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Pivot @ Nice 'N' Sleazy, 3 Oct

Music :: Live Review 07 Oct 2008

Jason Morton: When Australian math rockers Pivot take the stage at Nice ‘N' Sleazy, it’s almost a challenge to the audience. Addressing an assembly of hipsters, without words, the band throws down the gauntlet with a cut that screams (and imagine an Auss...

Rage against the Machine

T in the Park 2008 @ Balado, 11-13 Jul

Music :: Live Review 21 Jul 2008

Ally Brown, Nick Mitchell, Dave Kerr, R.J Thomson, Finbarr Bermingham: After breaking the undercarriage of the Skinnymobile on its rocky exit from T in the Car Park last year, much to the peculiar amusement of an onlooking policeman, it's with caution that we roll up to Balado this year with a plan for all eventualities. ...

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Battles Park it in Balado

Music :: Feature 08 Jul 2008

Dave Kerr: “I’d like to see the Pogues…never seen them!” Speaking from a tour bus en route to Minehead for All Tomorrow’s Parties – guitar virtuoso, keyboardist and all round sound manipulation guru Ian Williams can think of n...

Rage Against the Machine

Don't Rage: More T in the Park Tickets to go on sale

Heads Up :: News 13 Jun 2008

Dave Kerr: Hot on the heels of the news that there's still an opportunity to do Glasto this Summer, it seems that frustrated Scottish festival fans who can't be bothered travelling south of the border for their fix might still rejoice. One last batch of T in the ...

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A Muso's Top 10: Battles

Music :: Feature 23 May 2008

Ian Williams: “I’m not bad, I can fend for myself” says Battles guitarist Ian Williams of his culinary skills. “I’m an intuitive person so I can usually make something work when I have no idea what I’m doing, that’s the way ...

2007 - A Year in Music (Part 2)

Music :: Feature 07 Dec 2007

Sounds: 5. Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris (Polydor)It's never easy on the ego when the fruits of your labour take a kicking. That probably counts for double when your band happens to be Queens of the Stone Age, a group that delivered three of the...

Battles @ The Liquid Room

Music :: Live Review 07 Nov 2007

Dave Kerr: This support slot fits Dave Longstreth and his Dirty Projectors like some sort of rare glove designed for awkward hands. Encountering a fair few what-the-fucks in response to their 're-imagining' of Don Henley and Black Flag songs as they have, they sh...

Battles @ The Liquid Room

Music :: Preview 08 Oct 2007

Ally Brown: Battles really broke through this year – the Warp-signed supergroup-of-sorts blew 2007 apart with their debut single Atlas in February, and first album Mirrored in April. We gave the album a rare 5-star review and six months later, it's definitely...

Battles @ ABC 2

Music :: Live Review 10 Jul 2007

Jay Shukla: Listening to Battles' debut album, Mirrored, it's hard to imagine that any band could even approximate such a complex and layered sound in the live setting. Tonight, despite the ridiculously humid conditions inside ABC 2, the quartet shatter (excuse th...

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Strange Reflections

Music :: Feature 11 May 2007

Jay Shukla: Complacency can be a wonderful thing. Without it we wouldn't be able to enjoy the big goofy grin and sense of blissful astonishment that comes after being smacked around the chops by the full force of the unexpected. Any idiot can be shocking, but to s...

Battles @ The Venue

Music :: Live Review 15 Jun 2006

Jay Shukla: Drooping shoulders and yawning visages pepper the crowd tonight, and as the clock ticks towards 2am there is a sense that Battles will need to pull off something pretty special in order to win over this weary throng. Thankfully, any anxieties are put t...

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Battles

Music :: Feature :: New Blood 16 Apr 2006

Jay Shukla: The gusto of genuine originality and the willingness to experiment are rarely concomitant with popularity. History is, unfortunately, littered with examples of artists who never reached the audiences that they rightfully deserved. And yet, occasionally...