The newly refurbished National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh – easily on par with any natural history museum I went to in the United States.

Listen: Patti Smith – Babelogue/Rock N Roll Nigger ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks – Tigers ←♥♥♥
Listen: Tiny Ruins – Priest With Balloons ←♥♥♥♥

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Hot off the press. Get ‘em while they’re hot. They’re selling like hotcakes. HOT.

Listen: The Strokes – Under Cover Of Darkness ←♥♥♥
Listen: James Blake – A Case Of You (Joni Mitchell Cover) ←♥♥
Listen: Lou Reed – Walk On The Wild Side ←♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Don’t even ask. Just turn the volume UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

Listen: Smith Westerns – Weekend ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: The Go! Team – Buy Nothing Day ←♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Chris Brown – Look At Me Now (Feat. Busta Rhymes, Twista & Lil Wayne) (Patchwork Pirates Re-Edit) ←♥♥♥

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Been listening to a lot of radio recently. Obviously where I sourced these two gems from eh.

Bibio – Excuses (Radio Rip) by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥

Listen: The Monkees – She ←♥♥♥♥♥

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Heard this new Four Tet gem on Gilles Peterson hidden right at the end of his show.

Listen ♫: Bob Holroyd – African Drug (Four Tet Remix) ←♥♥♥♥

New single from Wolf Parade is also pretty great. This is the B-side i think.

Listen ♫: Wolf Parade – Agents Of Love ←♥♥♥

Finally, a (possible) taster of what’s to come from Iron & Wine‘s new album – unexpectedly electronic but all the better for it.

Listen ♫: Iron & Wine – Biting Your Tail ←♥♥♥

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3 of the best new pieces of music I’ve heard this week.

Robyn – Indestructible (A-Trak Remix)(Radio Rip) by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Cloud Control – The Rolling Stones ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Perfume Genius – Learning ←♥♥♥♥

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Aeroplane – Without Lies (Breakbot Remix)(Radio Rip) by Scottish Friction

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Went down for a few days there, but I’m back on it and ready to go!

Listen ♫: Young Fathers – Fevers Worse (1066 Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Magnetic Man – Getting Nowhere (Feat. John Legend) ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Magnetic Man – Flying Into Tokyo (Azedia Remix) ←♥♥♥♥

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I’ve been back more than a week from my 3-week drive from Dallas → New York and my jets are still lagging! Had an amazing time and visited some astonishing cities, some less great than others. We drove from Dallas to Hot Springs to Memphis to Nashville to Newport to Roanoke to Washington D.C. to Philadelphia to New York City. When I get my film developed (oh that’s right, I took 3 cameras and about 20 rolls of film!) I’m sure there’ll be a few corkers I can put up on the blog. In the meantime, here’s 3 shots of my travel buds taken on Rob’s digital SLR. Oh, and I was gonna do a post about the new Deerhunter album (which has a few stunners on it) but I’ll leave that for another day. First off then, great new track  from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs which was played by Annie Mac on her Friday show.

Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee (Rob)

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Household Goods (Radio Rip) by Scottish Friction

Next, a gorgeous track that kicks off Sufjan Stevens‘ new album ‘The Age of Adz’ (pronounced ‘odds’ apparently).

Fort Worth Stockyards, Fort Worth, Texas (Eva)

Sufjan Stevens – Futile Devices by Scottish Friction

Finally, a track that was played to us when we went on the Sun Studios tour in Memphis. By the Prisonaires, the track ‘Just Walkin’ In The Rain’ was written by inmates of the Tennessee State Penitentiary and this song was eventually released on Sun Records. The record became so successful that they were allowed day-passes out to tour! Ah the power of music…

City Hall Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York (Chris)

Listen ♫: The Prisonaires – Just Walkin’ In The Rain ←♥♥♥

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So as the curtain falls on another blinder of an Edinburgh Festival, I head out tonight for my final show – Late ‘N’ Live if you must know. Lost my Silent Disco virginity last night and would highly recommend it to anyone. Also bumped into Jimmy Carr and Bo Burnham on the street and got a photo with them… we were more excited about Bo Burnham to be honest! What a talent.

I think I might only do one more post before I leave for a 3-week long road trip across the USA, but I’ll leave you tonight with 3 songs I can’t stop playing. Oh, and Best Coast‘s ‘Crazy For You’ is a contender for album-of-the-year for me.

Listen ♫: Badly Drawn Boy – Thinking Of You ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Best Coast – Goodbye ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup ←♥♥♥♥♥

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p.s. that’s me in the photo