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PreviewsJack Peñate @ Bongo Club, 16 Jun
Jack Peñate kicks off his summer season with a pre-festival June tour, previewing his forthcoming second album, to include new single Tonight’s ... Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
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Teitur @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 7 Jun
Ultra-melancholy, ludicrously talented, doe-eyed singer-songwriter, blah blah blah… It’s easy to dismiss Faroe Islands native Teitur Lassen as t... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
PreviewsJarvis Cocker @ ABC, 12 Jun
Out of the ashes of Pulp, the '90s ambassadors of Sheffield Sex City for whom the Britpop label felt more like a noose, rises the awkward phoenix of Jarvis C... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
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De La Soul @ Picture House, 5 Jun
Pioneering hip-hop trio De La Soul return to our shores, and woe betide anyone still foolish enough to call them hippies. In the two decades since their dayg... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
FestivalsExit Festival
Exit Festival celebrates its ten year anniversary this July and will host over 600 performances across 25 stages within the cobbled streets surrounding Petro... Read more »| 05 May 2009 -
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Manic Street Preachers at Barrowlands
Fourteen years since the end of Richey-era Manics, only the most blinkered, boa-clad 4realist would persist in crying Judas over the band’s continuatio... Read more »| 01 May 2009
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FestivalsCold War Kids @ Stag & Dagger Festival, Glasgow, 23 May
Formed in California in 2004, Cold War Kids released their debut album Robbers and Cowards in 2006. Heavily inspired by Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan, Nat... Read more »| 01 May 2009 -
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Metal Up Your Ass - May, 2009
As the first hints of summer drive many of society's margin-walkers further underground, fortunately the world of loud music attempts to offer some consolation. Read more »| 30 Apr 2009 -
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Inaugural Hinterland Festival Kicks Off Tomorrow
As previously announced, Glasgow is to be hit by a musical maelstrom of the cream of today’s indie/rock/electro finest. Hinterland Festival takes place... Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
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Vivian Girls @ Stereo, 21 May
Vivian Girls are a trio who have set out to prove to their more pretentious Brooklyn counterparts that every song doesn’t have to be a wild, synth-lade... Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
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Live Music Highlights - May, 2009
The very best of the current Scottish crop - and beyond - perform as part of the Stag and Dagger festival on 23 May. Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
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This Is Music - Third Birthday-Fest
This Is Music, a stalwart of the Edinburgh live music scene, celebrates its third birthday with two gigs in one night, with familiar faces and brand new friends both on the bill. Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
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Pivot @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, 12 May
Pivot are another of dance label Warp's recent forays into the world of guitar noise, and it seems that this is a successful one. The Australian trio release... Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
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Meursault @ Stag & Dagger Festival, Glasgow, 23 May
Albert Camus' Meursault is a man persecuted, and eventually executed, for his distinct inability to react with the same expanse of emotions as the rest of us... Read more »| 28 Apr 2009 -
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Chairlift @ Stereo, 17 May
Fresh-faced members of the New York scene that spawned the likes of MGMT and Apache Beat, Brooklyn’s Chairlift are not to be written off as part of the... Read more »| 28 Apr 2009