We’re starting a new series of intimate all-day Lost Map events, entitled STRANGE INVITATION, in 2017 … with the first taking place on Sunday January 29th at The Strongroom Bar in Shoreditch, London, as part of Independent Venue Week. 

There’ll be live music, from 1pm til 10pm, with a secret brew of live acts and DJs from the Lost Map roster.  Early Bird tickets available, for just £10, from here.

You really should you know, it'll be fun. She's not been doing many gigs of late has Rozi, which if you know anything of Rozi's typically never-ending-touring ways then you'll know is quite unusual. Well, apart from that time when she went to Berlin and jammed with Bon Iver and guys from The National and stuff, but y'know, we don't want to seem like we're bragging (we are bragging).  Anyway, she's got a bunch more shows coming up soon, starting with a headline date on Friday, December 9 at Omeara in London, which is a brand new venue in a railway arch at London Bridge which everyone keeps telling us about so we're telling you about it too because we like to share like that.

HULLO.  Pictish Trail, here.  The stars have aligned, the planets are in orbit, and your anus is in retrograde.

As you may already know, i'm releasing my new album - Future Echoes - next month, and to celebrate i'm holding an all-day cosmic party at Leith Theatre, in Leith, Edinburgh, on Saturday October 1st. 

I'll be doing a full-on live set with my band, replete with jet-packs and space-boots, playing all the new songs and some golden oldies.  But I'm not playing all day.  Oh no.  I've got some very special guests joining us for the party.   In fact, I can announce the first space-wave of acts who are playing, right now ...

It gives Lost Map great pleasure to introduce Manuela, the London-based project comprising vocalist and songwriter Manuela Gernedel and multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick McCarthy (Franz Ferdinand, FFS), with the release of their debut single ‘Cracks in the Concrete’, which premiered yesterday via Stereogum and is available to stream and share now. Out now as a PostMap postcard single and download, available exclusively from lostmap.com, and accompanied by a thumping disco remix B-side by London DJ Nadia Ksaiba, it’s a joyous introduction to their addictive, eclectic, off-the-wall and instantly refreshing DIY pop sound, and a perfect taster of their forthcoming debut album.

Kid Canaveral have revealed another new track from their forthcoming third album Faulty Inner Dialogue, which will be released by Lost Map Records on July 29, 2016 on vinyl, CD and as a digital download. ‘Tragic Satellite’ is the second song to be aired from the much anticipated follow-up to their Scottish Album of the Year longlisted second album 2013’s Now That You Are A Dancer, after the video for ‘First We Take Dumbarton’ was premiered by The Skinny in May and hailed as Single of the Month by Clash magazine and “a ready-made radio hit” by The List. Kid Canaveral will launch the new album with a show at Summerhall, Edinburgh on Saturday, July 30, with support from Malcolm Middleton.

Something of a sonic hermit, Pictish Trail has spent the past few years tucked away in his caravan on the Hebridean isle of Eigg, feverishly working on the follow up to Secret Soundz Vol. 1&2, his critically-acclaimed double album of DIY electronic folk-tinged croft pop, released in 2014. Now Spring has sprung, Pictish has emerged with a new clutch of songs, his most confident and accomplished sounding yet.

After more ponderous digital teasing than Radiohead reinvented as overweight sexcam exhibitionists (eeew), it is finally, finally time for us to bring to you - *drumroll* - the new single by Pictish Trail ... 'FAR GONE (DON'T LEAVE)' ... 

Tickets for Howlin' Fling, our summer party on the isle of Eigg, have now SOLD OUT!  It was our fastest selling event, with all tickets going within 5 minutes of going on sale - yowza!   If you were lucky enough to grab a ticket, congratulations! 

As that big four-eyed Viking sea monster above rightly says, Lost Map Records will be hosting a Howlin’ Fling! festival this summer over the weekend of July 1st & 2nd on our home patch, the remote Scottish isle of Eigg.  Aaaaa-wooooooooh!   Click for more info ...
 

Meet the newest addition to the Lost Map label roster: Johannesburg-based English singer-songwriter Victoria Hume. Her stunning Closing EP will be our first release of the new year, arriving on January 15, 2016 on limited-edition CD and as a digital download (pre-order here for just £6.99). The title track ‘Closing’ is available to stream and share now,

Here at Lost Map people are always complimenting us on our tight little packages, and we haven't really known what they've meant by that until now that we've put together Resort, the debut compilation album by Tuff Love, which is surely the definition of a tight little package. Bringing together on one disc all three of the band's critically-acclaimed 10" coloured vinyl EPs to date - Junk, Dross (both now sold-out and digitally-deleted) and Dregs - in chronological order, it's like a handy short history of the Tuffs to date, from mere pups to top dawgs ...

Completing their triumphant trio of introductory EPs, Julie & Suse (aka Tuff Love), are excited to announce their new EP Dregs, which is due Nov 6th via Lost Map Records.  If you pre-order the Dregs EP from the Lost Map webshop right now, you'll receive an instant download of the lead single 'Duke'.

Kid Canaveral's 2015 edition of Christmas Baubles will be an intimate affair at Pilrig St Paul's Church Hall in Edinburgh on Saturday, December 19.   Tickets have sold out.

Seamus Fogarty's new EP Ducks and Drakes is out on September 4, 2015 on super rare-edition 12” vinyl with self-designed screen-printed sleeve (250 copies only) and as a BandCamp / iTunes download.  For a limited time, you can purchase the 12" EP with the double CD of Seamo's debut album, God Damn You Mountain, at a special price of just £14.99. 

It will be launched with a "launch" show, such is the custom, at Servants Jazz Quarters in London TONIGHT ... that's Tuesday, September 1. Tickets are on sale here