Skibunny Play On Huw Stephens

Skibunny's Aah Ooh gets a Radio 1 spin courtesy Huw Stephens - listen again, Skibunny goodness at about 77 mins in!

ASIWYFA Live At Maida Vale

Check out this brand new video of ASIWYFA performing 'S Is For Salamander' at the world famous Maida Vale. Please leave a comment on the video page and support our boys at Radio One!

Posted via email from Smalltown America Records

Huw Stephens Spins 4 Or 5 Magicians

Check out Thursday night's Huw Stephens Radio 1 show for a dose of 4 Or 5 Magicians toward the end of the first hour.

TRACKLIST
Hurts — Wonderful Life (Arthur Baker Remix) - Major Label Records
Poirier — Low Ceiling - Ninja Tune
Peggy Sue — Yo Mama - Chess Club
SOFT TOY EMERGENCY IN SESSION
Soft Toy Emergency — Circles - Live at Maida Vale
Rogues - Merry Go Round - Friends Vs Records
Pyramid — Medicine - DDD
Rose Elinor Dougall — Fallen Over - Scarlett Records
FROM ME TO HUW
Castrovalva — Triceratops - Brew Records
RADIO 1’S STORY OF THE NOUGHTIES: 2005
My Morning Jacket — Off The Record - Sony
Envy — On The Horizon - StopStart
Frankie & The Heartstrings — Fragile - Rough Trade
Gonzales — Take Me To Broadway Kitty-Yo
4 or 5 Magicians — Change The Record - Smalltown America
SOFT TOY EMERGENCY IN SESSION
Soft Toy Emergency — Headline - Live at Maida Vale
Soft Toy Emergency — Here With You - Live at Maida Vale
The Crookes — Chorus Of Fools - White
Capac - Palindrome - White
Rain Machine — Give Blood - Anti
HUW’S HORSE MEGAMIX!
Sparrow and the Workshop — A Horse’s Grin - Distiller
Pulled Apart By Horses — I Punched A Lion In The Throat - Live in Belfast
Race Horses — Man In My Mind - Fantastic Plastic
Hold Your Horse Is — Christopher Walken - Big Scary Monsters
Party Horse — Lazer Beam - White
Ellie Goulding — Guns And Horses - Live At Maida Vale
Euros Childs — Horse Riding - National Elf
Tall Pony — I’m Your Boyfriend Now - Cherryade

Calories star in Music Sounds Better With Huw

Great name for a great comp. Plus good to see a bunch of blogcasted bands selected for inclusion. As previously reported, Calories open a Huw Stephens curated compilation out now on Wichita Recordings. Check out the MSBWH for band profiles and more.

Here's what your £4.99 gets you

Adventuring - Calories
You Are My Coal Mine - Copy Haho
World War II, Pt. 2 - Wax Fang
Oh! (Plugs Remix) - We Have Band
The Crapsons - Pulled Apart By Horses
Suitcase Man - Hjaltalín
Woe Unto Me to Get High - Sweet Baboo
See If I Float - Cyclones
Sorrysayer - Swanton Bombs
Eighty-Eight - Banjo Or Freakout
Clean Break - Gentle Friendly
Bring it Home - Young Fathers
Pull the House Down - Stricken City
Solid State Messiah (vs. The Valve Viking) - Holy State
Lasers - Gallops
Somewhere Out There a Dog Is On Fire - Tubelord
Opposites Attract - Dinosaur Pile-Up
4 Minute Warning - Portasound
Oyasumi Baby - Colorama
Everybody - Gold Teeth
Like Totally - Gold Panda

There's even a FREE launch event on Tuesday 9th June at the Social, Little Portland Street, London W1 with sets from Stricken City, Copy Haho, Gallops and Gold Panda. Doors 8pm.

Calories Kick Off Inaugural Huw Stephens Comp

News just in... Calories track 'Adventuring' will kick off the first ever Huw Stephens Compilation slated for release in May. They join Tubelord, Pulled Apart By Horses, Wax Fang and Gentle Friendly among many others on the inagural disc.

Stay tuned to the Huw Stephens site for more details when announced.

Be Awkward

Oh, poor little blog, how neglected you are... However, fear no more, because here is some VERY EXCITING NEWS!

Next week, on Wednesday April 23rd to be exact, STA will be taking over Radio 1! Sort of. Both Fighting With Wire and Alan MX have been invited to record live sessions for Huw Stephen's In New Music We Trust show.

This is, obviously Proper Cool.

As I've just posted over at the STA site, we've also got some spare guestlist places. Click on this if you want more details on that.

The best thing to remember is this, though: Radio 1 (like all of the BBC) are able to give labels such as us airtime like this because they're a public service broadcaster. This means that, essentially, they work for you. If they play something you like, you should tell them that you like it and that they should play it again. If they're not playing anything you like and you want them to, you should tell them this as well. As a great example - Let Our Enemies Beware (as seen on Public Service Broadcast 9) recently got a couple of plays from good old Zane Lowe, and all because someone who liked them emailed him and told him to play them.

That, dear readers, is the power of non-corporate public broadcasting. Treasure it, because, as anyone who's been subjected to North American radio will tell you, we're very lucky to have it.