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Yonatan Gat – Universalists
Usually when critics fawn over anyone “exploring different styles,” or “experimenting with cultural influences” they mean a pop music... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
If, instead of flaming out, Ziggy Stardust simply chased a Xanax with a dry martini and took up residence as a lounge singer at a four-star resort in the nea... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Cage the Elephant – Social Cues
Cage the Elephant’s Social Cues shows that the band can still reach for new sounds while continuing to thump out radio-friendly hits set to the same ki... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa – Black Coffee
Blues singer Beth Hart, guitarist Joe Bonamassa and producer Kevin Shirley have teamed up with old friends and new for their third studio collaboration. ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Albums of 2017 (#1): Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
Kendrick Lamar was interested in the prophets and apostles long before he realised that he had become one. Since then – sometime between the conception... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Travel
Living in Edinburgh: A Guide
A squat, stubbly, sweating man pushes through the doors of Doctors, a pub at the head of Middle Meadow Walk in Edinburgh. He pops open the neck of a light bl... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Fela Kuti – Box Set #4 (Curated by Erykah Badu)
It's not easy to comprehend the breadth and depth of Fela Kuti’s influence on contemporary music. If you’re listening closely, you can hear him i... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 11-18 Apr: Record Store Day & more
Aidan Moffatt & RM Hubbert are seriously making the rounds this Record Store Day, with performances lined up at VoxBox's party – this year, moving ... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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Connect Festival 2023: The Report
Friday starts inauspiciously. Organisers have done their best to iron out transport kinks but a remarkably small crowd greet Franz Ferdinand, leading this re... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
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Earl Sweatshirt @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 8 June
“Hands up, phones away,” Earl Sweatshirt shouts as he takes the stage, late, unsoundchecked. “We in this small-ass venue, let’s have ... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
Festivals
Positivus 2015: The Review
"Well look a-there, look a-there, look a-there look a-there-ooooh-wee!" At first we’re buffaloed: it’s Saturday night in Salacgrīva, Latvia, and... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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FFS @ The Glasgow School of Art, 16 June
Unmistakably Maelian lyrics, Sparksian hooks and the simple keyboard melodies that inspired some of Franz Ferdinand’s hits drive FFS, the supergroup&rs... Read more »| Updated almost 9 years ago -
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C Duncan – Architect
"I’ll take you everywhere I go … I’ll take you everywhere I know," C Duncan sings on Here To There. By the time we get to this track, on t... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Adrian Younge presents – Twelve Reasons To Die II (starring Ghostface Killah)
"Ayo I’m back blowin’ dust off the vinyl, I got twelve more reasons to die, snap your spinal," Ghostface Killah raps, announcing the second insta... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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James Brown is Annie @ The Jazz Bar, 17 August
Edinburgh outfit and Jazz Bar regulars James Brown is Annie play through their debut album, recorded on home soil with Average White Band's foundin... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Japan Marvelous Drummers @ George Square Theatre, 18 August
"How is a drum solo like a sneeze?" an old joke goes. "You can tell when it's coming, but you can't do anything about it." And with Japan Marvelous Drummer... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Dr. Dre – Compton
“My life’s like a soundtrack I wrote to the beat,” Andre Young rapped way back on Still D.R.E., lead single off 1999’s sextuple-plati... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Ever New: Introducing WOMPS
It’s a hot mid-March in Austin, Texas. Ewan Grant and Owen Wicksted of WOMPS, joined by touring bassist Scott McCall, are enjoying a well-earned craft ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Albert Hammond, Jr. – Momentary Masters
Stars splintering from a band for solo outings don’t just run the risk of unfavorable comparisons with the better-known body of their group’s wor... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Gunship – Gunship
A collage in grit and neon, machine grease, nostalgia, synth arpeggios and unintelligibly harmonised moans; a weird marriage of 8-bit and HD; good fun. Gunsh... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Gorillaz – Humanz
If this is the sound of good music in this tentative spring of 2017, then there is hope yet for the arts. And where there is hope for the arts, there is hope... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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BadBadNotGood – Late Night Tales
Keeping with the careful thought and high production values that have marked the Late Night Tales series since 2001, this isn’t a soundtrack; BadBadNot... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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SxSW Music Diary: CHVRCHES, KLOE & Earl Sweatshirt
Iain Cook, Martin Doherty, and Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES are waiting for The Skinny in the lobby of the W Hotel looking patient, gentle, and perfectly... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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SxSW Music Diary: Duncan Fellows, Joseph & Sylvan Esso
The sky is again a muggy white on Friday, unsettling the locals who expect unadulterated light and heat this time of year, but this doesn’t stop many o... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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SxSW Music Diary: Sugarmen, Fizzy Blood & Demob Happy
Friday’s storm brought a chill that endures through most of Saturday, cutting down San Jacinto Boulevard and Brazos in sudden gusts, the bitterest of w... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You've Come To Expect
There is no lift-off: we're only aware that we've been flying. The sound that opens Everything You've Come To Expect, the long-demanded follow-up to The Last... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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WOMPS – Our Fertile Forever
With lean trebly riffs over whines and wails, hummable hooks, and precise rhythms, Our Fertile Forever marks the official birth of a band that’s alread... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
Nick Cave’s mode, recently, has been sustained meditation. Most of the music on 2013’s Push the Sky Away is of this sort; unchanging, unmarked by... Read more »| Updated over 7 years ago -
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C Duncan Interviewed: Bedroom to Box Office
You wouldn’t have thought 150 people – seated, balancing drinks, applauders seemingly of the staid fingers-to-palm variety – could make thi... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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SxSW Music Diary: WOMPS, Hinds & Iggy Pop
"This is the hottest I've ever played," says Ewan Grant of Glasgow's WOMPS. It's actually quite cool inside The Side Bar on 7th St., but ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago