Previews
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PreviewsOf Montreal @ QMU, 4 Oct
In recent years, the Of Montreal experience has cultivated its theatricality to bold new heights – supporting the extended space-sex jam of Skeletal La... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsThe Black Keys @ O2 Academy, 28 Oct
This Ohio duo, comprising guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, have been having a good year. With their latest release Brothers shooting to num... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsEastern Promise @ Platform, 1-2 Oct
Platform’s Easterhouse-based cultural centre adds another string to its bow in October with Eastern Promise, a two-day festival boasting local talent a... Read more »| 20 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsLive Music Highlights – September 2010
September's gig schedule is completely stacked, and NYC posse Cymbals Eat Guitars will set the bar high at Glasgow Stereo on 4 Sep. With a fantastic debut un... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
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The Metal Column – September 2010
As a piss-poor summer gives way to the elemental gloom of the Autumn, you can take some solace in that, riff-wise, a particularly intense couple of months li... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
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Two Door Cinema Club @ Òran Mór, 17 Sep
The only band from Northern Ireland to make the longlist for BBC's Sound of 2010, Bangor outfit Two Door Cinema Club comprise Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird and ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010
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PreviewsIsobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan @ O2 ABC, 8 Sep
There has always been something mildly perverse when it comes to the sight of the innocently framed Isobel Campbell sitting side by side with the vag... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
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The New Pornographers @ Òran Mór, 7 Sep
The other Canadian supergroup – which is in no way to say inferior, just less omnipresent – The New Pornographers’s fifth album Tog... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
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Wilco @ Barrowlands, 16 Sep
Last Year saw Wilco (the band) release Wilco (the album) to typically effusive acclaim. I wonder if even Jeff Tweedy gets tired of being so good some... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Fang Island @ Captain's Rest, 5 Sep
Fang Island describe their sound as "everybody high-five-ing each other", a feeling which pretty much covers the stadium-sized guitar-shredding, clat... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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The Low Anthem @ The Queen's Hall, 30 Aug
A rose-tinted view of history would suggest that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution changed the world overnight. But like most paradigm shifts, it to... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Festivals
Edge Festival 2010: Sneaky Pete's
First up at the Cowgate's live music hub are Irish songstrels Villagers on 6 Aug. Comparisons with Sparklehorse seem fair, and frontman Conor J. O'Brien is n... Read more »| 01 Aug 2010 -
Festivals
Edge Festival 2010: The Liquid Room
Swooping in with eclectic style, one of Auld Reekie's most treasured live venues returns freshly refurbished just in time for this year's Edge. First up are... Read more »| 01 Aug 2010 -
Festivals
Edge Festival 2010: Electric Circus
The carnival atmosphere continues at Edinburgh's most eclectic nightspot. Formed from the ashes of the much missed Aereogramme, Glasgow's The Unwinding Hour... Read more »| 01 Aug 2010 -
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The Metal Column – August 2010
In a digital world of illegal file sharing and downloading, it’s good to know that we can still support artists where it really matters: on the stage a... Read more »| 30 Jul 2010