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KRS-One @ The Liquid Room, 7 Oct
“Waste no time,” KRS-One pleads of his DJ in-between classics. Aware that this boom-bap battle mass falls at the mercy of The Liquid Room's infam... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
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The Twilight Sad / Errors @ The Liquid Room, 12 Oct
The final date of a joint tour between Scotland’s foremost post so-and-so combos was always going to be catnip for a certain clientele. In fact, one ra... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
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No Age / Male Bonding @ Stereo, 9 Oct
For Glasgow fans of Sub Pop Records, tonight was a brutally hard choice. With Mudhoney also playing down the road at The Arches, a crucial decision needed to... Read more »| 13 Oct 2010 -
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Grass Widow / Trash Kit @ 13th Note, 7 Oct
Since the last time Trash Kit came to Scotland, they've gained a good amount of positive press recognition, released their debut album on the esteemed label ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
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Mudhoney @ The Arches, 9 Oct
I’m not saying girls don’t like Mudhoney (***) – that would be a ridiculous and sexist generalisation. But judging by tonight, it’s f... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
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Eastern Promise @ Platform, 1 Oct
Wounded Knee and his age of austerity orchestra as he calls it, or rather nifty vocal loop pedal as I do, is a hypnotising act. Making no effort to reassure ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010
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The Fruit Tree Foundation presents Music Like A Vitamin @ HMV Picture House, 1 Oct
Idlewild’s Rod Jones and former Delgado Emma Pollock have been ploughing the admirable Music Like A Vitamin furrow for a few years now, gathering toget... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
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Grinderman @ Barrowlands, 28 Sep
Grinderman have described their causa causans as an “excuse to make a fucking racket”; turns out that this is something they’re particularl... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
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Manic Street Preachers @ O2 Academy, 29 Sep
A boa wrapped around a mic stand, a white Gibson being tuned by a roadie, and an empty space to the left of the stage: the Manics don’t have to be perf... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
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MGMT @ Barrowlands, 20 Sep
Scrutinise reactions tonight and a pattern emerges. Electric Feel – recorded for posterity on a sea of mobile phones. Siberian Breaks – chatter. ... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
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Wilco @ Barrowland, 16 Sep
There are presumably few more comfortable bed-rocks from which to launch a solo project than having Radiohead listed as a current employer. To make things si... Read more »| 22 Sep 2010 -
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Wolf Parade @ Cabaret Voltaire, 8 Sep
When Wolf Parade played Glasgow back in May, third album Expo 86 had yet to be released and they were just starting a new tour. Four months and many more sh... Read more »| 21 Sep 2010 -
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Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan @ O2 ABC, 8 Sep
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan are a picture as they take to the stage, she in white and he in black. The angel-devil binary is so explicit they would look... Read more »| 13 Sep 2010 -
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The New Pornographers @ Òran Mór, 7 Sep
For Freelance Whales, Postal Service is a name that will surely haunt any review. The whirring keyboard is there, and the unashamedly North American, adolesc... Read more »| 10 Sep 2010 -
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Fever Ray @ O2 ABC, 6 Sep
Wisconsin based Nika Roza Danilova – known tonight as Zola Jesus – takes to the stage for her third Scottish show in only 48 hours, yet the trans... Read more »| 08 Sep 2010