Muscles of Joy: Room of Their Own
By Simon Ward. Published 06 February 2012
Glasgow’s Muscles of Joy, an all-female vocal-led septet, talk about building their own instruments and jamming away rather quietly
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We Are Augustines: Back from the Brink
By Finbarr Bermingham. Published 06 February 2012Having penned a concept album based around family bereavement, The Skinny is surprised to find a New York trio happy to be just making music
Tangles: 21st Century Schizoid Man
By Steev Livingstone. Published 31 January 2012Tangles' Ricky Egan documents his many recording guises and explains how he went from obscurity to soundtracking a prime-time BBC soap
Django Django: Away with the Pharaohs
By Steev Livingstone. Published 30 January 2012Drummer and producer Dave Maclean explains the influence of history and sci-fi on Django Django's long-incubating debut
Discopolis: Into the Rainbow Vein
By JP Mason. Published 05 January 2012Having started life as a Bloc Party tribute act a few short years ago, Edinburgh's Discopolis have since morphed into a band that the world can embrace. The Skinny joins...
Dead Boy Robotics: Tales of the Future
By Darren Carle. Published 28 November 2011Edinburgh trio Dead Boy Robotics count Blade Runner as a pivotal influence, enjoy a bit of Xbox Live and have written a funk ode to the Jaffa Cake. A band...
Bwani Junction: “Everyone wants to think that their music is so fucking original...”
By Darren Carle. Published 03 November 2011With their bastardised name, ‘playful’ artwork and fresh Afro-Caribbean sounds, Edinburgh quartet Bwani Junction have been brightening up the musical underbelly of Auld Reekie and beyond for some time. With...
New Blood: Otherpeople
By Austin Tasseltine. Published 27 September 2011Exploring the darker side of pop on their own terms, Glasgow's Otherpeople aren't scared of a good chorus
PAWS: Smells Like Something Else
By Jason Morton. Published 31 August 2011While PAWS might conveniently fit the bill for a grunge revival, the Glasgow trio have a few more tricks up their sleeves
The Dead Man's Waltz: "We’re blurring that line between audience and band"
By David Bowes. Published 04 August 2011Accordionist Leighton Jones explains why folk-noir revivalists The Dead Man’s Waltz are bringing Vaudevillian theatre to their compelling live show
The Wrong Boyfriends: "Our acoustic sets were crap. Really, really crap"
By David Bowes. Published 05 July 2011Our first date with punk-blooded scoundrels The Wrong Boyfriends started as a guide to Belgian nightlife and ended as an HR crisis meeting...
T Break: United Fruit
By Johnny Langlands and Darren Carle. Published 30 June 2011We’ve already noted in these pages the musical kinship that Glasgow's United Fruit share with Texan rockers Trail of Dead. Heck, the excellent Go Away, Don’t Leave Me Alone sounds...
T Break: The Contenders
By Darren Carle. Published 30 June 2011Concluding the annual hunt for the best unsigned talent that Scotland has to offer, just a handful of bands made the cut from over a thousand entrants to play the...
Indian Red Lopez: Against The Tide
By Darren Carle. Published 31 May 2011Getting a dressing down from a pop diva and narrowly avoiding a small-town punch up? These have been just some of the pitfalls that have helped make Aberdeen quintet Indian...
Lady North: Technical Ecstasy
By Jason Morton. Published 04 May 2011From hatching schemes in a Tesco car-park to playing gigs for Sunday league footballers, the only way is weird for mathematic riff magicians Lady North...
Trembling Bells' Alex Neilson: "I’d probably be a professional footballer if it wasn’t for Trout Mask Replica"
By David Bowes. Published 08 April 2011With Trembling Bells’ third album on the way, drummer Alex Neilson is all too happy to debate the finer points of folk music
New Blood: Stanley Odd
By Bram Gieben. Published 09 March 2011With their new EP and a tireless touring ethic, Stanley Odd are taking Scottish hip-hop to the masses
RM Hubbert: Punk As Folk
By Martin Skivington. Published 03 March 2011Glaswegian guitarist RM Hubbert talks early influences, new horizons and playing gigs in swimming pools
New Blood: Gummy Stumps
By Ryan Drever. Published 08 February 2011The first of two bands from Winning Sperm Party's roster this month, Gummy Stumps are as challenging an act as one could hope to hear from a city renowned for...
Tu Fawning: Out Like Bats
By Dave Kerr. Published 27 January 2011Motivated by classical influences and hailing from backgrounds that have little to do with the dark matter of their music, Joe Haege gives a whistle-stop introduction to the enigma of...
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