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#HogTheStreet Highlights: Madhat McGore Plays...

Dec 7th

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Matt Norris and the Moon Win Hog The Street

In what proved to be a showdown of epic proportions in sub-arctic balticness, Matt Norris and the Moon took the Hog The Street title and are set to open for Primal Scream and the Bombay Bicycle Club at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay. It was a weekend stacked full of sterling performances, from a range of new Scottish acts. Like most band competitions, all acts where great in their own right. But in...

Dec 7th

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Nov 25th

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Oct 25th

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Oct 20th

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Aug 26th

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30 Songs In 30 Days? This Silent Forest Take It On

Starting on Friday 12th August, This Silent Forest are writing and filming a song a day. For 30 days. Nuts. With various collaborators from other established and upcoming bands, as friends of the band & some very special guests, they’ll be recording songs in various locations around Scotland, with the video uploaded each evening by 9pm to the This Silent Forest YouTube Channel. ...

Aug 12th

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Be a Part of Plum’s New Album We’re super excited to be working with Plum on doing some cool stuff to promote her next album. To fund the album distribution and and promotion, Plum’s set up a crowdfunding page on Sponsume, where people (like you!) can contribute as little as £1 to make it happen. She’s also put some great packages together for bigger spenders, so well...

Jul 29th

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May 26th

More free gigs!

Hello and a very good morning to you all. Incase you didn’t know, today is record store day - encouraging the masses to make their way to an actual (independent) record store to buy physical copies of music tracks, with pictures and thank you notes on the sleeves (often my favourite part). To entice you a little more, there’s a wealth of free instore performances. Pop down to...

Apr 16th

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Mar 31st

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The Letters / Pipe Dreams Leith has always been...

Mar 29th

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OMFG! (Oh My! Free Gigs!)

To celebrate the inevitably awesome Wide Days event coming up on 7th April (tickets here), where musicians and industry types across Scotland are coming together for a day of seminars, practical workshops and presentations, there’s a series of FREE gigs to round the occasion off. To nab a ticket, you just need to email the band in question. Full line-up below and contact details below. ...

Mar 23rd

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Aerials Up To Kick Off Leith Festival Good news just in. Glasgow’s folk-rockers have just booked with Gary Tait to play on the opening night of the Leith Music Festival on Friday 10th June. Tickets aren’t even on sale yet, but once they’re out you should like totally get some. The ‘Up have been pretty busy recently, supporting Paolo Nutini at the Royal Albert Hall and...

Mar 18th

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Mar 18th

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Mar 16th

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Mar 15th

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Freedom Fighter / Brave Little Note Get this for a dreamy little electronic number, with some super layered vocals and a rogue violin thrown in for good measure. Feast yer ears. For aficionados, Brave Little Note is Jacqueline Irvine, who’s based in Leith and can be soundstalked on Soundcloud, Facebook and on her very own minimalist website. We like. —- This track was dropped...

Mar 10th

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Mar 3rd

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Delta Mainline / In A World Full Of Madness … EP This dropped into our submissions box, and has been going down a treat ever since. The EP’s full glorious title is In a world full of madness, the simple joy of melody can pull you through, and if that alone isn’t enough to make you rejoice in the world, then actually listening to it will definitely cheer you up. With a...

Mar 2nd

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Feb 27th

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Aeroplane / January 2011 Mix Funk up your Saturday night with a bit of mixed up disco, courtesy of Belgium’s Aeroplane. Time for take off …

Feb 26th

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Sefiros / Post-Orchestral Electronica Some eeps and bleeps for your Friday night, courtesy of Sefiros, aka Bryan Henderson, a Scottish electronic maestro who was recently nominated as Soundcloud’s Soundclouder of the Day. There’s plenty to download if you’re that way inclined, both on Soundcloud, and over on the Sefiros website.

Feb 25th

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Feb 25th

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Feb 23rd

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The Story So Far 2010 was a busy year for Leith Records. ♫ We sourced music and musicians to be featured in Leith.co.uk Agency ads and virals ♫ Managed Hog-The-Stage.com, a national competition to find a band to play the main stage at Hogmanay 2011 in front of thousands and supporting high profile Scottish bands. ♫ Featured over 100 emerging Scottish artists via online and social media ♫ Run...

Feb 23rd

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May 17th

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STORM by Django Django (@thedjangos) Sit back...

Apr 14th

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Apr 6th

From Edinburgh. They’ve sold out Cab...

Apr 2nd

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GIANT by CONQUERING ANIMAL SOUND (via...

Mar 31st

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HUNGER by FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS...

Mar 29th

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Mar 25th

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WAR by the HUNDRED METRE CLUB...

Mar 24th

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Mar 23rd

JESUS H FOXX - I’M HALF THE MAN YOU WERE ...

Mar 17th

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Mar 15th

CARRIE by JOE HAY Having stumbled across this...

Mar 12th

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THE WAY by THE FUSILIERS (@pvtcvincent) Pure...

Mar 10th

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Mar 10th

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Hello Night Crow by Sanso-Xtro (via @sweetworldtv) A bit of a departure from new Scottish talent, but this piece of animation is too good to pass by. Crafted by the talented Mr Fergal Brennan for the ethereal Sanso-Xtro, it’ll send shivers down your timbers.

Mar 10th

CULANN - SWEET RELEASE Cowbells and three songs...

Mar 9th

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TRACK 12 by GALCHEN There’s something...

Mar 8th

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Mar 5th

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SCHNAPPS - CROSSDRESSER Involuntary movement...

Mar 2nd

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SWIZZLESTICK by LIGHTGUIDES It seems that every...

Mar 1st

Slide Away by Six Storeys High Six Storeys...

Feb 25th

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REFUGEE ORCHESTRA by GOODBYE LENIN Featuring...

Feb 24th

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Feb 24th