Music

Currently recording their debut album with Embrace’s Richard McNamara producing, Operahouse here offer up four distinctly non-Embrace sounding taster t... Read more »

They are not merely blogosphere darlings but one of the greatest American bands to emerge in a long, long time Read more »

Marty!! Time to don those Aviators and jump into the DeLorean. For one night only, we are going back to the future. Well, back to the 80s it would seem, as G... Read more »

The irony of Luke Doucet’s (**) attempt to regale a roomful of Scots with a story about his song bombing in a hall full of chatty Russian ex-pats is no... Read more »

You may have loved the 27 or so times you’ve seen Back to the Future, but you simply can’t deny the grandeur of the one and only time you saw 200... Read more »

Chris Cusack speaks to Buzz Osborne and finds it ironic that his band, perhaps more than any other, lie at the root of grunge's messy ascension into the mainstream and the compromise of punk ethics that saga entailed. Read more »

Making a name for yourself in music must be pretty difficult if that name has already been firmly established by a successful parent. Unlike Sean Lennon or J... Read more »

If you were down with your American hip hop back in, say, 2003, you may have distant, hazy memories of a Californian rap duo who came bursting onto the scene, touted by some as the next big rap import from the West Coast. They were called Silibil 'n' Brains, a cheeky, outspoken hip hop outfit from Hemet, California. They had a record deal with Sony and Jonathan Shalit, a.k.a. The Man Who Discovered Charlotte Church for a manager. They were living the high life – private parties, all access passes, award ceremonies, cash, girls... Read more »

Having spent much of the last eight years moonlighting with various bands - most notably recording a clutch of demos with half of The Smiths in his basement ... Read more »