Having just come off tour with Ride, and playing to a packed out tent at Field Day, Tuff Love are currently locked away in Suse's flat, putting the finishing touches to some new recordings.  DO NOT DISTURB.  We're not allowed to tell you any more about the sounds emanating from that room ...

BUT ... we can tell you that the band have just announced a string of dates in November.  They're playing Sheffield (9th), Leiceister (10th), Brighton (11th), London (12th), Hebden Bridge (13th), Manchester (14th) and York (15th) ... with more dates to be announced later.

But before all that, the Tuffs have got a jam-packed summer of festivals ...

Lost Map Records are thrilled to announce a brand new hairy live music and comedy all-day happening for summer 2015: Lost Map's Howlin' Fringe! at Penicuik Town Hall in Penicuik, Midlothian on Saturday, August 8, 2015. 

Tickets go on sale Thursday 21st May.  For more info, click here: http://lostmap.com/howlinfringe

Lost Map's leading (only) psycho-tropical pop band Insect Heroes are not of this universe.

Latest single, ‘Beautiful World’ is a desolately beautiful garage-psych ballad that sings to the death grip intensity of true romance amid the early-morning dregs of a party, with a chorus none more toxically euphoric than “I’m so happy, I could die”.  Frontman George Thomas, has put together a video of reverse tree-surgery, in which trees regenerate around a colour-flipped city-scape ...

Beautiful World has yet another incarnation ... If you head over to our CLUMPS section, you can tune in to BBC Radio 4000 and get your ears around Beautiful World, a podcast/radio-play performed, and put together for your ear-hole enjoyment by the band.  

It's Record Store Day this Saturday (18th April) - a day where music fans, and queueing enthusiasts, joyfully gather together in one big conga-line.  You can purchase rare re-pressed records, new depressed records, scratch'n'sniff cassettes and talk to people directly in front of you, and directly behind you, in an orderly formation.  It's a celebration of music and the people who like music.

Ladies and gents, for Record Store Day this year, Lost Map brings to you ... a split 7" single from Tuff Love and Lazy Day, and a 12" live LP from Randolph's Leap.

GRAT 00°5 - Tuff Love / Lazy Day 
'Groucho' b/w 'Portrait', 7" + download

GRAT 00°6 - Randolph's Leap
Most Clunky, 12" live LP

Rozi Plain, one of the most unique and original voices in alt-folk, has a spellbinding new album -  Friend - which is released on May 4, 2015.   

You can now pre-order the album on CD, LP (with download), or as part of a special t-shirt bundle from the Lost Map webshop ...

Hot on the heels of their Dross E.P., released in February ... Tuff Love have a brand new, exclusive single, 'Groucho' - a süper loved-up blast of woozy harmony-driven scuzz-pop, which premiered over on The Line Of Best Fit earlier this week. 

The song is being released in select independent shops for Record Store Day, as part of a split 7" with Lazy Day.   Tuff Love are also out on tour, starting TOMORROW (Thursday April 2nd) IN LONDON, so be sure to go and see 'em - click READ MORE for dates and ticket links ...

Josie Long joins the Lost Map family, with two hilarious comedy shows collected on limited edition cassette tape / download. New t-shirts also in stock!

Fresh from a UK tour supported by The Pictish Trail, Josie Long (aka the official Funniest and Nicest Person You Will Ever Meet Ever™) has released a limited edition oceanic-blue C-90 cassette tape - yes, a tape, remember tapes? - on oor humble label as part of our LOST CAT series.

It doesn't feature a collection of Josie's lesser-know bassoon jams (much as we wish it did) but instead two of her incredibly funny live shows, 2010's Be Honourable, and 2011's The Future Is Another Place.   We've also got some new t-shirts in stock, designed by Josie's favourite illustrators ...

If you are a fan of stand-up comic Josie Long, then you are not alone.  Because Lost Map loves her, too.  And we're overwhelmed with excitement to announce that she'll be joining us at Glasgow's CCA on Saturday March 21st, as part of the Randolph's Leap music & comedy bonanza, I Can't Dance To This Music III. 

NOT ONLY THAT ... Josie has become a full-fledged member of the Lost Map family, as we are releasing a limited edition blue C-90 cassette tape (!) featuring two of her live shows - 2010's Be Honourable, and 2011's The Future Is Another Place - as part of our LOST CAT series ... alongside a range of brand new Josie Long t-shirts.  PHWOAAAR.  We'll be selling these through our web-shop soon ... but you'll also be able to grab 'em if you come to I Can't Dance To This Music III.  

Following süper-packed launch shows in Glasgow and London, Tuff Love's Dross EP is OUT NOW via Lost Map Records on 10” pink vinyl (w/ download code) and on iTunes/BandCamp.  Tuff Love will embark on a UK tour in support of Dross in April, as well as some summer festivals including Long Division in Wakefield ...

The wait is over!  Tuff Love's highly anticipated sophomore release, Dross E.P., is out NOW on Lost Map Records.  We've lovingly pressed the E.P. up on baby-pink 10" vinyl, and packaged it with a hand-drawn riso-printed lyric map, and download code.   You can purchase it from our webshop, from our BandCamp page, or from the best independent record shops up and down the UK (if your record shop doesn't stock it, point them in our direction!).  Alternatively, you can grab a copy from the band themselves, on their upcoming live dates ...

with British Sea Power, eagleowl, Monoganon 

& Joe McAlinden

Lost Map are thrilled to be taking part in this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, co-curating a bill at the O2 ABC (formerly the ABC Regal) on Thursday 19th February 2015, for a night of live sonic cinema events exploring time and tide, sound and vision ...

Tuff Love's ear-thrilling sophomore release, DROSS E.P., is out on Lost Map Records on February 9th 2015.  To celebrate, we're throwing a launch party down at Nice'n'Sleazy's in Glasgow on Friday February 6th. 

In addition to Tuff Love playing live, the band have invited Min Diesel - from Aberdeen's Cool Your Jets label - and Phillip from PAWS, who will be doing a solo set ...

JULIE AND SUSE ARE TUFF LOVE, AND THEY LOVE YOU.  THEY’VE GOT A NEW SINGLE, CALLED ‘SLAMMER’ - WHICH IS OUT TODAY VIA ITUNES, AND ALSO AS PART OF A SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PACKAGE FROM THE LOST MAP WEBSHOP!

Tuff Love want you to join their new fan club (which intially was going to be called Tuff Love’s Fanny Pack) called FRIEND CLUB.  You can become a member of the FRIEND CLUB, and instantly receive an MP3 of ‘Slammer’, by pre-ordering the Dross E.P..

Insect Heroes' debut album Apocalypso is finally unleashed upon the cosmos - own it now on sumptuous 12" vinyl (with CD + limited edition postcard artwork) or on CD (with limited edition postcard artwork) via the Lost Map webshop. If you'd like to try before you buy, Apocalypso is streaming for one week only on WOW247, where you can also read an interview with Insect Hero George.