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Joan Wasser

Joan As Police Woman - Nothing is Not Arresting

Music :: Feature 26 Aug 2008

Paul Mitchell: Joan Wasser struggles to come to terms with the increasing public and critical adulation her sophomore album To Survive is currently receiving. “I can never know what people are gonna think or feel about the record. It’s always a personal e...

Wire

Wire @ The Arches, 11 Sep

Music :: Preview 23 Aug 2008

Jorge Marticorena: 135 compulsory reasons to go and see Wire: (1) They are Wire (2) They are still playing music after 30 odd (odd being the operative word here) years (3) They were post-punk before the fall of punk itself (4) They can be challenging (5) They can be easy...

Santogold

Santogold @ The Liquid Room, 19 Aug

Music :: Live Review 22 Aug 2008

Nick Mitchell: Before they play a note, you just know what Glasgow's Fangs (***) will sound like. Look-at-me hair + New Romantic fashion + luminous make-up + studied nonchalance = filthy, arty electro-punk, with lashings of synth. It would be easy to label them 21st ...

Punch and The Apostles

Punch and the Apostles @ King Tut's, 16 Aug

Music :: Review 21 Aug 2008

Austin Tasseltine: Although Empires (***) have a right good stab at some very Scottish indie rock, aided by their tasteful use of violin (not to mention the amusing juxtaposition of World's Highest-Held Guitar/World's Lowest-Slung Bass), frankly they always faced an uphi...

Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh: Paradoxical Undressing @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13 Aug

Music :: Live Review 21 Aug 2008

Dave Kerr: Paradoxical Undressing is the extreme state of hypothermia where the illusion of body heat causes sufferers to remove their clothes and worsen their condition. Tonight, Kristin Hersh uses the syndrome as an analogy to explain the casting away of her pe...

Mercury Rev

Mercury Rev's Theory Of Evolution

Music :: Feature 20 Aug 2008

Finbarr Bermingham: It sometimes seems like an age ago, yet conversely, it now seems like only a couple of months have past since a friend gave me a copy of Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev, such is the timeless quality of their magnum opus. Unbeknownst to myself, and prob...

Bonde do Rolê

Bonde do Rolê @ The Lemon Tree, 15 Aug

Music :: Live Review 20 Aug 2008

Jaco Justice: With their own MTV show in their native Brazil, an album deal with Domino Records plus an appearance due the following night at the suffocating ‘stylismo’ that is the Arches' Death Disco there's much reason to be present for the drippingly ...

Serj Tankian

A Serj of Controversy

Music :: Feature 19 Aug 2008

Shaun Love: Having almost entirely written, performed and produced Elect the Dead, has the experience of going solo improved or changed you much as a musician? "Absolutely, as a songwriter it presented a lot of interesting challenges and as a musician I got to ex...

Bestival (2007)

Bestival 2008 @ Isle of Wight, 5-7 Sep

Music :: Preview 19 Aug 2008

RJ Thomson: Girls always look super hot at festivals: the sun's out, the sounds are soothing, you've provoked your loins with some substance or other, and a general whiff of 'life is beautiful' is on the air. So, when I found out that this year's Bestival fancy dr...

Noah and The Whale

Noah and the Whale @ Cabaret Voltaire, 15 Aug

Music :: Live Review 19 Aug 2008

Jason Morton: If there's one thing to be realised at Cabaret Voltaire tonight, it's that the kids dig Noah and the Whale. Playing to this young assembly, the Whalers steam through just about all of Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down with note-for-note precision. Indee...

Broken Social Scene

Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning - Something For All of Us

Music :: Records :: Feature :: Album Review 18 Aug 2008

Ally Brown: “It’s a very confusing time for musicians,” Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning told The Skinny late last year in the bowels of Glasgow’s Arches. There to play with his BSS buddy Kevin Drew, then promoting his first solo...

The Twilight Sad @ The Liquid Room

The Twilight Sad / Frightened Rabbit @ The Liquid Room, 14 Aug

Music :: Live Review 18 Aug 2008

Darren Carle: The Liquid Room suits Frightened Rabbit well tonight, though their burgeoning popularity ensures that a good viewing spot quickly becomes a closely guarded commodity. But even after a thorough work-through of a surprisingly strong set for a band just t...

Laura Marling

Laura Marling @ Bannerman's, 12 Aug

Music :: Live Review 18 Aug 2008

Finbarr Bermingham: “Is that sweat dripping from the ceiling?” an intrigued Laura Marling asks her first sold out crowd of the week. Indeed it is, dear. Welcome to Bannerman's. In fairness, the inquiry was borne out of curiosity as opposed to disgust: “I...

Connect

5 Reasons to haul ass to Hydro Connect

Music :: Preview 14 Aug 2008

Ally Brown: 1. The Location - It's in the grounds of a castle on the banks of Loch Fyne. If you can't appreciate that you must be a blind man who lives in a castle. You're not though, are you? 2. The People - There's no easy way of putting this: everyone at Hydro...

J Spaceman

Spiritualized in the next dimension

Music :: Feature 13 Aug 2008

Paul Mitchell: The Large Hadron Collider near the Franco-Swiss border is a particle accelerator designed specifically to test the limitations of current particle physics theory and unlock many mysteries regarding the origin and nature of the universe. It is a marvel ...

Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague @ The Liquid Room, 8 Aug

Music :: Live Review 12 Aug 2008

Marta Nelson: The Second Hand Marching Band (**) are an easy way to warm up the evening. The eleven piece ensemble play an astonishing assortment of instruments from accordions to trombones and while their ability to gel is impressive, although their ease translate...

Drive By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers @ The Liquid Room, 6 Aug

Music :: Live Review 12 Aug 2008

Finbarr Bermingham: The only real surprise about tonight’s show in The Liquid Room is the absence of a row of chicken wire along the front of the stage. The music was always going to be superb, there was always going to be more females onstage than off (Shona Tucker...

Shout Out Louds

Shout Out Louds @ Cabaret Voltaire, 7 Aug

Music :: Live Review 11 Aug 2008

Nick Mitchell: If, as popular conception dictates, Swedes really do only follow one of two musical extremes - church-burning black metal or polyphonic, wide-eyed pop - then Shout Out Louds have definitely chosen the latter. The Stockholm quintet combine the dreamy am...

The Icarus Line

The Icarus Line @ King Tut's, 6 Aug

Music :: Live Review 11 Aug 2008

Paul Neeson: Roaring through their six song set in a Black Flag styled rage, Dead or American [**] seem almost unable to relent in their projectile execution of barbed, hardcore punk, though when they do so in an isolated moment, a masterful instrumental build pro...

Isaac Hayes

Isaac Hayes Dies at 65

Music :: Heads Up :: News 11 Aug 2008

Ally Brown: Isaac Hayes was best known in his later years as the voice of Chef from South Park, the school cook and town lothario who always broke into inappropriate song when giving advice to the children. Under this guise he had a 1998 UK No.1 with the song Choc...

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