Reviews
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ReviewsFather John Misty @ Guild of Students, 16 July
There are high expectations steeped upon Josh Tillman following the universal critical acclaim of I Love You, Honeybear, his second album under the... Read more »| 18 Jul 2016 -
FestivalsT in the Park 2016: Sunday, 10 July
Huge amounts of mud can do strange things to people, but with John Grant and LCD Soundsystem still to come, there's plenty to keep spirits up at T in the Park's third day Read more »| 15 Jul 2016 -
FestivalsT in the Park 2016: Saturday, 9 July
The Saturday forecast is a little grim, but what’s T in the Park without a little drizzle? The likes of The Last Shadow Puppets and The 1975 attem... Read more »| 13 Jul 2016 -
FestivalsT in the Park 2016: Friday, 8 July
It seems 2016 will be remembered as the year T in the Park finally made itself at home in Strathallan. The teething problems of last year's event feel ... Read more »| 13 Jul 2016 -
ReviewsJames Blackshaw / John Lemke @ Glasgow Platform, 9 Jul
There's a detectable melancholy in Easterhouse; the stark, sad, drifting beauty of James Blackshaw’s material compounded by the recent announcement mar... Read more »| 12 Jul 2016 -
ReviewsThe Last Shadow Puppets @ Castlefield Bowl, 10 Jul
It’s not unlike The Last Shadow Puppets to be full of surprises – their return in itself, although rumoured for a while, came at the he... Read more »| 12 Jul 2016
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ReviewsDirty Three @ Summerhall, 5 July
We’re barely halfway through the second song, and Warren Ellis has already climbed the venue’s speaker stack to scream into the Edinburgh night. ... Read more »| 07 Jul 2016 -
ReviewsStrange Collective @ Invisible Wind Factory, 2 July
Liverpool's Strange Collective celebrate the release of their Super Touchy EP with an all-dayer comprising some of the best new bands in the city. We roll up... Read more »| 04 Jul 2016 -
ReviewsMartha @ Soup Kitchen, 1 July
“I feel like we should say something but I’m just in despair,” concedes Nathan Stephens-Griffin from behind his drumkit. ‘I miss E.U,... Read more »| 04 Jul 2016 -
ReviewsM83 @ O2 ABC Glasgow, 27 June
Ahead of tonight’s packed Glasgow show, French electropop-crafters M83 played a decisive Saturday headline set on Glastonbury’s John Peel st... Read more »| 04 Jul 2016 -
ReviewsLake Komo @ Night and Day, 2 July
Lake Komo are sincere. They peddle largely acoustic soft rock that lets you know, pretty much from the outset, that these four people like American guitar mu... Read more »| 04 Jul 2016 -
ReviewsKamasi Washington @ Manchester Academy 2, 28 June
Though he may be best known to many as the saxophonist who helped flesh out Kendrick Lamar’s game-changing To Pimp a Butterfly, Kamasi Washin... Read more »| 01 Jul 2016 -
ReviewsSaint Etienne/The Pastels @ The Art School, 23 June
So the referendum popped round and did a massive Brexit, right then and there on the living room carpet. It didn’t have to be this way, and both The Pa... Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
ReviewsCar Seat Headrest @ Broadcast, 23 June
James Hindle of The Pooches has left his bandmates at home for his opening set tonight. The songwriter has just an acoustic guitar for company, but fills the... Read more »| 29 Jun 2016 -
ReviewsTy Segall & The Muggers @ The Art School, 22 June
The trauma begins with the delinquent racket of Ausmuteants. The four-piece rip through a short, sharp support set heavy on primitive rhymes, synth blasts an... Read more »| 28 Jun 2016