Music
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NewsThe Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 8 November
New this week: Videos from CHVRCHES, Deltron 3030, These New Puritans, Snoop Dogg, Tricky, Yoko Ono and others; new tracks by Audion, Zomby, Autre Ne Veut, Raekwon and more; plus trailers for Spike Lee's Old Boy remake, and much more! Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 8 November
In this week's Bulletin: Pussy Riot singer goes missing in transit to Siberian prison camp; Dizzee Rascal slams Radio 1; GENERATION celebrates contemporary Scottish art; more Marvel superheroes coming to Netflix; a Gary Numan remix competition and more! Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsEminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about MMLP2 is the (admittedly scant) evidence that as an emcee, Eminem can still spit it hard with the best of the... Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Public Spaces – KP-LP
Generated in Glasgow from the collective efforts of Lewis Macdonald, double bassist Alastair Quietsch and a host of collaborators, this album takes the templ... Read more »| 07 Nov 2013 -
Live Music
Thom Yorke, Four Tet + Daphni @ The Warehouse Project, Manchester, 2 November
A combination of Victoria Warehouse's 5000 capacity, the necessary stepping up of security with the venue move from beneath Piccadilly railway station i... Read more »| 07 Nov 2013 -
Live MusicFuture Of The Left @ Broadcast, 2 November
Visibly startled by the sweltering, heaving, meat-patty of bodies, unceremoniously crammed into tonight's capacity show at Broadcast, Future Of The Left join... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013
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Live Music
Bill Orcutt / With Lumps @ The Glad Cafe, 1 November
Bill Orcutt’s following may not be large, but it makes up for that in sheer reverence and awe. The former guitarist in Miami noise legends Harry Pussy ... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Shearwater – Fellow Travelers
Like live albums and B-side compilations, cover version LPs usually occupy a fringe position in an artist’s discography, and Fellow Travelers is no dif... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Dead Flowers – Midnight At The Wheel Club
Ian Williams' vocal influences are easy enough to spot – Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave have all clearly been imbibed, imitated and revere... Read more »| 06 Nov 2013 -
Live MusicParquet Courts / Eagulls @ Mono, 31 October
Despite heavy reverb obscuring much of George Mitchell’s between-song speech, body language and delivery indicate the vocalist is not in the best of mo... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Live Music
Honeyblood / Laura St Jude / Bite @ Broadcast, 29 October
Broadcast tonight hosts three bands who differ in sound though are united in their potential to make a noise in places much further afield than the rough end... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
Interviews
LA Songwriter Julia Holter on Gigi, Lynch and Loud City Song
Julia Holter's previous albums have explored poetry and Greek tragedy. The LA songwriter and composer talks to us about how, with its themes of celebrity and the loss of love, a 1950s musical has influenced her new LP, Loud City Song Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
M.I.A. – Matangi
M.I.A. returns with a new album, this time with production masterminded in the main by longtime collaborator, Switch. It's as alternately as dark, steamy and... Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 1 November
In today's Bulletin: The music world pays tribute to Lou Reed; Scottish film studio plans complicated by US TV show Outlander; The Scotsman picks the 50 best novels of the last 50 years, and Foals' Yannis Philippakis hits out at Spotify Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
OvO – Abisso
Halloween may be done with for another year, but there are plenty of long nights ahead; plenty of inky witching hours crying out for a suitably unsettling so... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013