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3 Jun 2010
Get your lighters out. Band of Horses are bringing their country-tinged rock to Bellahouston Park. Ryan Drever traces the path that brought them here. Upon forming in Seattle in 2004, Band Of Horses hit the ground running. After landing an early break…
15 Apr 2010
Good-time country rock ‘n’ roll from … uh, Kirkcaldy. The Wynntown Marshals are about as Scottish as Irn Bru and deep-fried Mars bars, but with glorious pedal steel and cowboy harmonies, you could be forgiven for thinking they were raised on root beer…
25 Jun 2009
With a combined musical history that takes in solo singer-songwriting, conventional indie-rock bands (The Common Redstarts, Parka) and alternative multi-instrumental squadron Orkestra Del Sol, the six-piece, Edinburgh and Glasgow-based Woodenbox with a…
31 Jul 2008
COUNTRY ROCK (Wichita) It’s been just over a year since he put out Cassadaga with Bright Eyes and Conor Oberst is at it again, conjuring up songs that sound like instant modern classics. This album (staggeringly the 18th of his career) finds the…
7 May 2007
COUNTRY ROCK With two ex-punks, one indie-boy and a drummer who plays in jazz bands at a tennis club, it was an obvious career move to form an alt.country band together. Not only that, but a really quite good one - the Glaswegian God-Fearing Atheists…
27 Mar 2007
COUNTRY ROCK Is there any band that says summer more than The Bees? I don’t know what they put in the water on the Isle of Wight, but this is one of the most breezy records you’re likely to hear. It should be given out at the gates of every summer…
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