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PreviewsThe Metal Column – May 2012
As festival season gets underway, we find that many of our favourite bands are preoccupied in distant lands, leaving us here in the dirt, so to speak, and wi... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
FestivalsClubbing at the Festivals: Playing The Field
If Scottish summer festivals leave you cold (and wet, and windy), then an escape to greener pastures might be your ticket Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
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Record Store Day in Scotland
On Saturday 21 April thousands of independently owned music stores across the world will celebrate 'Record Store Day.’ Just over a dozen independent record shops in Scotland will participate. We run through some of the special events and releases planned Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
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Hot Ticket of the Month: Frightened Rabbit's Highland Tour
Frightened Rabbit enjoy a rare excuse to venture by the northern territories and road test a few numbers from their as-yet-to-be-recorded forthcoming fourt... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
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Live Music Highlights – April 2012
Let’s not fuck about, people; Helmet in their prime could wipe the floor with your favourite band. A bit jazz, a little hardcore, and very metal, their... Read more »| 30 Mar 2012 -
PreviewsThe 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 »| 29 Mar 2012
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PreviewsThe Metal Column – March 2012
Mainstream music has taken a couple of major blows in the past month. Whitney Houston – our favourite guilty pleasure – has become the latest vic... Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
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Do Not Miss: Mark Lanegan Band @ O2 ABC, 9 March
Having cut a record with everyone but your mother (actually, better check that), modern bluesman Mark Lanegan returns – band in tow – to show off... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
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Live Music Highlights – March 2012
The drone daddy himself, Dylan Carlson brings the second half of his Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light opus to the capital as Earth take to The Caves on 8 ... Read more »| 28 Feb 2012 -
PreviewsHot Ticket of the Month: Errors
It’s one thing to be a great band but it’s quite another to make a great record. Definitive statements can become something of an albatross aroun... Read more »| 03 Feb 2012 -
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster @ The 13th Note, 5 February
The works of Philip K. Dick interpreted as post-rock art metal: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster bring some heavy conceptual rock to Glasgow's 13th Note. Read more »| 01 Feb 2012 -
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Live Music Highlights – February 2012
Comprised of Travis Stewart (Machinedrum) and Praveen Sharma (Braille), Sepalcure did a pretty good job of consolidating the countless splinters of modern da... Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
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The Metal Column – February 2012
When you think about it, it's a pretty exciting time for metal: the Scottish scene's in rude health and 'hip' blogs are wisening to the fact that the term is... Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
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Wee Dub Festival @ Various Venues, Edinburgh, 3-5 February
Dub takes over Edinburgh for a second year and, like any good sequel, everything just got a whole lot bigger – to the extent that the ‘Wee’... Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
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Live Music Highlights – January 2012
Combining electro, pop and house may be about as revolutionary as beans on toast but Edinburgh's Discopolis have arrived at a uniquely energising and euphori... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012