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Admiral Fallow – Tiny Rewards
There’s something crystalline about Tiny Rewards: maybe it’s frontman Louis Abbott’s clear tenor reaching upwards (paired often with Sarah ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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The Waterboys @ Ross Bandstand, Edinburgh 28 August
You can’t look away from Paul Brown. The Memphis keyboardist and relatively new Waterboy wears a wildman’s grin through the entire show and plays... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Lake Street Dive – Side Pony
As comfortable playing the heartbroken as the heartbreaker, Lake Street Dive singer Rachael Price, with gospel pipes and an old-school jazz sensibility, mana... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Beach Fossils – Somersault
In 2013’s Clash the Truth the Brooklyn band played with punk and New Wave influences. The result was more impressive than their self-titled debut, whic... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Benjamin Clementine – I Tell a Fly
Benjamin Clementine, the self-styled “expressionist” who says he doesn’t want his backstory-turned-cover story to distract from his art, ha... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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The Last Shadow Puppets – The Dream Synopsis EP
KY Jelly and cacti. Palm tree debris and a jar of coffee. High-wire existential crises met with a sprezzatura sex appeal, strings'n'saxophone and shadow pupp... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Sun Ra Arkestra / Richard Youngs @ Summerhall, 20 August
The lights in Summerhall’s Dissection Room dim at 21:44 Thursday night: they’d made us wait. First through a half-hour delay; then through a horr... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Antonio Forcione and Adriano Adewale at Assembly George Square, 23 August
Plenty in the George Square Assembly One crowd tonight have seen guitarist (and 2001 ‘Best Spirit of the Fringe Award’ winner) Antonio Forcione a... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Festivals
Lydia Kavina talks theremins and Jura Unbound
In one of the early video recordings of a theremin performance, a soft-eyed Russian man in a double-breasted blazer pulls (and pushes) a keening vibrato soun... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Black Sorrows @ The Spiegeltent, Edinburgh, 12 August
With one hot solo per song, a tight band sound, the occasional bat-out-of-heck howl, and the kind of drumming you don't notice (even, unfortunately, during a... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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SxSW Music Diary: Big Boi, Gymshorts, Yonatan Gat
It's 3:42 pm on a Tuesday in Austin, Texas. Pumped out of The Lodge at 411 6th St. – a bar beloved by UT Austin undergrads – is a ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Warpaint – Heads Up
Whiteout, the stealthily beguiling opening track to Warpaint’s Heads Up, reassures the listener that the band’s third album won’t be as bad... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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Prophets of Rage – Prophets of Rage
Prophets of Rage consists of Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk of Rage Against the Machine; Chuck D and DJ Lord of Public Enemy; and B-Real of Cypre... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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T in the Park 2015: Friday, 10 July
Strathallan Castle sits aloof above its new tenants, the Tennent's swilling masses camped in colorful tents swathed in mist and smoke from portable grills. I... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Books
Canongate: The 40-Year Itch
Last month we looked at how Canongate are celebrating their 40th anniversary by inviting the nation's leading movers and shakers across the arts to nominate ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Canongate: Life Begins at 40
Canongate are a true Scottish success story. Founded in 1973, they were for many years a small, but well-respected independent publisher, producing limited p... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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T in the Park 2015: Saturday, 11 July
Punters arriving on day two of T in the Park could be forgiven if they found Strathallan a home-from-home. Less than 48 hours after the gates had opened for ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Open Rhodes: Dan Rhodes in Interview
The last year or so have been pretty productive for Dan Rhodes, what with the release of his fifth novel, This Is Life, and then Marry Me, a collection of wi... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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T in the Park 2015: Sunday, 12 July
By Sunday, the ground at Strathallan is 'spongy' at best. An overnight deluge has added to the weekend's sogginess and a few early revellers cowp into the mu... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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The Future of Storytelling: Canongate's 40
“40 seemed an appropriate age to look at where we had come from and where we are going,” explains Francis Bickmore, Publishing Director at Canong... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Star Wheel Press – Life Cycle of a Falling Bird
When a lead singer possesses such a distinctive burr, it’s often easy to overlook everything that sits behind it. Not so on Life Cycle of a Falling B... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
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Top Ten Events Scotland 20-27 Feb: Cairn String Quartet, Glasgow Film Festival + Nymphomaniac
The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events Scotland 20-27 Feb: Cairn String Quartet, Glasgow Film Festival + Nymphomaniac &n... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
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Things To Do Scotland 18-25 Jun: West End Festival All-Dayer, Mogwai + Cake Fest
1. MUSIC | West End Festival All-Dayer Òran Mór, Glasgow. 21 Jun, 3pm, £20 (£18) he... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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Top Ten Events Scotland 9-16 May: Tectonics Glasgow, John Grant + Bill Bailey
Top Ten Events Scotland 9-16 May: Tectonics Glasgow, John Grant + Bill Bailey THE WEEK AHEAD Y... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Opening Doors to New Writing
'When I meet Mark and Rodge, they’re eager to tell me all about The Year of Open Doors, their new writing collection which features work by Dou... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 14 June
STUART BRAITHWAITE, AIDAN MOFFAT & MORE TO PLAY SIGHTHILL STONES BENEFIT GIGThe Sighthill Stone Circle in Glasgow was erected in 1979 by the Gl... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 24 May
HAVE YOUR S.A.Y! SCOTTISH ALBUM OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC VOTE ON MONDAYOn Monday 27 May, public voting opens for 24 hours so that you can make your voice heard in... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago