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Exposure: Esser

3 Mar 2009

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

2 Mar 2009

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

27 Feb 2009

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

26 Feb 2009

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

25 Feb 2009

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: Arca Felix

24 Feb 2009

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: Hey Vampires

23 Feb 2009

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…

Exposure: The Hazey Janes

20 Feb 2009

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…

New Bands

19 Feb 2009

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

19 Feb 2009

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

18 Feb 2009

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

17 Feb 2009

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

16 Feb 2009

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

13 Feb 2009

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

12 Feb 2009

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…

Exposure: Roses Kings Castles

11 Feb 2009

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: Boycotts

10 Feb 2009

Through circumstance, Charles Boycott unwittingly gave birth the term as the result of Irish land reform policies. Nearly 130 years later, his name is lent to something much more thrilling. Josef K, Hardcore Dave and Dragon provide the exciting…

Exposure: School of Seven Bells

9 Feb 2009

School of Seven Bells formed in 2007 after Secret Machines guitarist Ben Curtis met identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Dehaza, then part of On! Air! Library! Now the three-piece make dreamy soundscapes and stunning celestial pop, with ambient…

Exposure: exlovers

6 Feb 2009

Quiet is the new loud. It's an old adage that has once again come to be true, this time via the talents of lovely band exlovers. This London-based troupe make wistful, melody-led guitar pop of the highest order - acoustic guitar hooks and perfect…

Exposure: Ben Butler and Mousepad

5 Feb 2009

The geeks will inherit the earth. So it was prophesied that men wearing big glasses and bright jumpers, and carrying around portable Yamaha keyboards in their backpacks, would come to replace posturing rock stars as the myspace heroes of a new…

Exposure: Duke Special

4 Feb 2009

Duke Special, 28, is a Belfast based maestro with a special talent for making magical haunting music. His third album, I Never Thought This Day Would Come, was released at the end of last year with 2009 shaping up to be another exciting one for the Duke…

Exposure: St Deluxe

3 Feb 2009

Glasgow four-piece St Deluxe channel the fuzzed-up ghosts of Sebadoh, My Bloody Valentine and early Teenage Fanclub, with their eponymous debut album a sweet blend of plaintive melodies and old-school overdriven antics. Guitarist Martin Kirwan talks…

Exposure: Passion Pit

2 Feb 2009

Penning a song for your girlfriend on Valentine's Day – the dictionary definition of a high risk/high reward scenario. Setting the bar impossibly high is Michael Angelakos, a songwriter from Cambridge, Massachusetts who did just this, and now finds…

Exposure: zZz

30 Jan 2009

Let's get the bad out of the way first: zZz are from Holland, they have a name that sounds like sleeping and their music has appeared on a car advert (and surprisingly also a Japanese mayonnaise commercial, although that's neither here nor there).

Exposure: Popolo

29 Jan 2009

Existing under the slightly dubious banner of math-pop, Popolo are a Dundee outfit who make tight, methodical, indie-dance in between studying at various Scottish universities. Having successfully avoided both their coursework for the last year, and…

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