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The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go
Anyone ruing the entry of terms like "disco throwback" or "new wave revival" in to modern music's increasingly expansive lexicon would be best to leave the r... Read more »| Updated almost 16 years ago -
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The Pack A.D - Funeral Mixtape
It's no secret that everyone in life - fathers, daughters, prime ministers and priests - get the blues. But it's a fact of music that it's mainly the boys s... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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A Year in Records #9: Foals - Antidotes
Coming into 2008, several genres commonly associated with Foals were either in crisis or hampered by growing pains: dance-punk was becoming as stale as week-... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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The Gaslight Anthem @ Garage, 3 Dec
Looking like the kind of bad boys that wary mothers warn their daughters about – replete with tattoos and leather jackets – and sounding like Bru... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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of Montreal: Wild Mood Swings
Soundcheck isn’t going well for psychedelic popsters-cum-performance artists of Montreal. Kevin Barnes, mastermind of the oft-brilliant group, calls of... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Unless you've only recently been unearthed, you’re already well acquainted with Coldplay. But the blunt chances are that Life in Technicolor II won&rsq... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Emmy the Great - First Love
First Love is a good song – Emmy’s sweet and sincere vocals come across well over sombre acoustic guitar, and the baroque electric accentuates th... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
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Mongrel - Hit From the Morning Sun
In their finer moments here, Mongrel come over as snotty and snappy thanks to some furious emceeing from guest vocalist Pariz-1. The group pools members from... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
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These Are Powers - All Aboard Future
All Aboard Future, the latest from These Are Powers, is a good electro-noise-pop record, but is ultimately a tale of two halves. The nine-track LP recalls, a... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
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The Spinto Band @ The Tunnels, 21 Feb
Armed with a fresh slab of wax in the form of 2008’s Moonwink – a rollercoaster ride exhibiting twee shades of psychedelic pop – Delaware&r... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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In Case of Fire - Align the Planets
How much emoting can you take? If picking up Align the Planets, your answer to that question had better be ‘a lot’, as every word sung by Steven ... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
For the past few years, The Gaslight Anthem have gathered momentum mining classic rock standards – such as Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty &nda... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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Anarbor – The Words You Don't Swallow
At a certain point in television shows, writers will often bring in an ‘edgy’ character. This character plays guitar, sings in a band – may... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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Minus the Bear – Omni
Over the years since their inception, Minus the Bear, love ‘em or hate ‘em, have always been an interesting band. From toss-away early song title... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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The Black Keys - Brothers
After years of making spare blues-rock records, something happened to the Black Keys: they recorded with Danger Mouse, then Wu-Tang members and Mos Def, and ... Read more »| Updated almost 14 years ago -
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Dillinger Escape Plan @ The Garage, 29 Oct
Boasting one of the best-reviewed heavy metal albums of 2010 and a name synonymous with the mathcore subgenre, Dillinger Escape Plan will come packing a noto... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Drive-By Truckers @ ABC, 10 November
Pack yer flask full of bourbon and head on down to O2 ABC for an Alabama Ass-Whuppin' courtesy of Southern Rock's great revivalist hope, Drive-By Tru... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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The Dirty Dozen – Fucked Up Takeover
Pearls – At Home With You (Re:peater Records, 10 Jun) This is good! It's got a real Yo La Tengo vibe, a full sound too – like My Bloody Valentin... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Lady North: Technical Ecstasy
You walk down Duke Street in Glasgow, carrying your electric guitar, your effects pedals, heading to your first away gig – a major coup for an Edinburg... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Clutch @ Bar Bloc, 20 January
It's two hours before Clutch take the stage and Bloc's atmosphere already runs thick with alcohol and sweat. Eavesdropping suggests that some fans waited sin... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
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Panama Kings - Young Blood
Young Blood and the Panama Kings’ material as displayed on this expanded single, come across as being very informed of the Sub Pop sounds of today &nda... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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King Khan and The Shrines - The Supreme Genius of...
It's about five minutes in to The Supreme Genius of - halfway through the channelled James Brown funk of Took My Lady To Dinner - when one realises that King... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Late of the Pier - Heartbeat
With electro-pop groups continuing to gain ground on the mainstream music scene, and the genre itself leaving its marks on everything from hip-hop to metal,... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Of Montreal - Id Engager
Id Engager, whilst a bizarre choice to close Of Montreal's forthcoming Skeletal Lamping, makes for an excellently jilted dance-pop single. Though a little li... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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The Streets @ Barrowland, 4 Oct
“I want to try something out,” Mike Skinner declares. He wants the crowd to wait for the appropriate moment, then – basically –&lsquo... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Pivot @ Nice 'N' Sleazy, 3 Oct
When Australian math rockers Pivot take the stage at Nice ‘N' Sleazy, it’s almost a challenge to the audience. Addressing an assembly of hipsters... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Yoshi - Save the Children
There must be something in the water over in Rosyth, and these Fifers have been drinking litres of it. Bringing together a lil’ psychedelia and a dash ... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Jenny Lewis @ QMU, 18 Oct
Sans Watson Twins, sans Rilo Kiley, ginger indie-pop dream Jenny Lewis breezes into Glesgie in October, hot on the heels of her new LP Acid Tongue, welcoming... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déja Vu Live
A conversation of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s merits could be the same today as it was in the 70s. Fan 1: “Have you heard that new album by ... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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El Guincho - Alegranza
Alegranza is just what Scotland needs when faced with autumn’s volatile clouds and persistent winds: Escapism. We need marimbas; we need warm Spanish v... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago