The video for Broken Hands new single 'If You Need To Lie' has emerged - watch it now. Kent based four-some Broken Hands have been grabbing our attention for some time now. Hooking up with Edwyn Collins' AED label, debut single 'Brother' was all blues and bluster, cocky strut and confident songwriting. Since then, the band have honed their sound, racing across the country in their rickety little van to spread the gospel. New single 'If You Need To Lie' drops on May 28th, with Broken Hands releasing the track as a download alongside a limited edition seven inch pressing. ClashMusic ...

The gigantic record fair  Independent Label Market  will take place this Saturday, May 19 at Old Spitalfields Market  in London. Participating labels, many of which will offer exclusive or rare releases, include Domino, Warp, R&S;, XL, Ed Banger, Bella Union, fabric, Soul Jazz, Soundway, Fat Cat, Because, Fire, Double Denim, Full Time Hobby, Lucky Number, Wichita, One Little Indian, Ninja Tune, Lex, Lanark, Sunday Best, Moshi Moshi, Fortuna Pop!, Transgressive, Rocket Girl, Sounds of Sweet Nothing, Something in Construction, Angular, and many more. Exclusive releases will be announced throughout the week at the market's Tumblr . A number of artists ...

The Heartbreaks Funtimes Nusic Sounds [2012]  Fire Note Says: The Heartbreaks have made guitar driven Brit-pop fun again! Album Review: Being able to use the word blokes and guitars in the same sentence is reason enough to cover The Heartbreaks new debut record Funtimes . The album comes straight to us from Morecambe, England and it gives this recently tired genre a shot in the arm as the songs here are sharp, bright, soaring, catchy and totally English. This might sound somewhat drab to some if you have never been into the Brit-pop-rock thing but Funtimes is one of those records ...

Artists set to appear at the Independent Label Market in Spitalfields, London

The big hit had finally come Edwyn's way.  He looked as if he would be financially secure for life on the royalties from A Girl Like You . Keen to build on his success, Edwyn penned another cracking single that was tailor-made for radio.  One that celebrated Northern Soul.  One that was every bit a dance classic as so many from that genre.....and ultimately it went on to enjoy as much chart success as the very best of Northern Soul....in other words it flopped. Released in February 1996, in terms of Edwyn's solo career a #45 hit ...

The Charlatans man will also launch his own cereal, Totes Amazeballs, at the July event

With a song this good....it was only a matter of time. ZOP001 had been the catalogue number for the Expressly Yours EP back in October 1994 with its main track being A Girl Like You .  It had stalled at #42 in the charts. ZOP002 had been the catalogue number for If You Could Love Me back in March 1995 with one of its b-sides being the Victorian Spaceman Mix of A Girl Like You . ZOP003 hit the shops in June 1995.  It was a re-release as the single was proving to be a chart hit all across Europe and ...

Painting a bigger picture: David Band remembered by Teddy Jamieson, Senior Features Writer Scottish artist David Band's bright and painterly work adorned some of the bestselling records of the 1980s, while his design studio gained him access to the hippest fashion circles . Then, suddenly, he moved to the other side of the world and started a new life. Here, a year after his death at the age of 51, family, friends and associates pay tribute to an artist who helped define an era. "I first met David when I was still at school and he was in his first ...

Tomorrow sees the return of Record Store Day and so today we're going to focus on the wish list of records we'll be queuing up for tomorrow morning. With around 300 special releases this year it's a long list so we'll keep the synopsis of each choice short! Running through the list we spotted straight away Andrew Bird is releasing the double a-side 'The Crown Salesman/So Music Wine' on 10" orange vinyl, we like the look of that a lot. Canadians Azari & III release just 300 copies of 'Lost In Time/Indigo' on 12" while ...

Having only lived in Brighton a year, I literally missed last years Record Store Day here by just a handful of days much to my disappointment, especially having moved from a town that didn't even have an indie record store. So not only will this be my first experience of the day in Brighton, it'll also be the first time that I'm able to attend the event. Moving to a town cited the second most musical in the world according to SXSW, means that we're not short of stores to camp outside of on the day ...

The Expressly EP had come tantalisingly close to giving Edwyn Collins that elusive chart smash. Setanta Records sensibly waited till the Xmas 94 nonsense was out of the way before releasing what surely would be a song that the nation would take to its collective bosom:- mp3 : Edwyn Collins - If You Could Love Me (radio edit) As I've said previously, when I announced this as #32 in the 45 45s at 45 series back in 2008, this second single from the Gorgeous George LP really deserved a much wider audience. It’s long been my view that if something ...

Hey, look, I'm alive! Surprised? I am. Record Store Day is coming up this Saturday, so I figured I should make some attempt at doing something here, even though I am Scotland's laziest music blogger. Me and RSD don't really get on that much, in part because I don't buy much vinyl, and in part because I call shops shops, not stores. For a more enthusiastic bit about record shops hop over to our pals at Echoes and Dust . One good thing about Record Store Day is that you can always catch some bands playing for ...

Sonically, at least, we’ve already heard this all before. Wagga Wagga-bred quintet The Ocean Party’s antecedents include Paul Kelly, Edwyn Collins and Village Green Preservation Society -era Kinks, although their head-rushing manner also calls to mind modern contemporaries such as Oh Mercy and The Shins. Their debut The Sun Rolled Off The Hills is an honest-to-goodness release: there are as many promising flashes as frustrating moments, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it breaks no new ground. Opener ‘The Dogs’ mines Oh Mercy’s aesthetic (chugging guitars, quavering vocals, simple but weighty melody) to an almost litigious extent, and while the ...

It was at Gatwick Airport some 14 months ago when catching the connecting flight to Glasgow have arrived overnight from Florida. I was tired and jet-lagged and a bit grumpy. I noticed that a new edition of Q was out on the shelf, and I picked it up to have a look at what they had listed as their '50 Ultimate British Songs'. But before I got to that, I noticed from the index that there was also an in-depth feature on Edwyn Collins , so this was the first thing I turned to. I had a quick glance over it ...

London psychedelia-rock outfit Toy have revealed a hazy new song: ‘When I Went Back’, during a Topman CTRL session which has appeared online. Swimming in watery focus, the session shows the fridge-obscured band performing in Edwyn Collins' West Heath Yard Studio, and the track is a wonderful five minutes of shadowy electric myst, which will form the B side to single, 'Motoring' - released on the 23rd of April. The band can be caught live tonight at London’s XOYO, or later in the week in Nottingham and Bristol. See dates below: (April) 11th London XOYO 13th Nottingham Bodega 14th Bristol ...