Scotland’s favourite blues rockers Gerry Jablonski band launch their latest offering ‘Life Down The Middle’. If you enjoy some heavy blues guitar with a hint of swing and a gerenous serving of bold harmonica and funky bass then this track is for you. Gerry Jablonski Band are a four piece blues rock band hailing from Aberdeen. Having been gigging on the circuit for a good while they are notoriously known for their energetic, passionate, bold and entertaining sets. The blues is very much alive with Gerry and his band of merry men. The band took to Mark Morrow’s studio in Edinburgh to record th ..read more

Reaction Management is a management company based in Glasgow, with a focus on consultancy, promotion and tour booking. Reaction Management work within the UK and have an ever growing roster of great talent. Their ethos is “music is our life and our bands are our family.” Reaction Mangement took over The Flying Duck in Glasgow for three nights to showcase many of the bands on their roster. I headed along to day 3 at The Flying Duck, catching up with 4 brand new acts I’d never seen live. The showcases were all mixed genre, showcasing the real diversity across their roster. Foreign Wolf View t ..read more

Just when you think an Easter Bank Holiday weekend can’t get any better, The Hives decide to play a gig right at the end of it. Playing the Barrowlands on April 1, Easter Monday, the band savoured the holiday energy given by the crowd- and the crowd equally enjoyed the insane Swedish hyperactivity that The Hives are known for.  Image credit: Katie Reid Opening the night were Essex indie-rockers Bad Nerves. High energy and high impact sum up their set; fans were forged and a mood suitable for a The Hives gig was set. The amount of energy used up moshing to Bad Nerves must’ve been high, as ..read more

If you are a fan of more ‘traditional’ rock and roll with hints of delta blues then this album is one to go buy/download/stream. Edinburgh rockers Black Cat Bone’s ‘Tales Of The Amplified’ is now out in the universe for all to hear. To celebreate the album there are two huge launch parties happening in both Edinburgh and Glasgow in April. “We wanted to maintain the spontaneity of our live shows while exploring the intricacies of the studio – We feel we have achieved the perfect balance. We want our fans and new listners to feel every note, every beat, every emotion, every story that we’ve pour ..read more

“Chemtrails” is out now! And it’s worth checking out. “Forgetting The Future” are a 4-piece indie rock band from Thurso in the Scottish Highlands and are back with fresh new single titled “Chemtrails”, which is their first bit of new music since 2022 and was released on the 28th of February 2024. After a successful 2023 doing gigs around the UK, Forgetting The Future have come in to 2024 with a bang with this high energy single!  “Chemtrails” starts with some catchy drums, which follows into an electrifying guitar riff that establishes the mood for the song and sets a great start. The cho ..read more

Glasgow’s most loved indie/folk ‘busker’ and songwriter Murdo Mitchell is back with his latest single ‘One Glass’. This track takes a slightly different direction to music that preceds it. The skillfull use of diminished chords on the guitar and piano with a shuffle on the drums gives this track a bouncy jazz feel. This all mixed with Murdo Mitchell’s raw and heartfelt Scottish accent makes for interesting listening. Mitchell says; “My strengths are, it’s my rhythm guitar, my acoustic playing, like a kind of troubadour just giving a performance” ; If you have followed any of his other re ..read more

Flagship tune “Salut Salut” is out now – and it’s worth checking out. Glasgow electro-rock outfit Union of Knives make their highly-anticipated return in 2024 with the release of their new album Start From The Endless on March 19. The lead single from the album, “Salut Salut” was released on February 20 and appears to be a mesmerising listen. It begins with a captivating drum solo before the the lead vocalist comes in with some snappy lyrics circled around the hook lyric “Salut Salut”. It gave off a toe tapping effect on my first listen and overall made me want to check out more tunes from the ..read more

The summer anthem we wanted that came in January to beat off those January blues… premature but absolutely a track to prepare us for the festival season this year. Joshua Grant and Katie Nicoll is a collab that maybe we didn’t expect especially for this pop punk track. Their track tidal wave dropped at the end of January and it’s already got a lot of attention and rightfully so, being added to Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer rock playlists. Jack Currie – www.jackcurrie.com Joshua Grant on the track; More than a year ago I had this idea for a chorus on the flight home from Vegas. I re ..read more

Del Water Gap has leaped the barricade in SWG3 Warehouse on Sunday night and is making his way to the far edge of the crowd and back before jumping, along with all 500 people of the sold-out crowd, to his song “Perfume.” Whether or not the audience came to the venue that night knowing the words to this song, they were surrounding him and singing along with him, the energy palpable. This is what S. Holden Jaffe – the Connecticut native who created the solo project Del Water Gap at university in New York City does – he walks on stage with charisma and confidence that motivates his audience to ex ..read more

Red Hearted Vibrations are back with their second EP – and it’s a belter. City Lights (Country Nights) is the latest album release by Red Hearted Vibrations seeing the band embrace their new sound of snappy, catchy rock anthems. The five-piece Glasgow rockers, which comprise of two sets of siblings: Laura (Vocals) & Steven (Drums), Craig (Guitars) & Graham (Bass) and Ewan (Guitars), wanted to alter this style following the departure of their keyboardist Scott and that’s exactly what they’ve done throughout this 11 track EP. The first two singles off the album “City Lights (Country Nigh ..read more