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Lauren Mayberry: It’s easy not to feel nostalgic for childhood when you consider some of the shit you went through at the hands of your siblings. You know, those...
Ryan Drever: Like that scene at the start of The Wrestler, where Mickey Rourke tapes up his wounds backstage at a community centre, Suzanne Shaw has been known to ...
David McNamara: Fife’s new down-tempo sensations are riding high on a wave of credibility after the release of their exceptional debut album, The Future That Wa...
Lauren Mayberry: Boys: who’d have ‘em? “Sometimes a high stage and lack of wireless technology prevents us from getting in about it as much as we wan...
Dave Kerr: Ranked within these pages as one of the great Scottish albums of the last decade, Aereogramme’s Sleep and Release initially provoked genre-bendi...
Ryan Drever: What's in a name? Well, with a name like Homework: not much, it would seem. Fortunately, in stark contrast to the unholy boredom and frustration often...
Eric Ledford: Loud music can be a very cathartic and beautiful thing, especially when it’s abrasive and assaults one’s senses like an elbow to the jawbo...
Ryan Drever: The result of a whirlwind creative partnership between guitarist Andy McGlone and drummer Pete Flett, Holy Mountain's live performances are largely im...
Lauren Mayberry: To those critics who thought Edinburgh venues were overflowing with bad cardis and worse lad rock, take note: Wounded Knee – with one of the mos...
Finbarr Bermingham: When a group of university students decide to combine forces and make music, the move is quite often inspired by cheap booze and the need for an alter...
Chris Buckle: No great masterplan has guided Paper Planes’ initial trajectory. In fact, when New Jerseyite Jennifer Paley first journeyed to Glasgow, singing ...
Ian Crichton: In any band's lifetime, the chance to collaborate with your primary influences is a rare honour - for many musicians, it's simply impossible; you can'...
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...
Jason Morton: In many areas of life, great things come in pairs: for your dinner, you’ve got fish and chips; for an evening drink, maybe a gin and tonic; for ...
Lauren Mayberry: Come on now, admit it: since the dawn of time there has existed an unspoken elitism which decrees that any act hailing from further north than Kilsyt...
