Music
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Live MusicStag & Dagger 2012: Glasgow
This year's Stag & Dagger Festival features stunning performances from the likes of Bear In Heaven, Conquering Animal Sound and Django Django. Three reporters, more than forty bands and DJs, over seven venues, in a little over twelve hours. Easy! Read more »| 24 May 2012 -
ReviewsRyat – Totem
A female solo artist who generates lush, complex electronic soundscapes, which ebb and flow between chamber-pop peaks and shuffling, syncopated glitchy be... Read more »| 23 May 2012 -
ReviewsUV PØP – No Songs Tomorrow
John Kevin White was one of the more obscure cult figures to emerge from the 80s post-punk / early electronic scene in 1980s Sheffield. His sometime-band, so... Read more »| 22 May 2012 -
FestivalsIn Pictures: Brew at the Bog Festival 2012
Rolling reportage from Brew at the Bog 2012 at Bogbain Farm in Inverness. Photography by Emily Wylde Read more »| 18 May 2012 -
Festivals
Stag & Dagger 2012, 19 May: Full line-up and stage times
The one-day, one-ticket festival returns to Glasgow for a fourth year, presenting an array of acts in an array of venues across the city. Here's a full line-up of what's on where and when Read more »| 17 May 2012 -
Interviews
Scottish Album of the Year 2012 shortlist announced
The ten albums on the shortlist of the Scottish Music Industry Association's inaugural Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award were announced today. Honed dow... Read more »| 17 May 2012
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Live Music
Errors / Mermaids / Mother Ganga @ The Arches, 11 May
Though he’s appeared on many a bill in one guise or another, tonight is Lewis Cook’s first ‘proper’ Mother Ganga show. He’s off... Read more »| 17 May 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: The Great Escape, Brighton 2012
The Great Escape, Brighton 2012 A few of the highlights from The Great Escape music festival, which ran in Brighton from 10-12 May, including Admiral Fallow... Read more »| 16 May 2012 -
Live Music
Perfume Genius / Cate Le Bon @ Captain's Rest, 8 May
Cate Le Bon has a clarification to make: contrary to received Twitter wisdom, she is neither German, nor a Viking. We don’t know the context to these m... Read more »| 14 May 2012 -
Live Music
Grimes @ The Berkeley Suite, 7 May
Grimes combines experimental electronica with staggeringly infectious pop in a way which is completely unique Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
FestivalsMastodon, Mogwai, New Order, Aidan Moffat (and More) Talk Festival Season
The cream of this year’s UK festival line-ups open a serious can of straight talk on the destinations they're looking forward to, memorable seasons past, and what actually happens in the VIP area Read more »| 11 May 2012 -
Live Music
Holy Mountain / Happy Particles / Body Parts @ Mono, 5 May
From the divine to the ridiculously heavy, as Holy Mountain kick out jams straddling the vintage and the envelope-pushing. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
Reviews
Nasty P – Story So Far
Story So Far by Nasty P is a cohesive, satisfying collection of hip-hop cuts aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
Reviews
King Tuff – King Tuff
Even if this brand of finely tuned garage rock is not entirely groundbreaking, and the infectious vocal hooks on each track are largely some variation on c... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
Reviews
Cornershop – Urban Turban
Cornershop have been releasing records for more than 20 years but are still bizarrely viewed in some quarters as one-hit-wonders. It's an entirely undeserv... Read more »| 09 May 2012