Previews
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PreviewsThe National @ O2 Academy, 26 Nov
Returning to the status of critical darlings without ever quite returning to the same well, The National have built a reputation of being one of the most sol... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
PreviewsThe Metal Column - October 2010
The remainder of the year is about to serve up an uncivil barrage of ear-baiting terror, as if to coincide with the impending winter darkness. But rather tha... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
PreviewsLive Music Highlights - October, 2010
Scottish three-piece Hey Enemy have spent a lot of time listening to Melvins, Shellac and The Jesus Lizard and have songs with names like Johnny Fucko and Pu... Read more »| 29 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsDillinger Escape Plan @ The Garage, 29 Oct
Boasting one of the best-reviewed heavy metal albums of 2010 and a name synonymous with the mathcore subgenre, Dillinger Escape Plan will come packing a noto... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsThe Psychedelic Furs @ O2 ABC, 29 Oct
Forever immortalised by the John Hughes film of the same name, Pretty in Pink became the best known (and to most the only known) release of The Psychedelic F... Read more »| 24 Sep 2010 -
PreviewsAgainst Me! @ QMU, 27 Oct
While cleaning up their act considerably since first bellowing out Pints of Guinness Make You Strong, Floridian folk-punks Against Me! have incidenta... Read more »| 23 Sep 2010
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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 -
PreviewsThe 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 -
PreviewsTwo 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 -
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 -
PreviewsThe 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 -
PreviewsWilco @ 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