Sons & Daughters Record Daytrotter Session

Their recent appearance featured:

Iodine
Chains
Dance Me In

Download each & every track here.

Visit S&D on MySpace.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Live On WOXY

Sons & Daughters Record Set For KEXP

Enjoy their recent performance of 'Rama Lama' below. S&D MP3 at bottom of post.


MP3: Sons & Daughters - Live On WOXY

Sons & Daughters Divulge North American Journey

The band's late summer tour plans are as follows:

Aug 31: Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle)
Sep 2: Troubadour (Los Angeles)
Sep 4: Convento San Hipolito (Mexico City)
Sep 6: Double Door (Chicago)
Sep 7: Virgin Festival (Toronto)
Sep 8: Highline Ballroom (New York City)

Visit S&D on MySpace.

Read my review of their recent Bowery gig here.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Live On WOXY

Sons & Daughters Record 3x3 Set For Spinner

The following tunes were filmed at BK's Soundfix:

Darling
Gilt Complex
The Nest

Watch the full playback here.

Visit Sons & Daughters on MySpace.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Live On WOXY

Sons & Daughters Debut New Video

Enjoy the title track to This Gift below. Visit Sons & Daughters on MySpace.


MP3: Sons & Daughters - This Gift [alt link]

Sons & Daughters Blog For Billboard Magazine

Read their SXSW diary at BB's official site.

My review of S&D's Bowery gig can be enjoyed here.

Visit the Glasgow-based act on MySpace.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Start To End [alt link]

The World Of B-Sides & Rarities, #594

Sons & Daughters - Live On WOXY

The Glasgow-based quartet performed:

Gilt Complex
The Nest
Rebel With The Ghost
Iodine
Goodbye Service

Read my review of S&D at Bowery Ballroom here.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Live On WOXY

BBC Interviews Sons & Daughters

Check out their SXSW 2008 Q&A below. Read my review of Saturday's S&D gig here.


MP3: Sons & Daughters - Broken Bones [alt link]

Sons & Daughters @ Bowery: Rebels With The Ghost

It's been roughly a year since I last saw (insanely brilliant) Scottish 4-piece, Sons & Daughters. While the band focused on their 2005 release (The Repulsion Box) during my last encounter, Saturday night's set concentrated primarily on S&D's brand new LP, This Gift. Decked out in a swarm of gold sequins, frontwoman Adele Bethel stormed the stage for a blissful and fervent take on the gig-opening, 'Gilt Complex'. For the next hour, Sons & Daughters continued their aural assault without so much as a 15-second pause. Brightest moments of the captivating evening: a ferocious rendering of 'Rama Lama', an all-out dance-a-thon during 'Chains' & an infectious show-closing 'House In My Head'.

Visit Sons & Daughters at their MySpace page. Complete setlist, photos & an MP3 below.



Setlist: Gilt Complex. Flags. Hunt. The Nest. Red Receiver. Rebel With The Ghost. Iodine. Taste The Last Girl. Darling. Rama Lama. Dance Me In. Goodbye Service. Chains... Johnny Cash. House In My Head.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - The Nest

Sons & Daughters Visit Transmission

Watch the Scottish quartet perform 'Gilt Complex' on the UK-based music show below.


MP3: Sons & Daughters - Gilt Complex [alt link]

Sons & Daughters Announce Full North American Tour

They're back! All dates below.

3.12 Austin, TX Antone’s
3.17 Atlanta, GA The Earl
3.18 Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle
3.19 Washington, DC Rock & Roll Hotel
3.21 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall Of Williamsburg
3.22 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
3.23 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
3.24 Cambridge, MA Middle East (Downstairs)
3.25 Montreal, QC La Sala Rossa
3.26 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
3.28 Chicago, IL Double Door
3.29 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre
3.31 Denver, CO Hi Dive
4.1 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
4.3 Seattle, WA Neumos
4.4 Vancouver, BC Richard’s On Richards
TBD Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
4.7 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall

Visit S&D at their MySpace page.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Start To End [alt link]

Sons & Daughters Announce UK In-Stores, Confirm Coachella

Upcoming Fopp appearances are as follows:

Jan 14th: Glasgow
Jan 15th: London
Jan 16th: Manchester

Details on their semi-nebulous North American spring gigs can be found at the band's official MySpace page here.

