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Hallam Foe, starring Jamie Bell and directed by David Mackenzie, will be in cinemas nationwide from Friday the 31st of August, with the soundtrack released on Domino Monday the 13th of August - which includes King Creosote, Sons And Daughters, Future Pilot AKA, Franz Ferdinand, James Yorkston And The Athletes, Bill Wells Trio, Cinema & Woodbine plus Clinic, Hood and Movietone.

The follow up to Mother and the Addicts' debut album 'Take The Lovers Home Tonight' has now been completed after several months in the making. Produced by Paul Savage at Chem19 studios, 'Science Fiction Illustrated' is scheduled for release later in the year.

Dundee label Pet Piranha have added 2 bands to their roster which already includes Alamos, Mercury Tilt Switch and Uncke Fritz. Le Reno Amps follow up their impressive self-titled debut album with their second offering 'So For Your Thrills...' which is scheduled for release on April 9th. The label have also signed up Die! Die! Die!, a punk rock band from Auckland, New Zealand, and release a UK Special Edition version of their eponymous debut album which features 10 tracks recorded in Chicago by recording legend Steve Albini. www.petpiranha.com

Thomas Truax - madcap inventor, must-see liver performer, and occasional recording artist has announced that his upcoming third full-length album 'Why Dogs Howl At The Moon', which features robot drummer Sister Spinster, will be released on Edinburgh's SL Records. A single, 'Have We Been Left Behind', precedes this. www.thomastruax.com

Calvin Harris, the Dumfries-based producer, will have his releases his second 10" single 'Vegas', with a tour with Faithless in March and his debut album 'I Created Disco' due out in the summer. He has also been approached to write for Kylie Minogue's next release, following, we're told, the Aussie songstress hearing his tunes on myspace.

Glasgow act Trap6 have signed to Hungry Kid records - and will release a single, 'The Cycle', on March 19th
The band's new label were previously repsonsible for the debut from new Universal signings Clocks, as well as Zane Lowe / Steve Lamacq favourites Dustins Bar Mitzvah

The Leg - a band inculding members of Khaya and Saint Jude’s Infirmary - release a 12", entitled '8 songs by the leg(a musical tribute to the forest of dean)'’on 12" clear vinyl. More at www.ihatetheleg.co.uk

80s art-punks (The) Scars, most recently heard sampled on Lemon Jelly’s 'The Shouty Track'’, have finaly managed to persuade Virgin Records to licence the album for re-release on CD. The album, which will also include bonus tracks, can be pre-ordered from http://researchgtr.20m.com/

Also, Virgin records themselves release 2 albums from The Skids. The Saints Are Coming - a Skids Best of album, and Masquerade Masquerade - The Skids Live - will be launched by vocalist Richard Jobson, now better known as a successful film director, at Dunfermline's Glen Pavilion on the 23rd February. Local act The Scottish Enlightenment, apart from playing a couple of Adamson/Jobson-penned covers, will be launching debut single 'Eyes' on the night, and premiering their video, directed by local talent Greg Bell.

Former Jesus and Mary Chain members Jim and William Reid, plus Ben Lurie, have got together to back up William’s sister Linda, vocalist with Sister Vanilla. The band release debut album Little Pop Rock - on Chemikal Underground, on March 19th.
plus, the Mary Chain have announced that they will play the Coachella festival in California in April.

And another pop luminary, former Fire Engine Davy Henderson, releases a single - 'Full Penetration' / 'Midnight BoyCow' - under the name The Sexual Objects. The Creeping Bent 7" single appears on Creeping Bent on February 12th. The label also release a split single of Found and How To Swim on January 29th.

The Primary 5 - Ryan Currie and former Soup Dragon Paul Quinn - release single 'Make Believe' on January 29th and their album Go on March 5th, both on Re-Action Recordings Ltd.

1990s have announced details of their next single - 'See You At The Lights' will be released on March 5, with their Bernard Butler-produced debut album to follow at the start of the summer.
Plus, the band will support Kaiser Chiefs on their upcoming UK tour.

The Revolting Cocks album 'Cocktail Mixxx', features re-mixes of tracks that first appeared on the 'Cocked & Loaded' record. The band were formed in the 80s in the USA by Ministry’s Al Jourgensen who was later joined by exiled former Finitribe member Chris Connelly and the band had a minor hit with a cover of fellow Scot Rod Stewart’s ‘Do You Think I’m Sexy?’ Connelly also has a solo album, “the episodes”, out in January 2007 on a new label, Durtro/Jnana. 
 
