As the mixing for their debut album draw to a close, The Phantom Band will be emerging from the control room, eyes blinking in the sunlight, to grace the nation's airwaves and play a benefit gig in support of the staff at Shelter. Scottish music's cultural envoy, the inestimable Vic Galloway will play host to the lads on Monday May 12th on his Vic Galloway Show for BBC Radio Scotland. There will be three live tracks and one which will be recorded and aired at a later date.

The benefit gig for the Shelter staff takes place at Box, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow on Thursday 15th of May and
will no doubt feature many of the tracks from their new album.

Not content with snogging Auntie Beeb on Vic's show, The Phantom Band will also be featured heavily on Jim Gellatly's X-Posure Show for XFM Scotland. Starting on Monday 26th of May, Jim will be playing eight Phantom Band tracks in total so if you've not had a chance to hear The Phantom Band yet, then
May might be a good place to start.

An album title and tracklistings will follow shortly - keep your pants on...

Just confirmed. The Phantom Band and De Rosa will take part in the first ever 'Sauchiehall Crawl, funnily enough on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. It takes place on Sunday 1st of June and consists of 11 bands over 3 different venues. One £15 ticket will let you pick from the 11 artist playing that evening . The full line up is The Phantom Band, De Rosa, The Twilight Sad, Make Model, How To Swim, Jo Mango, El Padre, We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Ads, Ross Clark and Galchen.

That's right, you can get your hands on the Radar Bros. brilliant new album 'Auditorium' from Monday. Featuring Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie radio favourite, 'Lake Life' and soon to be released acoustic charmer 'Morning Bird', 'Auditorium' is a shimmering, sun-dappled collection of Californian alt-folk, for lovers of Grandaddy, Pink Floyd and Neil Young. This is the Radar Bros. fourth album on Chemikal Underground and we all think it's one of their best.

"Auditorium sounds like an AM radio melting in the California sun " popmatters.com [8/10]

We've just taken receipt of the newly remastered version of 'Young Team'and it's sounding rather mighty. Not only have we improved the sound of Mogwai's 1997 debut, we've also bolstered it with an additional CD of bonus tracks including phenomenal live performances from T In The Park and Chemikal Underground's 5th Birthday Party; a BBC session version of R U Still In 2 It? featuring Aidan Moffat; a rare Spaceman 3 cover; a radio session track from WNYC and some other stuff that, well, we're not telling you about yet.

We'll have a release date for you shortly but in the meantime you'll just have to wring your hands in sweaty anticipation....

We can't thank you enough for being so supportive of our new online retail venture - the response has been amazing and continues to help us provide you with a shop that will hopefully just keep getting better. We thought that you might be up for helping us out by placing a chemikal banner ad on your blog, myspace, facebook etc. so get the code here...
Hey, it's entirely up to you and we certainly wouldn't force you but at least you know they're there if you want them....

Holy shit, it's arrived - it's here - it's finally functioning!  After many, many eons of hard graft and toil we've finally managed to complete the new online shop and open it's virtual doors for you to majestically sweep through and start purchasing Chemikal goods by the metric tonne.  We're extremely proud of it - if we were to be completely honest - and feel that it's exactly what a record label's online shop should be: informative (there are notes on every single release); accessible (it lets you stream EVERY SINGLE track in our catalogue for free - whether you buy them or not); exhaustive (there's a whopping archive of reviews on all the releases going back over twelve years); generous (there are some rather jaw-dropping prices to be had) and loyal (we will be providing our mailing list subscribers with special coupon codes so you can purchase new releases cheaper than anywhere else on the globe).

Have a look around, check out our new merchandise (exclusive chemikal underground t-shirts, bags and hats) or take a punt on some of the items from our catalogue you've not got round to buying yet.  All releases are available as digital downloads, tagged with cover art and in some cases lyrics - for £0.69 (yeah, fuck you iTunes).  Happy shopping and please feel free to let us know what you think of it: we've put an awful lot of work into this shop and it's only because we like you guys so much...

The address is: http://shop.chemikal.co.uk (who needs 'www' anyway.....)

Yes we can finally put all that Merry Christmas and Happy New Year bullshit behind us for another 11 months and concentrate on running a record label. 2008 promises to be a year of old favourites and new blood, beginning with the tantalising old/new prospect of an Aidan Moffat solo album! As trailered over the last month or so, Aidan's "I Can Hear Your Heart" album is due out in February and is already starting to attract hyperbolically effusive press attention...

"Adults Only" spoken word from the Scots Bukowski...UNCUT [4/5]

"Certain to be 08's most intimate album, and an early contender for being its best..."   ROCKSOUND [9/10]

Aidan has performed some exclusive versions of tracks from "I Can Hear Your Heart" on YouTube and you can see them by visiting our YouTube site.  He's performed "Hopelessly Devoted", "Beak", "Fuck It" and "Super Sexxxy Real Live" so check them out prior to the release of the album in February and in case, you're too pigging lazy to click on the YouTube link, we've embedded the video for "Fuck It" right here for you, don't say we're not good to you...

'Auditorium' by Radar Bros. coming February 25th...
The fantastic new Radar Bros. album is released towards the end of february, with the Digital Download single 'Lake Life' already starting to pick up plays on Radio 1 with Rob Da Bank giving it a spin on Sunday night. Chemikal Underground will be releasing 'Auditorium' around the world with the exception of North America where our inestimable friends at Merge will be doing the honours. We think 'Auditorium' serves as an emphatic reminder of why we loved the Radar Bros. so much in the first place and what better way to remind everyone else how good they are by posting a free track up on our site for you to download...

'Warm Rising Sun' by Radar Bros. (mp3 / 3.3Mb)

For those of you who are cosmopolitan enough to live in LA, the Radar Bros. are playing a weekly residency at The Echo Lounge every Monday in January. And in case that isn't enough, well, here's the video for their US single "When Cold Air Goes To Sleep". We're saying nothing, just watch it...totally priceless.

Mogwai Young Team - Uber Remastered Version With Bonus Tracks!!
It's been ten years - believe it or not - but the impressive power of Mogwai's debut album has not been diminished with age. We've been talking to the band and felt that it was time to remaster the album, augment the liner notes and include some extra tracks (eight to be precise) to create an anniversary version of Young Team that would manage to improve on the original while offering you guys value for money. The release is pencilled in for April depending on how the mastering sessions go but keep your eyes peeled for full tracklistings in due course....