Today’s news featuring Record Store Day 2011, Fatherson, Mogwai and more

Fatcat will release The Twilight Sad / Frightened Rabbit demos for Record Store Day 2011 on April 16th. The hand assembled cassettes will contain early previously unheard material from both bands and will have numbered inserts screenprinted onto vintage stock paper, and include a digital download coupon for the track for easy transference to your iPod.

Monorail will be participating Record Store Day 2011 to with a special line-up of bands/dj’s on the day. Open from 9am.

For more information on the concept behind Record Store Day and a list of the exclusive releases available have a look at the Record Store Day website.

You can find a list of UK Record Store Day exclusives here.

Fatherson support My Passion at The Arches on April 23rd, tickets are £9.50, LOOK.

Verse Metrics will be releasing the track ‘Horoscopes’ on free download on April 11th, HERE. They play Stereo on April 22nd too.

Fence Records’ Fife based festival Homegame, which is now sold out, has announced that Monoganon, Rozy Plain and The Last Battle have been added to the lineup.

Mogwai are to play ATP’s Portishead curated I’ll Be Your Mirror over in New Jersey. In other festival news Admiral Fallow will play Glastonbury, The Great Escape in Brighton, Cambridge Folk Festival and The Truck Festival in Steventon.

Falkirk’s The Ray Summers play Tut’s on Friday, tickets are £6.

Citizens and Jackie Onassis are play at Bar Bloc on Friday, it’s free so if you’ve nothing to do then this sounds a good place to go.

Tonight’s gigs

Jonnie Common presents DESKJOB (album launch) at The Captain’s Rest

DESKJOB is an album of performances by Meursault, Panda Su, Conquering Animal Sound, eagleowl, Adam Beattie, Iona Marshall, Autistic Angus, The Oates Field, Adam P Gorman and Inspector Tapehead with all tracks being produced by Jonnie Common. The launch will feature 9 of the 10 acts, with each act playing 2 songs in intimate fashion.

For more info, tickets to the launch and album pre-orders, visit www.jonniecommon.com/deskjob.

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