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RECORD STORE DAY Time for music lovers to prove where their loyalties lie
A s beloved music emporia like Monorail, VoxBox, Love Music and Avalanche hatch plans for Record Store Day 2013, Matthew Young of homegrown Edinburgh indie label Song, by Toad is flogging beer for a song. ‘On Record Store Day, we’ll be releasing our Beer vs. Records project. It’s a lighthearted jab at the fact that people will happily spend £12 on a round of beer, but won’t spend it on a record.’
The label will be releasing eight songs on a split 12” (see review, page 76) and eight different songs from the same sessions as download codes with a four-pack of beer made by Scottish micro-brewery Barney’s. The goal is to see which sells out first. ‘I wanted to ask several questions,’ notes Young. ‘Do people really care about physical products
anymore? Can the music industry learn from the locally-sourced, small-batch revival in the food industry? Should independent shops and labels let HMV and Amazon turn themselves into Asda and Tesco and compete with them by refusing to compete?’ Song, by Toad is also teaming up with VoxBox for live music at Edinburgh’s Summerhall on Record Store Day (including Rob St John, Kid Canaveral, eagleowl, Adam Stafford and Honeyblood). ‘What we’re trying to do is to get all parts of the music community together, to break the barriers down and to help make the fan feel a crucial part of the same ecosystem.’ (Nicola Meighan)
Record Store Day takes place on Sat 20 Apr. See beervsrecords.com for info.
HITLIST THE BEST ROCK, POP, JAZZ & FOLK
✽ Collapse Nashville techno producer Container, Glasgow synth/drum machine
fiddlers Silk Cut, and Edinburgh duo and Blackest Ever Black label signees Dalhous (above) play the Glasgow club night. See page 49. Glue Factory, Glasgow, Fri 19 Apr. (Clubs)
✽ Efterklang The Copenhagen trio, with support from Swedish singer Anna Von Hausswolff. Watch their recent video for ‘Ghost’ from album Piramida, about a curse that befalls anyone carrying an ancient amulet . . . The Arches, Glasgow, Sat 20 Apr. (Rock & Pop)
✽ Outskirts Festival This Easterhouse
all-dayer features one-to- one performances (Xana
Marwick), light projections (Florence To), music (A Hawk & a Hacksaw, left, and The Crying Lion) and food (Babu Bombay Street Kitchen). Platform, Glasgow, Sat 20 Apr. (R&P)
✽ Cry Parrot 6th Birthday Tut Vu Vu, Sacred Paws, Ultimate Thrush and Hector Bizerk join this batshit (in a very good way) line- up helping CP blow out their birthday candles. Glue Factory, Glasgow, Fri 26 Apr. (R&P)
✽ Low Exquisite melancholic harmonies from the Mormon slowcore trio from Minnesota.
Classic Grand, Glasgow, Sat 27 Apr. (R&P)
✽ Death Grips See preview, page 75. SWG3, Glasgow, Tue 30 Apr. (R&P)
✽ Tectonics Glasgow See interview, page 74, and Classical
preview, page 94. Various venues, Glasgow, Sat 11 & Sun 12 May. (Rock & Pop/ Classical)
✽ Lana Del Rey The stagefright-suffering, pointy-fingernailed beauty features on the
upcoming soundtrack to The Great Gatsby. Here she brings her croon-glamour for a two- night stint. See preview, page 75. 02 Academy, Glasgow, Wed 15 & Thu 16 May. (R&P)
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