21 years after their formation, The Orchids are to finally release their 5th album, Good to be a Stranger, which will appear on March 19th. The band, who appeared during the C86 and Sarah Records boom, recorded the album at Glasgow’s Riverside Studios. Like Camera Obscura, a band regarded by some as their natural successors, they are to release hte album on a Spanish label - Madrid-based Siesta.

Future Pilot AKA release 4th album 'Secrets From The Clockhouse' on Creeping Bent in January. The 16 tracks include collaborations and appearances from members of The Go Betweens, Sonic Youth, Belle & Sebastian, Can, Stooges, Fire Engines, Concerto Caledonia, Karine Polwart and Alisdair Gray

Biffy Clyro release a christmas single - well, the download-only ‘Semi-Mental’ will hit (digital) shops on 25 December 2006

The View are set to release their new single 'Same Jeans' on January 15.

Aereogramme have returned to their first (ok, second) home, Chemikal Underground, and are to release their third album on January 30th - entitled “My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go.

Mogwai’s Rock Action label is to launch a singles club - as they say, in the tradition of the likes of Subpop. The first release will be a 7” by Glasgow-based veteran hardcore supergroup Desalvo.

Scots-born folk legend Bert Jansch has spoken to US mag Billboard, about his 23rd album The Black Swa , a 12-tracker which has taken 3 years to complete and which includes a collaboration with Beth Orton. "Since it's my album, I did most of the writing... she did introduce me to the song 'Katie Cruel' though. I really think that one gels well." Jansch also collaborates with Devendra Banhart, who he met at All Tomorrow's Parties, and Philidelphia group Espers.

Following her near-miss at this year's Mercury Awards, Isobel Campbell is set to release a solo (i.e. without Mark Lanegan) album. 'Milkwhite Sheets' is out on October 23. It's the follow-up to the Mercury short-listed 'Ballad Of The Broken Seas', which she recorded with Lanegan.
The new album is largely solo and acoustic - and indeed, 'Loving Hannah' is a cappella.

Former Josef K and Orange Juice guitarist Malcolm Ross is to release a compilation of his solo material on Re-Action Recordings in October.
'Wrong Place, Wrong Time' features sixteen tracks from his two solo releases on German label Marina, plus four previously unreleased cuts and a version of Gene Clark's 'Tried So Hard', several tracks were produced by Edwyn Collins and there are guest appearances from other former Orange Juicers members, David McLymont & Steven Daly, The Go-Betweens’ Robert Vickers, and Paul Haig and David Weddell of Josef K.

Speaking of which, Domino Records - home to Franz Ferdinand (you make the connection) are to release Entomology, which collects a number of Josef K Postcard singles, B-sides, Peel Sessions (including their version of Alice Cooper’s ‘AppleBush’) and various album tracks including six from the ‘lost’ debut Sorry For Laughing.

Mogwai are to contribute 2 tracks to the forthcoming Miami Vice film soundtrack (out 7th August). 'We’re No Here' and 'Auto Rock' - both from the recently released monster 5th album Mr Beast appear alongside the likes of Goldfrapp and Nina Simone.

Dawn of the Replicants celebrate 10 years in showbiz, with the release of a singles CD on 18th September entitled Bust The Trunk, on SL Records. The 22 track album comes with a DVD featuring videos, interviews and live footage from the past decade.

James Yorkston releases an album, The Year of The Leopard, on Domino Records on September 25th. THe 10 tracks are produced by Paul Webb & Phil Brown, who worked on Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden, and Beth Gibbons (Portishead)'s album Out Of Season. The band formerly known as The Athletes aagain provide backing, and HMS Ginafore crops up on guest vocals.

Belle & Sebastian's forthcoming single 'White Collar Boy' - out on Rough Trade on June 26th - features a version of Rod Stewart's 1983 #1 hit 'Baby Jane' on the B-side. The track apears only on the 7" - the CD single features new tracks 'Long Black Scarf' and 'Heaven In The Afternoon', while the DVD has the 'White Collar Boy' video and a live performance of 'Sukie In The Graveyard'.

More Mary Chain news (see below) - Jim Reid, former Mary Chain mainman, returns as Freeheat along with fellow JAMC man Ben Lurie to release a single, 'Down', which trails an album Back onThe Water to appear later in the summer on Planting Seeds Records. Also in the band are Romi Mori (formerly of the Gun Club) and drummer Nick Sanderson, from Earl Brutus, making the lineup something of an indie supergroup.

