Music
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OpinionOn the Road: The Hazey Janes take to Europe with Wilco
Dundee band The Hazey Janes report back on their dream tour in support of Wilco in Europe Read more »| 15 Oct 2012 -
Reviews
Lapalux – Some Other Time EP
One of Brainfeeder's UK signings, Essex-born Lapalux has released on Pictures Music, and produced a self-released EP in 2011. He has also completed high-prof... Read more »| 15 Oct 2012 -
Live MusicGallows / Feed the Rhino @ King Tut's, 9 October
Feed the Rhino evidently have some fans gathered here at King Tut's tonight; as the stage lights dim, the band are greeted with a fair amount of fervency w... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
Live Music
Balam Acab / Konx-Om-Pax @ CCA, 8 October
In a sprawling electronic set which defies easy categorization, Konx-Om-Pax draws heavily on debut Regional Surrealism, but also delves into his back ca... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Eastern Promise Festival 2012 @ Platform, Saturday 6 October
Eastern Promise Festival 2012 All the action from Platform's family friendly Eastern Promise Festival 2012, featuring sets from Plank!, Richard Youngs, The ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Eastern Promise Festival 2012 @ Platform, Friday, 5 October
Eastern Promise Festival 2012 Returning for a third year, the first night of Platform's 2012 edition of the eclectic Eastern Promise Festival offered sets b... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012
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Live Music
Palma Violets / Childhood @ Electric Circus, 8 October
There’s a certain look that some bands have, a look of easy confidence from the moment they stride onto the stage. Childhood have that look... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012 -
Interviews
Alice Cooper: Keepin' Halloween Alive
Alice Cooper casts his predictions for costume choices at his Halloween Night of Fear (Iron Man, anyone?) and muses on the season’s ever-escalating appeal Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsThis Many Boyfriends – This Many Boyfriends
This Many Boyfriends’ scrappy-go-lucky debut wears its DNA like so many button badges. It’s in their name, a nod to Beat Happening. It’s i... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Live Music
PAWS / North American War @ CCA, 4 October
Tonight begins with a major disappointment: the promised rum and coke floats are unavailable. The CCA weren’t keen on the potential mess, explains a ba... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Live MusicOmar Rodríguez-López Group @ Stereo, 30 September
The Omar Rodríguez-López Group is a chimera, not a band – a catch-all name to encompass an ever-changing line-up expounding Omar’s... Read more »| 08 Oct 2012 -
Interviews
The Lost and Damned: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead return with a fury
As they set about releasing their blistering eighth album, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead’s multi-instrumentalist Jason Reece talks Texan prog, German punk and Scottish niceties Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
Interviews
Pyramid Songs: Efterklang bring their elegant new LP to The Usher Hall
From a frozen ghost town in the Arctic to the stage of Sydney Opera House, Efterklang’s Rasmus Stolberg maps out their fourth album’s journey Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
Interviews
Anything Goes: Duff McKagan talks Loaded, GN'R's legacy and living in the present
As he looks forward to Loaded's part in Alice Cooper's Night of Fear in Edinburgh this month, founding Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan discusses new project Walking Papers, the future of Velvet Revolver and the legacy of his old band Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
Interviews
Gallows: "It's time for us to come back and come back hard"
Following the release of their ferociously uncompromising self-titled album last month, Gallows' Laurent "Lags" Barnard and Wade MacNeil talk us through the band's new global outlook, the birth of Venn Records, and the future of Gallows 2.0. Read more »| 04 Oct 2012