Music
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NewsFactory Floor remixed by Carl Craig and Laurel Halo
Out this week on DFA Records, the new single from Factory Floor features remixes from Detroit techno legend Carl Craig, and experimental synth-pop maven Laurel Halo Read more »| 10 Dec 2013 -
VideosBroken Bells share video for 'Holding On for Life'
Today Broken Bells release a new video for their track 'Holding On for Life', a beautifully realised vision of a future love story. The video is an alte... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Live MusicRocket From The Crypt / The Computers @ Classic Grand, 3 December
With image, schtick and sound all displaying a clear debt to the night’s headliners, The Computers tackle their support duties like enthusiastic unders... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
InterviewsLicence 2 Chill: Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning scales back on new LP
With his second solo album ready to drop, erstwhile Broken Social Scenester Brendan Canning considers playing the political game, his doppelganger, and the importance of taking it easy Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Videos
Loki, Gasp, Louie and Mistah Bohze launch new hip-hop collective, Toy Control
A renaissance in Scottish hip-hop is underway. Four of the Glasgow scene's leading lights have this week launched a new venture, in the form of a hip-hop collective, Toy Control Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Live Music
The Dismemberment Plan / Great Cop @ Stereo, 28 November
With a Fugazi-referencing moniker and a Hüsker Dü cover centre of tonight’s set, Great Cop aren’t coy about their influences.... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013
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Videos
The Twilight Sad & RSNO – The Wrong Car (Live at Paisley Abbey)
In anticipation of their first full band gigs in almost a year, we bring you a double whammy Christmas treat courtesy of The Twilight Sad with this exclusive... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Videos
Julian Casablancas and Daft Punk team up for new Instant Crush video
One of the standout cuts from one of the biggest albums of the year, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (we gave you our first thoughts on the album back in ... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
News
Warpaint share new song 'Biggy'
Psychedelic LA indie-rockers Warpaint are presently lining up their self-titled, long-awaited sequel to 2010 debut The Fool – scheduled for r... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Interviews
Baubles, Labels, and Sliding Doors: Kid Canaveral interview Edwyn Collins
After a banner year which saw the release of his eighth studio album, Understated, Edwyn Collins invites Kid Canaveral's David MacGregor and Kate Lazda to his London studio to muse on the festive season, independence, and how he could've ran the internet Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2013 (#1): Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus (ATP)
Benjamin Power and Andrew Hung’s third record saw them ascend to the very top of Space Mountain Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2013 (#2): Steve Mason – Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time (Double Six)
Across a year of austerity budgets, fracking controversies and seemingly endless state surveillance revelations, the anger and frustration that structures&nb... Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2013 (#3): Factory Floor – Factory Floor (DFA)
Combining industrial noise, stripped techno and disco and driving analogue synth-sounds in their incendiary live performances, this year Factory Floor nailed their first studio album. The band's Nik Void talks tactics Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 6 December
Spotify explains its new deal for artists; the science of Daft Punk's helmets; a live Nine Inch Nails concert; new music from LuckyMe, Nick Cave, Jon Hopkins, David Bowie, Factory Floor, Com Truise and Devendra Banhart, and much more Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
OpinionThe Albums of 2013 (#4): The National – Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
When his wife Joy Davidson died after three years of marriage, C.S. Lewis recorded his grief in a series of journals, published pseudonymously in the early 1... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013