Rhino Records are to re-release five classic albums from The Jesus And Mary Chain on July 11.
1985's ' Psychocandy', 1987's 'Darklands', 1989's 'Automatic', 1992's 'Honey's Dead' and 1994's 'Stoned & Dethroned', will all come with a 3-song DVD featuring the promo videos from that album.

Mogwai will release the “Travel Is Dangerous” EP (12” and CD on PIAS, 26th June). Also on the single - reworkings of 2 tracks from album Mr Beast, an Acid Casuals mix of ‘Friend of The Night’ and Error’s version of ‘Auto Rock’. Two tracks recorded live in Tokyoround off the EP - ‘Like Herod” and new end of set favourite ‘We’re No Here’.
The band’s soundtrack to Douglas Gordon’s film Zidane can soon be heard, at least in cinemas in France, from 17th - 19th May. Trailers are viewable at: http://www.uipfrance.com/sites/zidane/ba.html and http://zidanelefilm.cine.wanadoo.fr/

Mouse Eat Mouse will finally release their long-awaited debut album 'Mair Licht!' on Hackpen Records, in July. More at www.mouse-eat-mouse.co.uk / www.myspace.com/mousehq

Sucioperro’s debut album 'Random Acts Of Intimacy' is released early summer 2006 by Captains Of Industry. The band, from the same town as Biffy Cyro, are also known as being one part of Marmaduke Duke
Debut single 'Dialog On The 2' is released Monday 15th May 2006. http://www.captainsof.com/

Following being dropped by Alan McGee's Poptones label, The Cosmic Rough Riders have signed to Korova Records. The label, original home to Echo and the Bunnymen and now part of the Warner Bros empire, has offered the band a 5-album deal after boss Nick Stewart heard their self-financed new album recordings.

Snow Patrol have revealed details of their new album 'Eyes Open' which is out May 1

It will be released in two formats: a standard CD with two bonus tracks, plus a special edition with a DVD of extras.

Tracklisting:
'You're All I Have'
'Hands Open'
'Chasing Cars'
'Shut Your Eyes'
'Beginning To Get To Me'
'You Could Be Happy'
'Make This Go On Forever'
'Set The Fire To The Third Bar'
'Headlights On Dark Roads'
'Open Your Eyes'
'The Finish Line'

'You're All I Have' will be released as a single on April 24.

Cocteau Twins, the legendary Grangemouth shoegazers, release 2 albums, entitled Lullabies To Violaine, in mid-March.
The 2-volume set compiles singles and EPs released by the band between 1882 and 1996
Volume One covers the band’s classic 4AD era from 1982–1986 while Volume Two spans their Mercury/Capitol years (1993–1996).

Franz Ferdinand's new single, relesed on March 27th, is a double-A side, 'The Fallen' / 'L Wells' to be released on 2 x 7"s and CD.
'The Fallen' is from their current album but the new song - which is, like 'Michael', about a friend from Glasgow - was recorded in Melbourne while the band were performing at the Big Day Out festival.
The single also features a mix 'ruined' by French duo Justice plus a further two brand new tracks: 'Jeremy Fraser', which is sung by Nick McCarthy, and 'Brown Onions', an instrumental recorded in New York.

The Delgados have acquired the rights to the seven sessions that they recoprded for John Peel over the past 10 years, and are set to compile them into what they describe as "a 28-track monster". More details will follow at http://myspace.com/chemikalunderground, or of course at www.chemikal.co.uk, which also features a free download of Emma Pollock's demo version of 'I Fought The Angels'.

In other Chemikal-related news, the Radar Brothers release their second album for the label - a 13 tracker, The Fallen Leaf Pages is out on February 27th.

And, former CU artiste, and ex-Vaseline, Frances McKee, releases her first solo album. Sunny Moon is released on Analogue Catalogue on April 10th.

Saint Jude's Infirmary's debut album for Sl Records is slated for release on January 30th - it'll contain 9 teracks and be entitled Happy Healthy Lucky Month.

Also on SL, on 13th February, is Dawn of the Replicants' 5th album - though Fangs is their first for the label.

Mogwai release their album Mr Beast on 6th March, preceded by a single 'Friend of the Night' on January 30th.

Tells - formed from the ashes of Delicate AWOL - release album Hope Your Wounds Heal on Feb 14th, on Fire Records.

Boards of Canada release a new album on October 17th - 'The Campfire Headphase' will be released on Warp.

