Starting with first ever vinyl release of The Three EPs on Sept 14

A 6 CD set of LPs, EPs, Beeb cuts, demos and live...

The Beta Band are released a career-spanning box set on October 7. Titled The Regal Years, the six-disc set will be released through Parlophone, Regal's parent label. The set include their first three EPs, three studio albums (plus bonus tracks), a disc of live BBC sessions and a sixth CD featuring unreleased demos and additional live performances. The full track listing for The Regal Years is: DISC 1: THE THREE EPS Dry The Rain I Know B + A Dogs Got A Bone Inner Meet Me The House Song Monolith She’s The One Push It Out

Thom Yorke adds avant garde remix to 'nonclassical' project

Third album from Scottish indie four-piece has roughly accurate title

It's April 6, 1966. We're in EMI Studios on Abbey Road, where tape loops, drones and mystical incantations derived from The Tibetan Book Of The Dead herald this next revolutionary phase in The Beatles’ career

If last night was loosely the folk night of Club Uncut’s Great Escape bill, this is probably the ‘rock’ or ‘psych’ night.

Final trawl of the vaults turns up a double CD’s worth of lost sounds by the Scottish folk starsailors

The Beta Band man fights back

There’s a certain grim obligation, whenever tackling Steve Mason’s music, to harp on about The Beta Band’s first three EPs, and the distinctly spotty work which has followed them in the intervening 13 years. It’s a lot harder, though, to try and explain exactly why that initial clutch of songs are so much better.