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PreviewsLive 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 -
PreviewsTacoma 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 -
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The Metal Column – January 2012
Aye, aye – so a new year means new beginnings, the kicking of old habits and the setting of goals, but let's just put the unrealistic stuff aside for t... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
PreviewsHot Ticket of the Month: Celtic Connections
Beginning on 19 Jan, Glasgow's annual folk, roots and world music festival isn't just about forcing school kids into concert halls and bigging-up fiddle musi... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Wee Dub Festival @ Various Edinburgh Venues, 3-5 Feb
The Wee Dub Festival is back: this time it's a whole lot bigger and it has a Mad Professor at the controls Read more »| 31 Dec 2011 -
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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 »| 29 Nov 2011 -
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Hot Ticket of the Month: A Phestive Phantomime @ Stereo, 16+17 Dec
In case you hadn’t heard, The Phantom Band have good taste and ambition in spades and this month they threaten to outdo themselves with the unveiling o... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
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Live Music Highlights – December 2011
The month kicks off with a blistering double-bill courtesy of Nigerien psych-rock/drone-funk rebels Group Inerane and the incredible Flower/Corsano duo. Grou... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
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Arab Strap discuss the motivation to reform for one-off show
"There's absolutely no commerce involved, it's purely from love," says Aidan Moffat Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
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Festival Column: The Falls Festival, Tasmania
To me, New Year's Eve is a rubbish night. I almost inevitably find myself switching between the extreme heat of a sweaty party and the extreme cold of Scot... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011