With previous years successes fresh in their minds, Stag & Dagger have upped their game yet again with a selection of forward thinking bookings across the best venues Glasgow has to offer. The full list of acts and venues is as follows:

ABC1
Django Django
The Phantom Band
White Denim

ABC2
Vigo Thieves
The New Picadillys
A Plastic Rose
Passenger
To Kill a King

CCA5
Willy Mason
Washington Irving
Eleanor Friedberger
Will Hansen
Chasing Owls

Stereo
Forest Swords
EMA
Bear In Heaven
Miaoux Miaoux

Chambre 69
Vitamins present: Unknown to the Unknown
Checan
DJ Haus & Makaveli
Capraca
Shaun and Sam Vitamins

The Art School
Niki and the Dove
Still Corners
Jonquil
Post War Years
White Arrows

Nice N Sleazy
Holy Mountain
Milk Music
Bwani Junction
Random Impulse
Adam Stafford

Captains Rest
Discopolis
Hidden Masters
Still Flyin’
The Hearbreaks
Ryan Keen
Holy Esque
Die Hard
Hot Panda
Michael Anguish

The Glasgow leg of Stag & Dagger is on Saturday 19th May in across several venues in Glasgow. Tickets are available from TicketWeb and the ABC box office.

facebook.com/staganddagger

Jim Gellatly presents more breaking music from Scotland including tracks from Dave?, This Silent Forest, Churches, Miaoux Miaoux, Casual Sex, Night Noise Team and Tallia Storm…

Click here to download/subscribe via iTunes

Jim’s links:

www.jimgellatly.com

facebook / twitter

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

jimgellatly.mobapp.at

*photo of Dave? by Daisy Dundee

Tracklist

1. Blasfima Sinna & Conscious Route feat Werd ‘Scene’ web
2. Kariss ‘Kiss’ web
3. Miaoux Miaoux ‘Better For Now’ web
4. Holy Esque ‘Ladybird Love’ web
5. Dave? ‘Take This Chance’ web
6. Churches ‘Lies’ web
7. Tallia Storm ‘I’m Blessed’ web
8. Night Noise Team ‘Picking Up The Pieces’ web
9. Casual Sex ‘National Unity’ web
10. This Silent Forest ‘Milk’ web

Radio Magnetic and Tennent’s Lager are partnering up for T Break 2012. Find out all the news and then listen online and download live recordings, MP3 downloads, interviews and features from the forthcoming T Break Stage bands and artists.

Tennent’s Lager have announced the T Break 2012 lineup. The Radio Magnetic team are pleased to see a strong group of 16 bands who will all perform on the T Break Stage at T in the Park on 6, 7 and 8 July 2012.

Radio Magnetic will be there to record and film each of the live sets, which you can listen to and watch after the festival. We’ve pulled together a list of Soundcloud tracks from each of the acts appearing on the T Break Stage this year. Check them out.

T Break Stage 2012 Bands

Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward and Fisher

Bacchanal Party

Beerjacket

Blank Canvas

Brown Bear & The Bandits

Capitals

Chris Devotion and the Expectations

Crusades

soundcloud.com/crusadesglasgow/pseudo-andro

Davey Horne

Nevada Base

Open Swimmer

Randolph’s Leap

Roman Nose

TeKlo

The Machine Room

The Mirror Trap

Keep you eye on our website, the T Break website and Facebook to find out more about the acts.

tennents.com/tbreak
facebook.com/TennentsTBreak

Following the announcement of the long list of nominees, the candidates for The Scottish Album of the Year are being whittled down to a much more manageable shortlist of ten, with the great Scottish public helping one act onto the list.

The Scottish Album of the Year (SAYA) is a new national prize established to reward and promote the creative diversity of music and art in Scotland. Developed by the Scottish Music Industry Association in partnership with Creative Scotland, the award recognises the most outstanding albums released by Scottish artists in 2011. The SAY Award will place it’s focus on artistic merit rather than sales history, genre or label affiliation, offering £20,000 to the winning album and £1,000 to each of the nine runners-up.

The relationship between music and art is recognised too, with a £20,000 art commission offered to graduates from Scotland’s four principal art schools with the successful candidate going on to create a unique piece for each of the shortlisted finalists.

