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Fucked Up @ Cabaret Voltaire, 10 May
Not even a song into the night of hardcore punk overtures and Damian Abraham, Fucked Up’s bear-like frontman, starts roaming the crowd. But while 80s R... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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The Coathangers – Larceny & Old Lace
Taking its scuzz from late 60s proto-punk and the snarl from early 90s riot grrrls, The Coathangers offer a record of near-hits and some legendary misses. Le... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Ben Folds is a musician best described as ‘having his moments’. After three full-lengths with Ben Folds Five - each with hits outweighing misses ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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The Dodos - Visiter
To describe Visiter by The Dodos as folk rock is a bit of a misnomer, but it’s about the quickest, closest-to-centre punch to pull. They’ve also ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Land of Talk - Some are Lakes
Some are Lakes is basically a hipster's favourite album from the mid to late 90s - reanimated, cleaned-up and put to work for a new generation. The album's m... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Tennents line up James Murphy, No Age and many more to warm up 'Season One'
Making good on their promise for the integration of beer, democracy and music, Tennent's Mutual announced today a trio of warm up gigs set for the months of ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Chris Bradley @ Voodoo Rooms, 26 Jun
The story of Chris Bradley's set at the Voodoo Rooms - celebrating the launch of his debut album, Voices - is one best told in three acts. In the first, Bra... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Those Dancing Days - Run Run
Starting in with a keyboard riff reminiscent of a simpler Booker T. and the M.G.'s and a surf rock-esque guitar line, Run Run by Those Dancing Days throws th... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Crystal Castles - Vanished
It seemed the norm for a while that, in rock music, a band would release a few heavier hitting tracks as singles, then try to lure in doubters with a softer ... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Spinto Band - Moonwink
There’s twee, there’s psych-pop, and if they had a baby, it’d be Delaware’s The Spinto Band. They manage both seasick rhythms and fra... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Tricky - Knowle West Boy
Being a Tricky Kid must be exhausting. Having helped establish the trip-hop genre, inadvertantly or otherwise, the Knowle West Boy has since spent much of hi... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Primal Scream -Can't Go Back
Returning to the studio after 2006’s straight-forward rock ‘n’ roll disc Riot City Blues, veterans Primal Scream have made a departure from... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Faint - Fasciinatiion
The past three albums by Nebraskan uber-hipsters The Faint seemed to top each other successively by upping the ante of musical production whilst maintaining ... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Guns n' Roses - Better
Better... is better than nothing, anyway, which can be said for much of Chinese Democracy: most of the world’s happy enough the damn thing finally came... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
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The Black Keys @ Queen's Hall, 16 Nov
Bringing to a close a year that saw them release a white-hot collaboration with hip-hop hit-maker Danger Mouse, The Black Keys will bring their oil-stained g... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Arctic Monkeys To hit Select Scottish Cinemas Tomorrow
After conquering the charts and capturing the hearts of music-lovers nationwide, the next stop for the Arctic Monkeys will be your local cinema. For one nig... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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The Ghost of a Thousand - New Hopes, New Demonstrations
At a certain point, hardcore kids got sick of just mashing trap kits and chugga-chugga riffs. It seems Brighton-hailing The Ghost of a Thousand were some of ... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Cutaways - Earth and Earthly Things
Cardiff has Los Campesinos!, Glasgow has Dananananaykroyd, and now Belfast weighs in with their power-pop, equal-opportunity vocalled Cutaways. The two forme... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
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Eagleowl - Into the Fold EP
Moody and atmospheric, Eagleowl deliver a complex and weighty EP with Into the Fold. Bookended by the doleful title track and sombre but triumphant N... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come
“They say that the classics never go out of style. But they do – they do.” – Worms Of The Senses/Faculties Of The Skull With this s... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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The Gaslight Anthem @ O2 Academy Glasgow, 23 Jun
It's a balmy night in south Glasgow, the kind that conjures up thoughts of dive bars and rock joints - so, the setting for The Gaslight Anthem is damn near p... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
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The National @ O2 Academy, 26 Nov
Returning to the status of critical darlings without ever quite returning to the same well, The National have built a reputation of being one of the most sol... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Against Me! @ QMU, 27 Oct
While cleaning up their act considerably since first bellowing out Pints of Guinness Make You Strong, Floridian folk-punks Against Me! have incidenta... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Screaming Females – Castle Talk
The name Screaming Females is a bit of a misnomer for this tuneful indie rock outfit, as one might expect some riot grrrl fury once the needle hits the wax. ... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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Drive-By Truckers @ The Queen’s Hall, 9 May
Sadly, tonight begins on a sombre note with that news that support act Josh T Pearson has cancelled due to the passing of his father. Instead of the last cou... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
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Does It Offend You Yeah? - Dawn of the Dead
Every once in a while, life hands you little reminders that those old proverbs we hear so often aren't completely hackneyed. In the case of Dawn of the Dead... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty
Sometimes, you’ve got to give a little credit for trying. On Loyalty to Loyalty, Cold War Kids try to build on their soulful, everyman’s rock sty... Read more »| Updated about 11 years ago -
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Kris Drever, John McCusker, Roddy Woomble - Before the Ruin
At a time when the term 'folk' is a promiscuous lover, shacking up with rock, pop, jazz, etc., it's surprisingly refreshing to hear a straight-forward, no-mo... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
With the hype surrounding Black Kids’ acclaimed four-track demo, Wizard of Ahhhs, the expectations surrounding the Kids’ debut full-length Partie... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to Me
It may be a bit early in his career to describe Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner as having a Midas touch, but so far he’s done little to dispel such a... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago