The Arches is already near capacity, with a crowd in boisterous mood when Hector Bizerk take to the stage. It's the kind of environment where many support acts might struggle,...
A brightly lit cross, two French guys whose haircuts bob like violent metronomes, and faux-Marshall amps that double as strobes piercing an otherwise Spartan setup: this is the scene that...
It's safe to say that The Dillinger Escape Plan have played a significant part in selling out tonight's show; a touch of anxiety lingers before the inevitable storm erupts, the...
The Grand Ole Opry makes an unlikely venue in which to see The Twilight Sad. With confederacy flags and neon lighting adorning each wall, a neutral observer could be forgiven...
Tonight is Washington Irving’s second visit to ABC as part of Celtic Connections 2012. The first occupied the smaller ABC2, but the band seems undaunted by the main venue’s substantially...
Both of tonight’s acts, while ostensibly steeped in well-trodden approaches to rock, manage to infuse their music with bursts of startling vitality. For the Brighton-based trio Peggy Sue, that involves...
A raucous troupe of misfit musicians specialising in frenzied polkas, gypsy-punk, “vulgar jazz” and such like, playing to an all-seated venue staffed by itchy wardens clamping down on unauthorised dancing:...
Last year, Hysterical exploded the myth that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s introductory hype was blogger folly. The myth was already shaky – Some Loud Thunder is pretty awesome for...
If Glasgow’s indie scene feels somewhat fragmentary at the moment, it’s all the more healthy for that: lacking a unifying narrative, perhaps, but throwing up myriad acts that combine a...
The influence of tonight's headliners on Lanterns on the Lake is readily apparent: the sextet's music oozes with prettiness, and although there's definitely a sense of nerviness onstage, it doesn't...
From the ashes of Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, London quintet TOY are more in thrall to the magpie-like sensibilities of their current tour mates than the boisterous...
Clutch successfully grafts its big sound to the small stage of Bar Bloc. Chaos ensues...
After an acoustic warm-up session in the downstairs bar from Jonathan Snee (Flood of Red), Kings Tut's New Years Revolution series continues with a set from Edinburgh trio Lady North....
“You can keep chatting – Dustin’s just having a meltdown,” explains A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s Adam Wiltzie as their expected start time creeps past. Apparently, Glasgow’s Baltic temperatures...
Like post-Fromageau M83, Porcelain Raft is effectively one man’s nom de plume, but, also like M83, Mauro Remiddi is not performing alone, with live drums augmenting his array of electronics....
Conjuring enthusiasm among a disappointingly thin crowd, on a Sunday night in early January, is a test for any band, and New York’s Milagres are too meekly inoffensive to pass...
Providing some self support, Malcolm Middleton sets this evening’s gathering in motion under his Human Don’t Be Angry guise, with a collection of slow-building, effects-laced compositions, intermittently interrupted by his...
Thank goodness for The 13th Note. In the last decade this ragged, unpretentious little bar has been an enduring champion of the Scottish underground as other venues buckled and fell...
There is, inevitably, plenty of hype preceding Plastikman’s appearance at the Barrowlands tonight: one of only three UK dates, it represents a rare opportunity to witness the 1.5 live incarnation...
There’s always been something appealingly incongruous about Evan Dando’s approach: simultaneously an angst-ridden college rock icon, and the lovable creator of gorgeously countrified indie, he’s rarely allowed his impulses to...