The list of acts for The Scottish Album of the Year Award is as follows:

• King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
• Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything’s Getting Older
• FOUND – factorycraft
• Mungo’s Hi Fi – Forward Ever
• Twin Atlantic – Free
• Bwani Junction – Fully Cocked
• Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell – Ghosts Outside
• Rustie – Glass Swords
• Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
• We Were Promised Jetpacks – In The Pit Of The Stomach
• Richard Craig – Inward
• Jonny – Jonny
• Conquering Animal Sound – Kammerspiel
• Tommy Smith – Karma
• Chris Stout’s Brazilian Theory – Live In Concert
• Muscles of Joy – Muscles of Joy
• Fudge Fingas – Now About How
• 6th Borough Project – One Night In The Borough
• Remember Remember – The Quickening
• Happy Particles – Under Sleeping Waves

The eleven strong judging panel will trim the list down to ten with the public being given the chance to vote for one act for 24 hours on 14 May using the SAYA app or through the SAYA website. If the public’s choice isn’t on the shortlist the judging panel will reconvene and cut one of their ten acts to make way for the chosen candidate.

sayaward.com

Stuart puts together the first podcast of spring, with funeral tales of ghosts, catastrophe, murder and paranoia. Not really sure why it’s worked out like that.

Anyway, Lanarkshire four piece Thula Borah‘s new EP gets an airing…

Tracklist

1. My Lady of Clouds – Wishing Well – Gelsomina
2. Satellite Dub – Verikskovy Said – ?
3. Scott McWatt – Murder of Crows – ?
4. Miaoux Miaoux – Sweep Clean – Chemikal Underground
5. Thula Borah – Organic Paranoia – Self Released
6. Grand Gestures – No Place Like Home – Chute
7. Funeral Suits – Mary’s Revenge – Model Citizen
8. Magnetic North – Bay of Skaill – Full Time Hobby

isthismusic.com

Jim Gellatly’s latest New Music collection includes tracks from Marvel Heights, Xavia, Davey Horne, Mike Nisbet, Matt Norris & The Moon, Finding Albert and The Son(s).

Click here to download/subscribe via iTunes

Jim’s links:

www.jimgellatly.com

facebook / twitter

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

*photo of Marvel Heights courtesy of elogan-photography

Tracklist

1. Mike Nisbet ‘El Frida’ web
2. Xavia ‘Lust’ web
3. The Son(s) ‘If I Hear You Talk Apostrophes Again…’ web
4. Matt Norris & the Moon ‘Roots Below’ web
5. Fluorescent Hearts ‘Tell Her You Love Her’ web
6. Davey Horne ‘Teaser’ web
7. Finding Albert ‘Smiler’ web
8. Marvel Heights ‘Make No Waves’ web
9. Sonic Hearts Foundation ‘The Storm’ web
10. Marionettes ‘Panda Bears’ web

The Radio Magnetic blog brings you the latest gigs, clubs, competitions and music news from throughout the UK and worldwide.

One of this year’s finest up and coming bands Friends are coming to Glasgow’s King Tuts on Monday 7 May and we’ve got two free tickets to give away.

Friends, who hail from Brooklyn, are a girl fronted 5-piece with a distinctive rhythmic surf punk sound who’ve been making waves in the music scene this year, from BBC 6music to our very own new music show Orbit. In fact, their second single Friend Crush, released in early February might be the catchiest song we’ve heard this year.

Playing Glasgow’s legendary King Tuts seems fitting for a band who are sure to garner even more attention in the coming months. With the recent release of their third single Mind Control and their debut LP Manifest! following at the beginning of June, our advice is to catch them while you can.

To be in with a chance to win two free tickets simply answer the question below. Answers in the comments box.

Competition

What is the title of Friends first single?

Rules & Biz

1. By entering the competition you agree to subscribing to our newsletter.
2. The prize is two tickets to see Friends at King Tut’s on Monday 7 May.
3. Competition will run until 6pm on Monday 30 April. The competition winner will be notified by 6pm Tuesday 1 May.
4. You must tell everyone how much you LOVE Radio Magnetic!
5. By entering this competition you agree to our terms and conditions

The Radio Magnetic blog brings you the latest gigs, clubs, festivals and music news from throughout the UK and worldwide.

The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award is not far away from revealing its longlist of 20 albums that will be eventually whittled down to just one on Tuesday 19 June when the winner of the inaugural Scottish Album of the Year Award will be revealed.

