Music | Live Review
Dave Kerr: Having shed their ‘Enya with bounce’ mantra to become ‘Depeche Mode on peyote,’ as facelifts go Yeasayer have undergone more t...
Music | Feature
Finbarr Bermingham: Yeasayer are in love. The Brooklyn band spent the course of their stunning and somewhat inauspicious debut set All Hour Cymbals bemoaning “the t...
Music | Preview
Mark Shukla: Detroit Social Club may hail from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but they don't let that stop them from channeling the muscular spirit of US rock into their imp...
Records | Album Review
Nick Mitchell: When Yeasayer hit their groove they're virtually untouchable as a creative force. It's when they get bogged down in that trippy, sludgy quick sand tha...
Records | Round Up
Finbarr Bermingham: If, like us, you intend 2010 to be soundtracked by only the finest sonic arrangements, then the lower echelons of the Dirty Dozen should be avoided at...
Nick Mitchell: After guesting on Bat For Lashes’ new-ish album, Brooklyn band Yeasayer were an obvious choice of support for this tour. Whether the audience kn...
Nick Mitchell: Just over a year ago we spoke to Yeasayer singer Chris Keating, and, as well as stories of hanging out with Beck and crossing fingers for Barack, he h...
Ally Brown: Bat For Lashes' wonderful second album Two Suns featured collaborations with Yeasayer and Scott Walker, and now Natasha Khan has persuaded one of thes...
Nick Mitchell: In a music business where female artists are so often forced into pigeonholes – Duffy the doe-eyed kitten, Lily Allen the feisty brat, Kate Nash...
Nick Mitchell: Anyone acquainted with Bat For Lashes’ highly regarded debut Fur and Gold will know that the Brighton singer-songwriter (real name Natasha Khan)...
Music: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Title: The Century of Self (Richter Scale) Release Date: 23 February Trail of Dead were one of the few...
Nick Mitchell: Yeasayer have been touring their debut album All Hour Cymbals relentlessly for the past year, so have Brooklyn's finest experimentalists had time to e...
Finbarr Bermingham, R.J Thomson, Nick Mitchell, Dave Kerr & Ally Brown: 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 onlookin...
Music | Feature | Preview
Nick Mitchell, Finbarr Bermingham & Ally Brown: From Will Young to Holy F**k, the line-up for this year's annual shindig in Balado certainly can't be accused of one-dimensionality. Here's five acts ...
News | Lifestyle | Heads Up
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 ...