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The Black Box Revelation - Live at the AB EP
Storming in from Brussels - of all places - come The Black Box Revelation, delivering a four-track hit (three live, one studio) of blues revivalism glossed o... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Mystery Jets - Half in Love with Elizabeth
Hearing the intro to this track for the first time, the question: 'Dear God, what have I done to deserve this?' rush through the mind. But seriously, it gets... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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The Pigeon Detectives - Everybody Wants Me
In any situation, there’s an automatic fault in bemoaning your own good fortune. “Everybody wants me.” OK, what’s the problem? &ld... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Calexico - Two Silver Trees
Hailing from Tuscon, Arizona, and naming themselves after a California border town, Calexico has long had a distinctive Southwestern style. Still evincing a... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Conor Oberst - Souled Out!!!
If this record had a scent, it'd be pine or lemon - while perhaps not the number one aroma for many, a large cross-section of the populace can agree these tw... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Bear Hands - Golden EP
For those to whom the phrase ‘debut EP’ conjures up the notion of a tinny or fuzzy handful of half-baked songs, you’re sure to be disappoin... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Dance Lazarus Dance - Lies EP
The dance-punk umbrella seems to be ever-expanding, and the latest addition is Glasgow’s own Dance Lazurus Dance. With a playful façade – ... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Bombay Bicycle Club @ Barfly, 23 Oct
In an effort to equate cutting-edge music with, um, jeans, Levi’s has been picking up-and-coming bands to hit the road on their Ones to Watch tour. The... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Withered Hand: Beginning to flourish
As Dan Willson waits for this tardy interviewer in an Edinburgh city centre arts café, he leafs through a handmade zine on display near the front door... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
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Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand
Black Lips aren’t one of those bands afraid to wear their influences on their sleeve. The boys seem to get their kicks from fuzzed-out garage rock, slo... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
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Shred Yr Face 2 @ The Garage, 27 Feb
There's something special about hardcore; while the music might not be for everyone, the energy, the spirit and the message certainly should be. Enter: Shred... Read more »| Updated about 15 years ago -
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Black Lips @ ABC2, 17 Feb
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Fact - Fact
When music escapes the Far East, it’s generally remarkable in some way: Boris invigorated the sludge of stoner metal with Pink and bands like Pizzicato... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
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Pelican: Movement for Change
For any band involved in a progressive genre, the need to keep moving is an occupational necessity. But at the same time, shaking up the formula can make or ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Pelican - What We All Come to Need
What We All Come to Need could be construed as an assuming title. When ascribing the idea of necessity to one’s own project, one risks abject failure, ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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King Khan & BBQ Show - Invisible Girl
One can’t accuse King Khan or Mark Sultan (aka BBQ) of laziness: following their Almighty Defenders ‘supergroup’ LP, the pair fire off Invi... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Times New Viking @ Nice 'N' Sleazy, 17 Sep
The sound of Beach Boys classic Good Vibrations fills the air at Sleazy's preceding Times New Viking’s set tonight. Fitting, because once one pares aw... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Enfant Bastard – Master Dude EP
In some ways chiptune is like a Lamborghini Countach: fun, dizzying and nostalgic for 80s cool – but it's tough to think of either as a daily way to ge... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Minus the Bear @ Cabaret Voltaire, 31 Aug
The Bear is slow to emerge from hibernation this Tuesday night, but the high octane combo of My Time/Secret Country from the Seattle group's latest collectio... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Torche @ Stereo, 24 Nov
Torche are a conundrum. Like: Are they even metal? Coming into Glasgow's Stereo, the band's got a low end that could rattle fillings loose and a massive soun... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Forest Fundraiser @ Pilrig Church, 3 Dec
A group of promoters and musicians from across disparate areas of the Edinburgh music scene and beyond will converge this Friday (3 Dec) for a charity gig at... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
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Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
David Comes to Life is one tough nut to crack. A sprawling, 80-minute hardcore punk rock opera, its description alone makes it seem destined for disaster. An... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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Joe Lally – Why Should I Get Used To It
While bassist Joe Lally may not have been the most visible member of DC post-hardcore godfathers Fugazi, he's arguably been the most prolific since their ind... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
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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 almost 13 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 almost 13 years ago -
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The Raconteurs @ The Corn Exchange, 26 Aug
Given the group’s star power – fronted by Jack White and Brendan Benson – the Raconteurs could easily phone one in and still walk off to a ... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
After seeing this band perform, I came into this review with a bit of bias: The band takes the stage in matching vintage-store garb (think the look of Sufjan... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong
Bands with funny sounding names usually only ever descend into a narcissistic shambles, or they work that wee bit harder to prove their mettle. One need only... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Lucertulas - Tragol de Rova
“Yes, more please,” are the thoughts that come to mind in hearing Roulette, the punchy and crunchy opener to Tragol de Rova. Like much of the rec... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Noah and the Whale @ Fat Sam's, 24 Oct
Judging them on a purely cosmetic level, one could make the mistake of thinking Noah and the Whale had somehow crossed into the third dimension from a classi... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago