Music | Preview
Mark Shukla: You probably don't need me to spell it out to you but The Phenomenal Handclap Band really want you to have a good time. Don't get me wrong, there's a ...
Music | Live Review
Ally Brown: Technical problems hold up tonights This Is Music at a sold-out Sneaky Pete's, meaning opening band Bronto Skylift take the stage an hour behind sched...
Music | Feature | New Blood
Lauren Mayberry: As with any genre, the true characterisation of ‘hardcore’ is difficult to pin down, what with the emergence of copious subsets and fusion...
Records | Single Review
Austin Tasseltine: Given how hard these two guys play in the live arena, recording them must be as much a matter of trying to cut out the sound of shaking fixtures and w...
Rab Shatner: Try Smiling, the debut EP from Glasgow trio Citizens -featuring Bronto Skylift's Iain Stewart on drums - is a manic mash-up of converging styles, veer...
Ally Brown: Strangely, but thankfully, the Wickerman Festival near Dumfries is a Friday-Saturday weekender, not a Saturday-Sunday affair. That's fortunate because...
Michael Hunter: Another year, another T in the Park, another T Break. Of all the events on the Scottish circuit, none is likely to provoke as much bickering, eyebrow ...
Music | Feature
Gillian Watson, Ally Brown, Chris Buckle, Darren Carle & Johnny Langlands: THE PHANTOM BAND (T Break Stage, Friday) What’s in a name? Plenty, if The Phantom Band are anything to go by. The hauntingly original Glasweg...
News | Lifestyle | Heads Up
Caroline Crew: Once again providing Scotland’s most promising unsigned acts with a rather priceless platform, this year's T Break Stage at T in the Park will b...
Ryan Drever: "At the first practice, we knew we had a beast on our hands." The frank words of Niall Strachan - one half of two-man crew, Bronto Skylift - speak for...
Austin Tasseltine: Fittingly enough for a month named after the Roman god of war, March this year has a bit of fight about it. The 13th Note in particular seems intent ...
Johnny Langlands: What with the fashionable rise of happy-clappy dross à la the Knack-pilfering Ting Tings in recent times, it’s not often a two-piece like...
Austin Tasseltine: These days, December has traditionally become associated with a tightening of the belts. Invariably we find ourselves turning down invitations to make...