This new national prize, which has been established to reward and promote both diversity and creativity of music and art in Scotland and celebrate the most exceptional albums released by Scottish artists, has been developed by the Scottish Music Industry Association, in partnership with Creative Scotland. The SAY Award will place its focus on artistic merit rather than sales figures, genre or label affiliation, offering £20,000 to the winning album and £1,000 to each of the nine runners-up. The links between art and music will also be celebrated with a £20,000 commission offered to graduates from Scotland’s four principal art schools, one successful graduate producing an original unique artwork for each of the shortlisted finalists.

The choice of which albums deserve to enter the 20 strong longlist will be the job of 100 impartial ‘Nominators’, including our very own Andy McColgan, who have been invited by the SMIA to participate and drawn from genres and sectors across the music industry and the arts.

Each nominator will pick a total of five of their favourite eligible releases from 2011 and rank them in order of preference (1st = 10 pts; 2nd = 8pts etc.) before sending their ‘Top 5′ to the SMIA for collation and scoring.

After all of the Nominators’ submissions have been calculated and verified by an independent auditor, the 20 highest-scoring albums will be announced as The SAY Award Long List.

What’s even better is that courtesy of the SAY Award App and through the SAY website, you can instantly access this Long List and over the course of four weeks from Monday 16 April, you’ll have the chance to listen to all twenty albums.

Every weekday from Monday 16 April one album from the long list will become the Album of the Day: available to stream in its entirety (and free of charge) for 24 hours. Oh and even if you miss an album through the week don’t worry because you’ll be able to stream all five albums that have been played over the week on the Saturday and Sunday.

While you listen away to the top 20 albums the 11 judges will be deciding based solely on musical and artistic merit which of the 20 album long list deserves to go on the 10 album shortlist.

But there is power in your lugs too! As you will have the chance to pick a band to be placed on the shortlist for 24 hours on Monday 14 May. During this time you can vote for your favourite album from the Long List with the album receiving the most public votes securing a place on the Short List. If the Judging Panel’s Short List does not include the public’s choice then they’ll have to relegate one of their choices in order to make way for the public’s favourite.

The judging panel will then be asked to get back round the table one last time for the award ceremony on Tuesday 19 June, when they will choose a winner of the inaugural Scottish Album of the Year Award.

Listen online, stream and download the monthly Wild Combination podcast on Radio Magnetic. Presented by one of Glasgow’s finest DJs, David Barbarossa.

This month on Wild Combination, David is joined for a couple of hours and a couple of dozen beers by local hero (and international interpretive dance sensation) James Pole.

In thrall to the sun, David sails you through the jungle and on to exotic shores. From there, James drags you down a back alley and roughs you up a little, before taking you to the best party you’ve never been to.

It’s entirely possible that you’ll awake in a few hours, still faintly delirious, with an unfamiliar sound ringing in your ears and the faint smell of fresh sweat & stale poppers ringing in your nostrils.

Enjoy your stay.

Tracklist

1. Adriano Celentano – L’Unica Chance
2. David Shrigley – Monkey
3. Ivor Cutler – Jungle Tip (Killer Bee)
4. Bob Chance – Jungle Talk
5. John Tropea – Living In The Jungle
6. Bunny Magic – Supafrica (Dub)
7. Roedelius – Durch Die Wuste (Excerpt)

James Pole Guest Mix

1. IASOS – Siren Shallows
2. Ralph Lundsten – Jungfrugrottan
3. Velvet Universe – Cycle of Days/Watching The Bodies
4. Computer Blossoms – Data
5. Akira Ito - Japanesque
6. Liliental – Wattwurm
7. Roland Bocquet – La Respondeur Automatik
8. Pas De Deux – Cardio Cleptomanie
9. Chris and Cosey – Talk To Me
10. Haroumi Hosono – Platonic
11. Russell Brothers – Party Scene (Instrumental)
12. Meo – Monday’s Coma
13. Daniele Patucci – People Come In
14. Ministry – Primental
15. Ruins – It’s Not Too Grand
16. Stupid Set – Don’t Be So Cold (In The Summer Of Love)
17. Mix Your Own Stars – 119 BPM
18. Mr Fingers – Beyond The Clouds
19. Children – Freedom (Crucial Mix)
20. Victorola – Maritime Tatami
21. IMS – An English
22. Dopplereffekt – Infophysix
23. Do-Po – Rhythm
24. Glamour Cult – Forever Starngers
25. Spike – New Germany
26. Spike – Baby Love
27. Double Fantasy – Children of The Universe
28. Michael Bundt – Future Street

David For One More Tune

1. Bruce Haack (and the Kids) – Nothing To Do

radiomagnetic.com/wildcombination

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Password: