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Self Esteem @ Stereo, Glasgow, 15 Mar
Pop music can be damn powerful. Anyone who’s danced to Robyn alone or ABBA in a crowded room knows this already. It takes skill to capture complex feel... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Mountain Man – Magic Ship
'I’m me, I’ve found it / But I was lost / I was bored by the thought of wanting more,' sings Molly Erin Sarlé in the opening breaths of Wi... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Bossy Love – Whiplash EP
After steadily building their fan base through slow-burning singles and strong festival appearances, Glasgow-based duo Bossy Love sound confident on their de... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Lizzie Reid on her debut EP, Cubicle
Glasgow singer-songwriter Lizzie Reid arrives with a fully-formed sound on her debut EP, Cubicle. It’s a warm and intimate collection of folk and rock ... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Tirzah – Colourgrade
Tirzah’s stark and minimal songs have an uncanny ability to conjure a world lurking just behind the curtain. What first sounds slight and standoffish b... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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Jockstrap – I Love You Jennifer B
Over a collection of EPs that have already earned cult status, Jockstrap combined vintage pop balladry with unhinged club experiments – and even the oc... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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King Krule @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 6 Oct
When Archy Marshall first broke through as Zoo Kid, he arrived with a fully-formed sound. His languid, angsty and otherworldly solo guitar songs made him a c... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Adult Jazz @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, 21 Oct
Adult Jazz are full of apologies tonight. It naturally follows on from their latest album, So Sorry So Slow, named after an eight-year gap between releases. ... Read more »| Updated 6 months ago -
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Anna Meredith @ Òran Mór, Glasgow, 8 Feb
“Every society has rituals to cope with life’s more painful realities,” says the Co-Star Astrology app for Libras. Today’s moon trans... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
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BEAK> @ QMU, Glasgow, 6 Dec
Magic happens when professional musicians use their immense technical ability to make very silly music. Paddy Steer is very talented. Not many people would b... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Field Music @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 17 Mar
Brothers Peter and David Brewis write with a consistency currently unparalleled in UK indie rock. They've produced seven intricately assembled studio albums ... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg
You’ve got tough competition to stand out as a British band with a deadpan spoken-word vocalist, a bad band name and the obligatory post-punk influence... Read more »| Updated about 4 years ago -
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Florist – Florist
'The home is a garden that I can’t keep alive', Emily Sprague sings on Dandelion – one of many apt gardening metaphors found on Florist albums. T... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
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bar italia – The Twits
bar italia are masters of homage. They embody the dissociated attitude of many a band from indie rock’s past. Their grit-flecked records could easily p... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Searching for SOPHIE
We don’t want to stop talking about SOPHIE. News of a posthumous album from the pioneering electronic artist revealed that before pressing play. How co... Read more »| Updated 8 months ago -
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Let's Eat Grandma @ Stereo, Glasgow, 4 Apr
If you're making oddball art, you've got to commit. The support tonight, dark synth-pop outfit Kelora aren't at that commital stage yet. They're we... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Electric Fields 2018: Preview
Electric Fields has grown organically over the last five years. What started as a grassroots idea for a one-day showcase of local artists has humbly blossome... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Kelly Lee Owens @ SWG3, Glasgow, 20 Nov
When Kelly Lee Owens released Inner Song in August 2020, we were far away from the explosive gig experience its songs could offer. At the time, the Welsh ele... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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Rex Orange County @ SWG3 Galvanizers Yard, Glasgow, 3 Aug
The mini-festival atmosphere at Galvanizers Yard is the ideal setting for the latest Rex Orange County tour. His stage is adorned with neon sunflowers, disco... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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SBTRKT – The Rat Road
SBTRKT’s now-iconic mask started as a way to put all focus on the music. With that anonymity, electronic producer Aaron Jerome could avoid any pre... Read more »| Updated about 2 years ago -
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Jlin – Akoma
Since her last full-length solo release, 2017's Black Origami, electronic producer Jlin has deepened her approach with leftfield collaborations and impressiv... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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KAYTRANADA – Timeless
Timeless is a funny title, even if it fits. Haitian-Canadian producer KAYTRANADA shaped the sound of the late 2010s with his signature drums and grooves. Eve... Read more »| Updated 11 months ago -
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Kelly Lee Owens on Dreamstate
When Kelly Lee Owens feels the call to make an album, she picks up a new notebook. The colour of this notebook is the first major decision made. Her fourth a... Read more »| Updated 7 months ago -
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Zoe Graham on songwriting, pop music & Wide Days
The first time we saw Zoe Graham perform was at a student magazine launch. You know, the kind of event where there's always some form of live acoustic backgr... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Sharing Makeup Brushes: On Coming Out as Bi and Femme
We never intended to become sickly high school sweethearts. It just sort of happened. I asked her out after her birthday party, where we’d spent all ni... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Mountain Man on reuniting for new album Magic Ship
Something special happens when the three individual voices in Mountain Man come together. It’s a cooling comfort that has remained just as reassuring a... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited
A decade ago, Meghan Remy used just a 4-track recorder and a microphone to self-produce a collection of caustic musical ruminations. These eerie, seemingly o... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Julia Jacklin @ Stereo, Glasgow, 2 Apr
Julia Jacklin is the kind of artist to laugh her set off as a bunch of depressing songs, seconds after making most in the room cry. She’s already done ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Skrillex, Fred Again.. and dance-pop as gateway and curse
Back in February, three DJs took over Madison Square Garden. When clips surfaced of Skrillex, Four Tet and Fred Again.. cheesing away, selecting tunes for a ... Read more »| Updated about 2 years ago -
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CMAT – Crazymad, For Me
On her debut, If My Wife New I’d Be Dead, CMAT found an instant sweet spot. She’s a funny lyricist, but the jokes don’t grow stale on repea... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago