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Our free MP3 download today is an edit of a rare track from one of the most important Scottish artists and musicians since the early 1970s, the late John Martyn. Black Man At The Shoulder features as one of the previously unreleased bonus tracks on the 2004 re-issued collectors version of his seminal One World album. Edited here brilliantly by Bill Brewster who runs the estimable DJ History website

You can check out more edits, mixes and other bits and pieces on the Bill Brewster SoundCloud channel.

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Breda Doherty from Radio Magnetic and Dead Sound caught up with RM Hubbert, the much revered Glasgow guitarist on the eve of his second solo album release, Thirteen Lost & Found. They discuss the collaborative writing process the album was built around, why Hubbert felt the recording studio was the most comfortable environment to reconnect with old friends, the personal experiences behind his music and his understandable love for The Minutemen.

Thirteen Lost & Found is available now through Chemikal Underground. Produced by Alex Kapronos and featuring collaborations with Aidan Moffat, Emma Pollock and Luke Sutherland as well as solo compositions from Hubbert Thirteen Lost & Found looks set to be one of the most critically acclaimed and truly unique albums of 2012.

Watch the video for new single, Sunbeam Melts The Hour featuring Marion Kenny & Hanna Tuulikki below.

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Jim Gellatly presents 10 more slices of breaking music from Scotland… including tracks from Tango In The Attic, Happy Particles, Chris Devotion & The Expectations, My Tiny Robots & Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher.

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*photo of Tango In The Attic

Tracklist

1. Uniform ‘Is This Just What It Takes?’ web
2. Alice and the Rampant Trio ‘Take Somebody Home’ web
3. Chris Devotion & The Expectations ‘Tell The Girl’ web
4. Captain and the Kings ‘Can’t Go Back’ web
5. People, Places, Maps ‘Veins’ web
6. Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher ‘How Long’ web
7. My Tiny Robots ‘Zut Alors’ web
8. Tango In The Attic ‘Easy Bones’ web
9. Happy Particles ‘Empty Circle’ web
10. The Machine Room ‘Your Head On The Floor Next Door’ web

*Apology from Jim “In this episode I mention that My Tiny Robots are originally from Fife. They are in fact, and always have been, from Edinburgh. I stupidly, not for the first time I’m sure, confused them with Tiny Little Robots (who are worth checking out as well). I’ve resisted the temptation to go back and edit it!”

In:Demand Uncut presenter Jim Gellatly selects 10 more songs… including the return of some Dundee favourites… the Edinburgh band fresh from opening for Primal Scream… and a healthy dose of tracks from Aberdeen and the North-east.

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Tracklist

1. The Cundeez ‘This Is Britain’ web
2. Matt Norris And The Moon ‘Shadow From The Sun’ web
3. : ( Colonopenbracket ‘Square Eyes’ web
4. Forest Fires ‘Best Intentions’ web
5. Hip Parade ‘Talk To Me’ web
6. RM Hubbert with Aidan Moffat & Alex Kapranos ‘Car Song’ web
7. Blue Sky Archives ‘Cosplay The Hard Way’ web
8. Burning Café ‘Put Me Under’ web
9. The Law ‘Holiday’ web
10. IndianRedLopez ‘Prometheus’ web

Platform in association with Celtic Connections presents two great and eclectic nights of music on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 January. We can’t wait for this.

The first sees the fantastic cult British Indian/indie-pop outift, Cornershop headlinine. Cornershop‘s latest album, Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of  was released to critical acclaim back in March 2011. The LP was six years in the making and is a collaboration with Bubbley Kaur, a previously unrecorded Punjabi singer. Throughout their 20 year career Cornershop have managed to successfully combine their psychedelic sound of guitar and sitar within pop songs that as well as bringing mainstream success didn’t lose any of their cultural significance.

The biggest and most popular example of this heard on their 1997 album, When I Was Born for the 7th Time and the iconic and timeless Brimful of Asha, the unique sound of which lead to praise not only from John Peel but lead them to completing sold-out tours in the UK and supporting the likes of Oasis and Beck in the United States. Watch the video for new tune, United Provinces of India, taken from Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of below.

In keeping with Celtic Connections‘ ethos of using the festival to bring together both local and global artistic talent, supporting Cornershop will be Glasgow’s own indie-pop group, 1990s.

Tickets cost £12.50/£10 and are available from the Platform box-office as well as Monorail, Tickets Scotland and Celtic Connections.

The following night it’s the turn of Laetitia Sadier, Jo Mango and Dan Haywood’s New Hawks to take to the Platform stage.

The amazing Laetitia Sadier is best known as the lead singer of Stereolab. When the band announced an indefinite hiatus in 2009 Laetitia set to work on what would be her first ‘official’ solo album The Trip. The record was well received by critics for it’s intensely emotive look at the sometimes unexpected personal kicks life can bring. Sadier is renowned for her beautiful and sometimes unexpected live performances which you can get a preview of below.

Jo Mango is an alternative folk and acoustic band from Glasgow and also the adopted name of the group’s front-woman and primary songwriter. Mango has collaborated with musicians such as David Byrne, Devandra Banhart, Vashti Bunyan and Teenage Fanclub. During the gig Jo Mango will premiere a brand new work created especially for Celtic Connections, There Was and There was Not… a collection of songs inspired by Angela Carter’s wild and dark, Book of Fairy Tales.

Dan Haywood’s New Hawks are a new literate voice on the British musical landscape. Their epic scope marries transatlantic cosmic roots music with a poetic and soulful British folk. A rambling, rolling band whose crazed stage presence, with various players swapping instruments and psychic powers amongst themselves, has already assured them cult status.

Tickets cost £10/£7.50 and can be purchased from the Platform box-office, Monorail, Tickets Scotland and Celtic Connections.

Both events include bus transport to and from Mono to Platform, costing £4 and leaving promptly at 6.30pm!

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New music guru Jim Gellatly presents more emerging music from Scotland… including musicians formally based in Sweden… a young singer from Edinburgh who shone at the One To Watch final… and an act tipped for big things by a leading blogger.

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Jim Gellatly’s New Music is also carried on Radio Six International, East Renfrewshire’s Pulse 98.4 & World FM (New Zealand)

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The “Jim Gellatly’s New Music” app now available for iPhone & Android: jimgellatly.mobapp.at

photo of Pareto by rjp photography

Tracklist

1. The Little Kicks ‘Do Something New’ web
2. Tom Vevers ‘Sirens’ web
3. Mechanical Smile ‘Close Your Eyes’ web
4. People, Places, Maps ‘Sarah’s Song’ web
5. Capitals ‘Sinking Ships’ web
6. Pareto ‘The Antidote’ web
7. Holy Esque ‘Rose’ web
8. Galleries ‘Young Wounds’ web
9. There Will Be Fireworks ‘Harmonium Song’ web
10. Tall Tales ‘Windows 98′ web

Stuart attempts to get into the Xmas spirit with a roundup of festive releases – How To Swim, Ambulances and The Plimptons – interspersed with some ‘big in 2012’ tips like Young Fathers and Kobra Audio Labs. And Shonen Knife (pictured) open the show with their seasonal single. The trio play a hometown show, in Osaka, on Hogmanay.

Tracklist

1. Shonen Knife – Sweet Christmas – Good Charamel
2. Kobra Audio Labs – Bitter Sute Beats – Dumb Hero
3. The Plimptons – Christmas All Over This Town – www.theplimptons.co.uk
4. Young Fathers – Nothing Left (So Here’s a Beat) – Black Sugar
5. How To Swim – Christmas in a Minor Key – howtoswim.bandcamp.com
6. Wind-Up BIrds – Working Xmas Day -Sturdy
7. Isolated Atoms – Illuminated – Progressive Pure Sounds
8. Ambulances – The True Meaning of Christmas – ambulances.bandcamp.com

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Listen online, stream and download Breda Doherty & Ann-Marie Duffin’s Dead Sound radio show every month on Radio Magnetic

Dead Sound is an indie music blog featuring must hear bands, new music, interviews and regular free MP3 downloads. It’s run by Breda who also regularly blogs for Radio Magnetic. Ann-Marie presents the Needle Hits the Groove podcast on Ireland’s RTE 2XM.

On their second show together, hear tracks from some of the best albums of 2011 including Wye Oak and Real Estate plus discover new music from Pill Wonder and Eux Autres.

Tracklist

1. Wye Oak – Holy Holy
2. Bear Bones – All Things Pass
3. Pill Wonder – Being Bored
4. Real Estate – Out of Tune
5. Lost Lander – Cold Feet
6. Miracle Fortress – Maybe Lately
7. Rollerskate Skinny – Speed to my Side
8. Widowspeak – Puritan
9. Pepper Rabbit – The Ballad of Alessandro Moreschi
10. Silver Jews – People
11. Eux Autres – Other Girls
12. Little Wings – How Come?
13. Beat Happening – Angel Gone
14. Field Music – I Keep Thinking About A New Thing

To coincide with this episode of the show, visit the Dead Sound blog to check out Wye Oak’s cover of The Kinks’ track Strangers mentioned by Ann-Marie and you can download The Ballad of Alessandro Moreschi by Pepper Rabbit for FREE.

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Jim gets in festive mood with 10 tinsel-tinged tunes from Scotland. A couple of covers and a bunch of originals show that the country’s creative juices continue to flow, even at Christmastime. Featured acts include Katie Sutherland, GoGoBot, Withered Hand, The Stagger Rats and Carly Connor.

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Jim Gellatly’s New Music is also carried on Radio Six International, East Renfrewshire’s Pulse 98.4 & World FM (New Zealand)

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The “Jim Gellatly’s New Music” app now available for iPhone & Android: jimgellatly.mobapp.at

Tracklist

1. Eddy & the T-Bolts ‘Santa MacClaus’ web
2. Ambulances ‘The True Meaning Of Christmas’ web
3. GoGoBot ‘The Turkey’s Getting Dry’ web
4. The Stormy Seas ‘The Christmas Before Last’ web
5. The Plimptons ‘Christmas All Over This Town’ web
6. Ed Drewett & Katie Sutherland ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ web
7. How To Swim ‘Stockings’ web
8. Carly Connor ‘Stay All Night’ web
9. Withered Hand ‘Real Snow’ web
10. The Stagger Rats ‘There’s No Lights On the Christmas Tree Mother, They’re Burning Big Louie Tonight’ web

Cass McCombs has just announced details of his next UK tour, which takes place in March 2012. His latest album, Humor Risk is already topping many best album lists of 2012, so the tour is sure to sell out. Check the gig dates below and download album track, The Same Thing.

Cass McCombs – The Same Thing

5 March – Manchester: Band On The Wall – BUY TICKETS
6 March – Glasgow: Stereo – BUY TICKETS
7 March – Liverpool: Leaf – BUY TICKETS
9 March – London: Union Chapel – BUY TICKETS

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