S&D's new LP, This Gift, is out at the end of the month.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Blood [alt link]

Sons & Daughters Compare Themselves To Britney

The band shares the following in their NME tour blog: *We will keep you filled in on what it's like to make a video. Not like in that Britney Spears way where she's like: "This is such an amazing experience! I'm so lucky!". We've been badly burned by video making in the past, with our unbelievably bad video for JOHNNY CASH. Just like Britney frequently does, we look like fuds through no fault of our own.* Learn more about their forthcoming release, Wags In Space, here. Enjoy the video for Music Slut favorite, 'Dance Me In', below.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Monsters (via More Than Milk)

Sons & Daughters Premiere First Video From 'The Gift'

Official update direct from the band's MySpace page: *'GILT COMPLEX' is the brand new single, and the first to be lifted from third album THIS GIFT. Gilt Complex is released on 29 October 2007 on 7" vinyl and digital download through Domino Records.* Can't wait!

Check out my review of S&D's gig at Bowery Ballroom this past April here.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Awkward Duet

Sons & Daughters Title New Album + Join Festival Circuit

This just in via Sons & Daughters MySpace page: We've been hard at work in London, putting the finishing touches to our new album titled: *WAGS IN SPACE*.

The Scots sure do love 3-word album titles, Wags In Space follows the band's debut and sophomore efforts named Love The Cup and The Repulsion Box, respectively.

The band will also be embarking on a European festival jaunt beginning in July. Head to the band's MySpace page for more info on those dates.

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Blood

Sons And Daughters & 1990s @ Bowery Ballroom (Matt's Take): Dance Me In!

Scottish four-piece, Sons & Daughters, stormed into Bowery Ballroom last night for a sold out show that was the equivalent of 60 minutes of pure bliss.

Opening with perhaps, their biggest single to date, 'Dance Me In', brought the crowd into an uproar, including yours truly. Thankfully, the band's energy didn't cease for one second during the entire set.

Sons & Daughters' unique blend of dirty guitar-driven 3-minute foot-stomping tracks alongside organic, country-esque ditties is truly an award winning (The Music Slut Honors, of course) combination. Last night's set focused mostly on new tracks as well as a handful of tunes from their first full-length, 2005's The Repulsion Box. Both groups of songs sounded flawless.

Somehow I've let close to three years pass since I last saw S&D; I surely will NOT make that mistake twice. For more on Sons & Daughters, check out their official site, here. Also of note, Bowery Ballroom was all decked out for Tartan week - we're talking balloons, umbrellas, and Scottish flags hanging from the balcony. Quite the transformation, I must say. It looked great.



Setlist: Dance Me In/Hunt/The Nest/This Gift/Red Receiver/Taste The Last Girl/War On Love/Rebel/Choked/Gilt Complex/Johnny Cash//Rama Lama/Girl Group

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Johnny Cash

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Opening the show was Nicole Atkins & The Sea, and following her set, sandwiched in the middle were fellow Scots that make up 1990s (no 'The', FYI).

As the story goes, 1990s consists of a member (John Mckweon) of the (former) Yummy Fur, a band that was also comprised of Alex Kapranos & Paul Thompson of a little band you may have heard of called Franz Ferdinand. That group split a few years back and while Alex & Paul were busy taking you out, 1990s were dusting off their engines. Now, 1990s have arrived.

According to the band, they play music "like a blonde gets out of a car". It's sassy, exciting and groovy. With influences ranging from Bowie to The Fall, there's surely a classic rock feeling to many of their tracks, but I prefer to think of them as the Scottish version of Locksley. For more info on the band, check out their MySpace page!

Scotland Rocks

But we already knew that.

Saturday, March 31st, is the kick-off of Tartan Week here in New York City. A couple of years ago, William Wallace's sword visited from Stirling for the event, this year we might have something even better.

Wednesday, April 4th, is Scottish hipster night at the Bowery Ballroom. Scotland Rocks New York will be hosting a special show featuring not only one of this site's all time favourite bands, Sons and Daughters, but openers 1990s, DJs John Cummings from Mogwai and Bobby Kildea of Belle and Sebastian and, randomly, Nicole Atkins (is she Scottish?). For reasons unbeknownst to us, you can still buy a ticket for the show. For 15 bucks, that's a damn bargain. We have been looking forward to this gig for months.