Eugene Kelly has a new album coming out on September 26th - ’Man Alive’ is through Rev-Ola.

The Beta Band are set to release a career retrospective compilation. ’Music: The Best Of The Beta Band’ will also feature tracks from one of their final shows in London.

Belle and Sebastian are set to release a compilation of all their Jeepster singles/EP tracks - 'Push Barman To Open Old Wounds' will come out on May 23rd.

Sons and Daughters have announced that their debut album (if Love the Cup was a maxi-EP) The Repulsion Box has 10 tracks icluding the single Dance Me In and comes out on Domino on the 6th June.

Macrocosmica's self-released 3rd album Farewell to Earth is out on May 23rd.

Malcolm Middleton releases his second solo album 'Into The Woods' on June 13th. It features collaborations with Delgado Paul Savage, Stuart Braithwaite and Barry Burns out of Mogwai, and his old mucker in Arab Strap, Aidan Moffat. There's a download of 'A Happy Medium' available here.

And Hookers Green #1 release the elaborately-titled On How the Illustrious Captain Moon Won The War For US, on May 16th

Hobotalk relese their second album Notes on Sunset on April 25th, on Circular records.

Salon Boris release a single 'Bride of Boris on May 2nd.

Sons and Daughters' new single will be out on 23rd May - 'Dance Me In' is taken from their forthcoming Edwyn Collins-produced album.

Dead Fly Buchowski's second single 'Russian Doll' comes out on April 11th on Beggars Banquet.

Former Appendix Out man Alisdair Roberts puts out an album of Scottish murder ballads- kind of - on Drag City on March 21st. No Earthly Man, produced by Will Oldham, is a sreies of 8 traditional 'death ballads' and was well as Oldham's appearance on the album, also featurees Isobel Campbell and International Airport's Tom Crossley.

Desc release their new album on Bowl of Frogs Records, now. 'jack in the box' is 10 songs from former Khaya mainman Dan Mutch plus Alun and Pete, all produced - sorry, 'engineered' - by Steve Albini.

Unkle Bob release their debut single, kind of - Hit Parade is out on March 21st and includes a remix by Creeping Bent artist Colditz.

Further away, King Creosote puts put a new album on Fence Records - Rocket DIY is out on April 4th.

Jupiter and Teardrop - featuring Geoff Martyn, (in)famously an founder member of the band that became Travis - release their debut single "Bring Me Down' on the Buchannan Drive label.

The Jackals' single 'Raspberry Moon' is out as of January 31st - see their site www.jackalsmusic.com for more details.
Biffy Clyro take a single from their Infinity Land album - 'Only One Word Comes To Mind' is out on February 14th.
Also out on the 14th - Aberfeldy's single 'Love s An Arrow'
Lucky Luke release 'Where Did You Go My Love on - yes - February 14th with the album Patrick The Survivor due in April
Idlewild's single 'Love Steals us From Loneliness' is out on Feb 21st, and is taken from the album Warnings/Promises, out March 7th

Camera Obscura release a single on Elefant late in February - 'I Love My Jean' comes on 7" backed by 'Marathon Not a Sprint' while the CD will also feature a version of 'A Red Red Rose', originally recorded for a John Peel Burns special.
Desc have a Steve Albini-'produced' 9-track album out on their own Bowl Of Frogs label
The Delgados take 'Girls Of valour' from their Universal Audio album, on Feb 28th. It also contains 2 covers taken from Peel sessions - a version of 50s blues act The Beltones' 'Last Rose of Summer', and the Ewan McColl tune 'Ballad of Accounting'

Fence Records have launched a quarterly fanzine. Entitled, yes, 'The Fencezine', it will feature articles and artwork from the artists on the label such as King Creosote, Lone Pigeon, Gummi Bako, H.M.S. Ginafore, MC Quake, The Pictish Trail & James Yorkston. And, with every copy, a free cd. More at www.fencerecords.com

Dawn of the Replicants release a mini-album on 7th March - Bun Magic contains new versions of 'Won't Hurt A Fly' and 'Hollywoood Hills', plus a cover of Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy. The release ties in with their appearance at South By South-West in Texas.

Dead Fly Buchowski's debut single 'Blackout' comes out on January 17th on Beggars Banquet

Aereogramme have left Chemikal Underground and signed to Yorkshire label Undegroove and have an all-new 5-track EP 'Seclusion' planned for September. The release will include a Flaming Lips cover as well as a film soundtrack element. Bassist Campbell McNeil said "We're excited to be working with Undergroove - a label that champions creative freedom, intelligent rock and beards sillier than ours."

International Airport and Teenage Fanclub release a split single, 'Association', on Domino, August 23rd - and the Airport's album 'Reunion of Island Goose' is also out
and Franz Ferdinand's single 'Michael is out the same day, same label (see news ). And G-Plan's debut album is out on Play Records.

Mercury Tilt Switch have a 7" single 'Get Ready For The Trench Run' - it's a split with the A Forest
Hoboken's album Crazy Glue is officially launched today
and Glowing Underground - a 6-track v/a compilation EP on Fierce Panda, hits the shops. The bands featured are: Dogs Die on Hot Cars, Multiplies, This Familiar Smile, X-Tigers, Amateur Guitar Anti-Heroes and Odeon Beat Club
Future Pilot AKA single, Love Music, Hate Racism (Geographic)
The Primary 5 - NOrth Pole (Belbeat) - album from Paul Quinn, ex Soup Dragons & Teenage Fanclub

Biffy Clyro: 'Glitter and Trauma' (Beggars)
De Rosa: 'Camera'/'All Saints Day' - on Gargleblast
Cayto's 7" single 'Morning' out on their own Rictus Records

Biffy Clyro - 'There's No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake'/ 'Hero Management' download-only single, available at the Beggars website

International Pop Assassins: 'Spring' EP feat. 'Viagra Niagra' - more at Seminal Records website

We Become Less - A Single Truth EP - see WBL's website

Dawn of the Replicants - The Extra Room ()
Violet Indiana - Russian Doll album (Bella Union)
Eleven Mile Creek - Training for Industry ()
The Nectarine No.9 - ilovetotaldestruction (Creeping Bent)
Multiplies/The Kitchen split EP (Mr Biji)

The Sluts of Trust - Leave You Wanting More single (Chemikal Underground)
Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Godhopping single
The Beta Band album - Heroes to Zeroes (Regal)
Franz Ferdinand - Matinee single
Ally Kerr - Calling Out to You - full-length album available in Japan (!) or direct from his website
Eleven Mile Creek EP 'Training for Industry' (website)
Stigma / deadenstereo split single - Nothing Left / A Perfect Second

Kasino's EP 'Thank You and Good Night', downloadable from the Kasino website
Baskin / Hex - split CD EP (Chunky Chicken records)
Tacoma Radar - No-one Waved Goodbye (Andmoresound)
Brady Cole - Illness of Hype - 7-track EP, available from their website
Sluts of Trust - We Are All... debut album

Viva Stereo - Surface Has Been Scratched EP (Much Better)

Squander Pilots - Things Happen to Us (Neptune)

We Rock Like Girsl Don't - Rock'n'Roll Freak (Distort)

The Needles - Under The City (Dangerous)
4-trck EP from north-east punksters

Ordinary Son - Numbers (Traveled)
Limited 5-track CD from Borders electronic duo

Catcher - Different City (West Nile)
new EP from long-established new-wavers

Dead Fly Buchowski - The Land of The Rough (Sandbath)
debut album from Glasgow blues terrorists

Half Cousin - Country Cassette (Gronland)
2nd single from highly-regarded Orkney lo-fi duo

The Uncle Devil Show - A Terrible Beauty (P3)
album from Justin Currie and pals disguised in comedy wigs and 'taches

Terra Diablo - Swings and Roundabouts (Zuma)
7" single with the A-side available for free download at terradiablo.com

Various - Fence Reunited (Fence)
Soundtrack album to the Fence Reunited weekend with Lone Pigeon, James Yorkston and the entire Anstruther populus in collaboration

29th
The Needles - Under The City (Dangerous)
OrdinarySon - Numbers (Traveled)
Catcher - Different City (West Nile)
Dead Fly Buchowski - The Land of The Rough (Sandbath)
Half Cousin - Country Cassette (Gronland)
The Uncle Devil Show - A Terrible Beauty
Terra Diablo - Swings and Roundabouts (Zuma)
Various - Fence Reunited (Fence)

April
5th
Viva Stereo - Surface Has Been Scratched EP
12th
Beta Band - Assessment single
We Rock Like Girls Don't - You Fuc Rockin Freak

19th
Spare Snare - Learn To Play (Chute)
Sluts of Trust - We Are All Sluts of Trust (Chemikal Underground)

26th
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Godhopping

May
El Presidente - Without You
Beta Band - Heros to Zeros album