Music
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ReviewsFirst Aid Kit - Drunken Trees EP
Those Swedes have got it together. Apart from weathering economic armageddon quite comfortably, they're also pumping out spine-tingling pop (The Knife), phen... Read more »| 10 Feb 2009 -
ReviewsFabriclive 44 - Commix
Delving into the deeper end of the drum and bass spectrum, Commix have brought back the jungle in the next instalment of the Fabric Live series, number 44. ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2009 -
InterviewsRed Hot 4 U
Dark Was The Night is the fifteenth collection from the Red Hot Organisation, dedicated to fighting Aids through pop culture. Paul Mitchell looks at four of ... Read more »| 09 Feb 2009 -
ReviewsMongrel - Hit From the Morning Sun
In their finer moments here, Mongrel come over as snotty and snappy thanks to some furious emceeing from guest vocalist Pariz-1. The group pools members from... Read more »| 09 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
Electricity in Our Homes - Gymnastics
So these guys can be seen playing über-short sets in London’s trendiest nightspots (‘cos they’re all down there) and generating quite ... Read more »| 09 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
Emmy the Great - First Love
First Love is a good song – Emmy’s sweet and sincere vocals come across well over sombre acoustic guitar, and the baroque electric accentuates th... Read more »| 09 Feb 2009
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Interviews
Dark Was The Night - A Chronicle
Aaron and Bryce Dessner of the National, and John Carlin of Red Hot Organisation, describe the process of creating one of the most anticipated compilation al... Read more »| 06 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self
A work of Himalayan scale Read more »| 06 Feb 2009 -
Live Music
Copy Haho @ Sneaky Pete's, 2 Feb
Opening with their first two singles - 2006's Bookshelf and last year's You Are My Coal Mine - Stonehaven's Copy Haho flow right in to the lead track from th... Read more »| 06 Feb 2009 -
InterviewsMoffat's Lament: A Clifftop Valentine
In years to come, Aidan Moffat's name will surely become synonymous with Burns as one of the nation's great bards. Until such times, Moffat ponders a career as a gift card writer with the offering of this Valentine's Day poem. Read more »| 06 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
Asobi Seksu – Hush
Asobi Seksu deserve to be listened to without the ghosts of the 1980s lurking in your earlobes Read more »| 06 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
John Frusciante – The Empyrean
John Frusciante’s solo work has always been far more interesting than that of his day job with the Red Hot Chili Peppers: ranging from scratchy home re... Read more »| 06 Feb 2009 -
Live Music
The Cribs / The Thermals @ ABC, 4 Feb
While singer Hutch Harris occasionally flirts with Brian Molko-whininess, tonight The Thermals confidently steer themselves from the precipice of annoyingnes... Read more »| 06 Feb 2009 -
Festivals
Celtic Connections: Martha Wainwright @ Old Fruitmarket, 27 Jan
As Teddy Thompson (**) kicks off tonight's festivities, most of the largely middle-aged crowd inside the Old Fruitmarket seem attentive and fairly satisfied ... Read more »| 05 Feb 2009 -
Interviews
Trail of Dead Unveil The Century of Self: Exclusive Track-By-Track Preview
…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead return this month with The Century of Self, inspired by what front man Conrad Keely considers “a sens... Read more »| 04 Feb 2009