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Comedy
Glasgow Comedy Festival announces 2018 Programme
Glasgow Comedy Festival takes an alternative turn in its sixteenth year. The festival can claim 2018 as its biggest yet – with 500 shows across 54 venu... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Books
Scottish Poetry News: December 2019
December is quietly wrapping up 2019 with a few Christmassy happenings peppered through a calendar of non-tinseled, high-quality events. But first, going int... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Film
20 Underrated and Overlooked Films from 2023
Alice, Darling Dir. Mary Nighy As the title character in this effectively claustrophobic drama, Anna Kendrick is caught in an emotionally abusive relations... Read more »| Updated 4 months ago -
Art
A whistlestop tour of RSA New Contemporaries 2018
Consisting of a selection of last year’s graduates across five different art schools spread across the country, the Royal Scottish Academy New Contempo... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Theatre
The Skinny Guide to Scotland's Christmas Theatre
Ah, Christmas, the time of the year everyone from theatre gathers together and praises our real God; The Panto Jesus; employer of actors everywhere. But whic... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Music
Atlas Sound – Parallax
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox retains the mid-tempo groove of his band's more recent output on this third officially released LP as Atlas Sound. A s... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Music
Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu
A collaboration between Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed and thrash pioneers Metallica is indeed as bizarre as it sounds. Read: Lulu is a 90 minute concep... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Music
The Metal Column – December 2011
The Skinny likes its metal like we don't like our weather – harsh, uncompromising, brutal – and although we're unlikely to be kept pleased by the... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Music
Ceremony – Zoo
Hysteria, the lead single from Ceremony's Matador debut, hints towards an experience far removed from the grinding power-violence of the Californian quintet'... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
Music
The Dirty Dozen – March 2012
The Drums – Days (Moshi Moshi, 5 Mar)Jenny: I'm liking this so far.Jill: It's kind of got that brassy California sound.Jenny: I like the drums. Ha!Jill... Read more »| Updated about 12 years ago -
Music
The Metal Column – April 2012
The arrival of spring comes as bad news for us metal fans, right? But then it's not like we ever emerge from the dark murky depths of our bedrooms except ... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Music
Whores – Ruiner EP
Let's get this out of the way: Whores' debut release is completely blunt and confrontational. The sleazy bassline which dominates first track Daddy's Money... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Music
Ufomammut – Oro: Opus Primum
Ufomammut have been significant players in a well-populated heavy metal sect for some time now. Honourable disciples of sludge, these Italians are ever-dev... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Music
JK Flesh – Posthuman
Justin K. Broadrick's genre-hopping tendencies have been well documented across a multitude of projects: aside from his industrial metal roots in Godflesh,... Read more »| Updated almost 12 years ago -
Music
Diesel Park West – Do Come In Excuse The Mess
Despite a string of impressive UK chart singles in the late eighties/early nineties, Diesel Park West remain banished to relative obscurity, which is odd ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Music
Distance and Meaning: Jacob Bannon explains the cult of Converge
In the twenty-plus years since their inception, Converge have retained their status as one of the most relevant and respected bands in modern metal. Vocalist... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Music
Gallows / Feed the Rhino @ King Tut's, 9 October
Feed the Rhino evidently have some fans gathered here at King Tut's tonight; as the stage lights dim, the band are greeted with a fair amount of fervency w... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Music
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Of all the suspiciously frequent band reunions taking place over the past few years, elusive Canadian post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor's re... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Metal Column – October 2012
As we dive headlong into the month of Samhain, Between the Buried and Me return to Glasgow prior to the release of tech-death assault The Parallax II: Future... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Music
The Twilight Sad / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Holy Mountain @ Barrowland, 15 December
Without any sort of warning or restraint, Glasgow's Holy Mountain unflinchingly whip out the anvil-heavy speed-riffs to a partially bewildered audience. De... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Music
Foals – Holy Fire
With Total Life Forever, Foals rejected genre associations like nu-rave and dance-punk by upping the emotional stakes and working ambiance into their bluep... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Music
Midas Fall – Wilderness
The glitchy laptop beats and sparse, guitar-based atmospherics on Midas Fall's second full-length puts them neatly in line with label-mates 65daysofstatic, b... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
Music
Tartufi – These Factory Days
San Francisco trio Tartufi's penchant for lush sonic textures and gentle guitar picking shines through in every track of their sixth full-length. As such, it... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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The Bronx / Single Mothers, The Garage, 16 February
Ontario's Single Mothers have often been compared to The Hold Steady – mainly due to vocalist Andrew Thomson's vivid, half-spoken narratives ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Deafheaven – Sunbather
San Francisco's Deafheaven brought a great crossover record to the table with 2011's Roads to Judah, a dramatic debut which used the passionate aggressi... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Trigger Effect – What's Left to Eliminate?
Canadian punks Trigger Effect are running on adrenaline - most movements on their latest LP clock in at under two minutes, with little to no breathing room. ... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Music
Stag & Dagger 2013: Glasgow, 18 May
Though its sights were initially set on a healthy mix of hotly tipped buzz bands and home-grown underdogs, Glasgow's annual Stag & Dagger festival has ti... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ SECC, 13 June
It would be an understatement to bill Neil Young & Crazy Horse's first Glasgow date since 2001 as an extravagant return. As comically oversized ampl... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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The Whigs – Enjoy the Company
Garage rock revival vets The Whigs turn down the fuzz that was so prominent on 2010's In The Dark with the opening statement to their fourth album:... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Jesu – Everyday I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came
2011's Ascension showcased the guitar-led melancholia present on past Jesu staples, but it lacked the awe-inspiring sense of atmosphere that made Justin Broa... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago