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Boy Scout Recordings would like to get you acquainted with nu pholk popsters The Toy Band. Taking influence from the songwriting of The Beatles, Elvis Costello, and the spiky riffs of the Arctic Monkeys, this Wales quartet create pub sing-alongs with irreverent lyrics and jump up beats. You can snag a copy of their double A side single on iTunes or on limited edition 7″ vinyl at our store.

In July, Sargasso Trio will be performing at Kent’s Bestest Music Festival. They’ve created an essential mixtape of all the artists appearing this year. Get your free download here.

Straight out of the sweet smelling dives of Brooklyn and into your iTunes next week, Turner Cody releases his funky folk Boy Scout Recordings debut, First Light. With a raw mix of blues, lyrical ballads, and stripped down rollin’ and tumblin’ jazz, Turner has created a batch of melodic, subterranean folk. Tales of drunken love, found and lost, ensue! We’re very excited! So excited, in fact, we want to share a few free tracks with you from our shop.

It’s a night of funky indie folk and blues this Wednesday at London’s Bush Hall, as Brooklyn based Boy Scout Recording artist Turner Cody shares the bill with like-minded deviants at the monthly End Of the Road Festival.

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Don’t forget to tell your other music obsessed friends about our free downloads and other great deals at the Boy Scout Recordings shop.

Monday 21st April @ The Slaughtered Lamb

~ Boy Scout Recordings Night ~
SARGASSO TRIO ~ THE TOY BAND ~ BILKIS

A Boy Scout Recordings night featuring a pick of the acts released through Tim ‘Love’ Lee’s Brooklyn-based label, as heard on the ‘Brave, Thrifty & Clean’ compilation given away at last year’s End Of The Road festival. Headlining are Norwich’s Sargasso Trio with their almagamation of Johnny Cash country and Prince-style pop and electro. Support from Cardiff’s The Toy Band and their quirky country-pop and the splintered alt-folk of Leytonstone’s Bilkis.

Doors 8.00pm | £5 advance / £6 door | tickets
The Slaughtered Lamb | 34-35 Great Sutton St | Barbican | EC1V 0DX

Electro-folk Brooklyn boy-girl super duo Mossyrock hit the U.K. next week with their colorful pop tunes and free wheeling live show. To get you ready, this week’s free track is the hypnotic “Room 408.” Make sure to catch them performing all next week:

• 04/16/08 - LONDON ENGLAND - the slaughtered lamb - 34 great sutton st
• 04/17/08 - BATH ENGLAND - ukraine @ moles - 14 george st
• 04/18/08 - NORWICH ENGLAND - take 5 cellar bar - 17 tombland WITH SARGASSO TRIO
• 04/19/08 - YORK ENGLAND - the basement city screen - 13-17 coney st
• 04/20/08 - EDINBURGH SCOTLAND - the forest cafe - 3 bristo place
• 04/21/08 - GLASGOW SCOTLAND - the box - 431 sauchiehall st
• 04/22/08 - ABERDEEN SCOTLAND - the tunnels - carnegies brae

Our favorite freaky folkster Turner Cody heads out on a mini tour of the UK in support of former Moldy Peaches, Adam Green. (In case you haven’t picked up this past year’s indie superstar soundtrack for the film Juno, the Peaches were featured quite heavily. The tracks make us feel very 16. And pregnant. With hooks, people! Hooks!)

We know you’ll like Turner, too. For a taste, we’re giving away the track “Liza” this week. Get your download here.

Here’s when and where you can check these two out and about:

UK, Birmingham
05 April
Academy 2

UK, Leeds
06 April
Faversham

UK, London
08 April
KOKO

UK, Sheffield
09 April
Plug

UK, Glasgow
10 April
Oran Mor (moved from Stereo)

UK, Manchester
11 April
Club Academy

Cologne, Germany
13 April 20080
Live Music Hall

Paris, France
14 April
Trabendo

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Sargasso Trio are also on tour, supporting their new album and headliners Cibelle.

at The Norwich Arts Club
Sunday April 4th

at The Fleece, Bristol
Thurs April 10th.

at Take 5, Norwich (with Mossyrock supporting).
Friday April 18th.