1990s fans can also catch the group April 6th at Union Pool in Brooklyn. Show is $5, doors at 8 pm with opener Clock Cleaner.

Razorlight Takes Another Crack At It

After an absolutely cursed attempt to tour the US, Razorlight finally have made plans to have another go starting later this month in NYC. I'll be there with bells on as this will be the first chance I've had to see the British stars. Despite what I've heard about their sometimes weak show, I am really psyched to see the boys perform 'Goldentouch' live- that was my JAM in 2005. The new song 'In the morning' is also pretty darn good: Download trat track here.

Tour Dates:
2/26 - Bowery Ballroom -New York, NY [apparently already sold out, wtf?!]
3/1 - Mod Club - Toronto, Canada
3/3 - Martys - Chicago, IL
3/4 - Varsity Theatre - Minneapolis, MN
3/8 - Slims - San Francisco, CA
3/9 - El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
3/10 - Casbah - San Diego, CA
3/12 - Salon 21 - Mexico City, Mexico
3/14 - SXSW NME Showcase - Austin, TX

I would like to make this completely unrelated observation after taking a gander at the Bowery calendar, Sons and Daughters in April is still not sold out. Why people, why? They are one of my favourite live acts of all time. I have been waiting for them to tour again for what seems like forever. Buy a ticket and come dance me in [mp3 courtesy of the lovely Jeff Baum at Central Village].

Wrapped up in books

Note March 5th in your diary for the launch of Idlewild's Roddy Woomble's next mega-project... following on from the heels of Idlewild's collaboration with Glaswegian poet Edwin Morgan on their last record, Roddy's put together a wider ranging record involving collaborations between Scottish poets and bands that will showcase the best of Scotland's high- and pop-cultures (there's even a T.V. tie in! Truly multimediatastic!)

With contributions from musical luminaries such as the Delgados' Alun Woodward and Emma Pollock, Aiden Smith from Arab Strap, TMS faves Sons & Daughters , Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake as well as Fife's own King Creosote, and authors such as Edwin Morgan, St Andrews' AL Kennedy, the incredible Alasdair Gray (who also provides the record cover) and Ian Rankine, this is something that is very special indeed.

Pre-order it from amazon.co.uk

More on the project here!

Sons & Daughters and AL Kennedy - The War on Love Song

Tracklisting:

01. Mike Heron & John Burnside - Song For Irena
02. De Rosa & Michel Faber - Steam Comes Off Our House
03. James Yorkston & Bill Duncan - A Calvinist Narrowly Avoids Pleasure
04. Foxface & Rody Gorman - Dreamcatcher
05. Alun Woodward & Alasdair Gray - A Sentimental Song
06. Aidan Moffat & Ian Rankine - The Sixth Stone
07. Norman Blake & John Burnside - Girl
08. Karine Polwart & Edwin Morgan - The Good Years
09. Sons And Daughters & A L Kennedy - The War On Love Song
10. Alisdair Roberts & Robin Robertson - The Leaving
11. Strike The Colours & Rody Gorman - Message In A Bottle
12. Aereogramme & Hal Duncan - If You Love Me You'd Destroy Me
13. Malcolm Middleton & Alan Bisset - The Rebel On His Own Tonight
14. Trashcan Sinatras & Ali Smith - Half An Apple
15. Vashti Bunyan & Rodge Glass - The Fire
16. King Creosote & Laura Hird - Where And When
17. Emma Pollock & Louise Welsh - Jesus On The Cross
18. Idlewild & Edwin Morgan - The Weight Of Years

In This Home On Ice

Guess who took a big slip (ok, THE biggest slip) this morning walking his Catahoula? Oh yes, that would be me.

Advice of the day: Watch where you are walking! The winds, ice, and leftover snow in NYC today are enough to bring anybody down (not just James Murphy). Luckily, I made it out with just a few aches and bruises, and thankfully I don't have any of the MP3 below.

XO,
Matt Musicslut

MP3: Sons & Daughters - Broken Bones