themselves in their…

Exposure: Share

Yet more Canadian indie types with intelligence and imagination? Share have their home in Halifax, Novia Scotia though, rather than the saturated Montreal of The Dears, Arcade Fire and A Silver Mt. Zion. Unlike their Quebecois cousins though, Share…

Exposure: Pearl and the Puppets

Friendly, warm and with a voice as elegantly beautiful as herself, Katie Sutherland, aka Pearl from Pearl and the Puppets, is a breath of fresh air. The twenty one year old from Kirkintilloch may be one of many solo female artists right now but the…

Exposure: Esser

He looks like Morrissey and talks like Stewart Lee, but Ben Esser is a real individual when it comes to music. 24 and living London, there's the danger of the young musician being swept up but 2009's tide of 80s synth pop throwbacks, desperately…

Exposure: Ross Clark and The Scarfs Go Missing

Glasgow native Ross Clark has been a familiar name on the Scottish music scene for a couple of years, bringing to it a nice Tennessee whiskey-barreled and brewed twang laced with his own top shelf spirits. Now with a conglomeration of talented folksters…

Exposure: Rob St John

Buried deep within Edinburgh's ever-evolving folk movement (a scene now boasting the likes of eagleowl and Meursault), Rob St. John, complete with his band of like-minded minimalists, has been pleasing many an ear with Last year's Like Alchemy EP and…

Exposure: The Darien Venture

Rising from the ashes of previous bands and having endured various line-up changes, Glasgow/Ayr experimental pop merchants The Darien Venture, with a handful of shows and a wealth of experience under their belt and plans a-plenty, now look ready to set…

Exposure: The Deals

The Deals have had more incarnations than Prince. Instead of symbols, masks and image corrections, their current members have drifted between bands for years, until early in 2008, when the time became right to morph into the current cow-bell rattling…

Exposure: Hey Vampires

Hey Vampires are a three-piece punk/dance/hardcore outfit from Glasgow. Currently ploughing their way through the undercurrent of the Glasgow music scene, they can be seen lending their name and noise to nearly any and every bill possible. In their…

New Bands

Young Fathers Although those in the neighbourhood know that Scottish hip hop has been active for many years now, it’s still the kind of unlikely concept which can make the national media gasp, sit up and scratch their head. Take the good tidings that…

Exposure: The French Quarter

Think of the formula for the perfect Scottish and, and, forgetting the Bay City Rollers ever existed, you'd probably come close to the French Quarter. Mogwai influenced post-rock mourning to soundtrack a sunset on Arthur's Seat? Check. Bleak but…

Exposure: Dan Black

Of all the burgeoning talent waiting to dethrone 2008's vapid chart-botherers, Dan Black is perhaps the most intriguing. He strikes a pose somewhere between Jane's Addiction and Calvin Harris; a charismatic dancefloor-botherer unwilling to sacrifice pop…

Exposure: The French Wives

What encouraged The French Wives into making music? Since the ages of about 15, the majority of us have been in and out of bands but by the time we were all up in Glasgow for university we were keen to start a 'proper' band and work on music we were…

Exposure: The Doledrums

Keeping Scotland's great new music as diverse as possible, to follow the epic orchestra of Broken Records, the shoegaze intensity of Twilight Sad, and shouty passion of Frightened Rabbit comes the sort of gypsy folk of 30s France, taken to the 21st…

Exposure: Jocasta Sleeps

In their short but sweet tenure together, Jocasta Sleeps - Callum Wiseman, John McGinley, and Niall McGarvie - have spend the majority of this time holed up in bedrooms and rehearsal studios, engineering and honing their craft, whilst dedicating all…

Exposure: Occasional Flickers

Scotland has officially adopted Occasional Flickers, and vice versa. It seems that Giorgos Bouras had quite the love affair from afar when he fell for a slew of Scottish tunes while living in his homeland, Greece. Such aural adorations is what brings…