Music | Feature
Ally Brown: 1. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILIONTime is a great leveller when it comes to musical reputations, because it's much easier to make a sol...
Ally Brown: With two UK tours already under their belt this year, Animal Collective might not come back to these shores for a while. Just as well then that we too...
Lauren Mayberry: After departing indie-pop octet The Concretes in 2006 to pursue a solo career under nom de plume Taken by Trees, Victoria Bergsman’s desire to go ou...
Records | Single Review
Ian Crichton: Animal Collective are outstandingly prolific. So reason suggests that after ten years of activity, they have to put out the inevitable clunker, right?...
Film | Review | DVD Review
Alastair Roy: From the humble origins of Pontin’s holiday camp, the now global All Tomorrow's Parties festival continues to stay free of corporate sponsorship...
Euan Ferguson: With Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective opening the log cabin door for the plaid-shirted flocks of pastoral folk bands, it’s likely First Aid Kit...
Records | Album Review
Ally Brown: Victoria Bergsman's second album as Taken By Trees is born of admirable intentions: seeking to break free from her comfort zone, she travelled with a ...
Records | Feature
Nick Mitchell: With bands like M83 and School of Seven Bells being hyped to the rafters, it looks like the lush dream-pop that Ladytron have been plying for years is...
Ewen Millar: According to Michel Foucault, medieval folk would deal with their mentally ill by chucking them on a 'ship of fools' and letting them set sail togethe...
Music | Live Review
Dave Kerr: If you’ve steadfastly purchased Merriweather Post Pavilion or invested in the unamimous proclamations of the music press in recent weeks, you mi...
News | Lifestyle | Music | Heads Up
Ally Brown: So Merriweather Post Pavilion has already booked its podium place as Album Of The Year, has it? Not if the competition has anything to do with it, and...
Billy Hamilton: After a six-month long fanfare of blog-whetting hyperbole and disingenuous half-truths, Merriweather Post Pavilion has finally – FINALLY - land...
Music | Preview
Ted Maul: Emotastic up-and-coming Reading lads Kill the Arcade kick off the new year with a gig at Glasgow King Tut's on 8 Jan. Great innovators they are not, b...
Music | Feature | Label
Billy Hamilton: If variety is the spice of life then FatCat Records are piquant enough to have even the most resistant tastebuds burning. Established almost 20 years...
Sounds: 10. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (City Slang / Sonovox)No term in the music press is bandied about as flippantly as 'difficult second album'. This ostensi...
