Music, Issue 575

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9 May 2007

Knockengorroch, famous for its folk roots line-up and grass roots ambience, presents a double bill of festivals in 2007; The World Ceilidh from Fri 18-Sun 20 May, featuring Transglobal Underground with special guest Natacha Atlas, Mr Scruff…

Travis

8 May 2007

New album The Boy With No Name is more of a grower than your other ones. Have you had time to go back, reflect on it and enjoy it? Fran Healy We’re beginning to get a bit of distance from it so you get an idea of what it’s about. Dougie Payne…

Hitlist - The best rock, pop, jazz & folk

8 May 2007

Patti Smith More than 30 years after her debut ‘Piss Factory’ helped ignite the flames of punk, Smith is older, wiser but her passion live remains unabated. The intimate poetry shindig she hosted last year was just a taster for this, a full band show.

Scottish Opera: Lucia Di Lammermoor

7 May 2007

OPERA They have been described as wild, cheerless and bleak, but it is the landscape of the Lammermuirs, these low, rolling hills that characterize the area bounded by the Berwickshire coast, that provide the setting for Sir Walter Scott’s gothic…

Also Released

7 May 2007

James Yorkston Roaring the Gospel A compilation album of off-cuts, outtakes, covers and traditionals that are of a quality that most artists would have as singles, not in their archive. (Domino) Seefeel Quique Welcome reissue of the drifting…

Singles & Downloads

Singles & Downloads

7 May 2007

(Picture: Asobi Seksu) Yob poseurs the Kaiser Chiefs turn soothsayer this fortnight with ‘Everything is Average Nowadays’ (B-Unique, 3 Stars) forecasting a slew of unoriginality in singledom. They have, however, stepped it up from the workaday…

Wilco

Album

7 May 2007

ROCK With their last two albums Wilco rewrote the book on what rock bands could do, so where next? The answer is they’ve reined in the experimentalism a tad and are indulging in exquisitely crafted, plaintive country-soul which manages to be…

Young Gods

Album

7 May 2007

ELECTRONIC ROCK The hassle with being pioneers - which this Swiss trio are, having invented the kind of theatrical but mechanical electro rock parents and families that are just taken for granted nowadays - is that you rarely get the credit you…

God-Fearing Atheists

Album

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…

Julie Fowlis

Album

7 May 2007

FOLK Ever since she won the prestigious New Horizon award for 2006 at the BBC Folk Awards, Julie Fowlis has been landed with the unenviable expectation that she might succeed in taking Gaelic singing to a wider audience than it currently reaches…

The Twilight Sad

Album

7 May 2007

INDIE Rarely can a band have managed to sum themselves up so well just within their own name. Glasgow’s Twilight Sad are, let’s not beat about the bush, a band who make sad music - yet it’s that particular Scottish sadness which finds itself couched…

The Cinematic Orchestra

Album

7 May 2007

SOUL JAZZ Orchestra leader Jason Swinscoe’s genius is his lightness of touch. Rather than labouring the point with the same hooks, his music ebbs and flows like music has a simple plaintive beauty that is too often forgotten in an attempts to…

Butcher Boy

Album

7 May 2007

INDIE You won’t read about them in hype-hungry magazines or find them bombarding Myspace profiles with friend requests, and as a result Butcher Boy may well be one of the most exciting discoveries you’ll make this year. This debut album from the…

Kenny Werner

Album

7 May 2007

JAZZ Pianist Kenny Werner forsakes the comfort and familiarity of his customary trio setting for a more ambitious conceptual approach to his music on this recording, his first for Blue Note. A row of lawn chairs upturned by the wind near his home…

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Album

7 May 2007

ROCK You know what you’re getting when it comes to BRMC. Straight ahead, no frills rock’n’roll delivered with a degree of calculated nonchalance. Loops, samples or a ten-minute long jazz jam are not concepts these guys are familiar with. But…

Nasty P

Album

7 May 2007

HIP HOP REVISITED Love or loathe them, it looks like the blend trend that combusted spontaneously in both indie and hip hop scenes two or three years ago is set to burn on unabated. Here, Edinburgh’s own Nasty P casts in his own tuppence worth. The…

Led Bib

Album

7 May 2007

JAZZ Another burst of rock-influenced musical mayhem from the experimental fringes of the London jazz scene. Led Bib are probably not for jazz purists - their energised, in-your-face music explores the kind of edgy, raucous musical direction…

Von Sudenfed

7 May 2007

INDIE ELECTRONICA This first-time collaboration between The Fall’s mouthy frontman, Mark E Smith and German electronic maestros, Mouse on Mars sounds like the imaginary soundtrack to an after-party for the 1990s. Andi Toma and Jan St Werner do a good…

Orkestra Del Sol

7 May 2007

WORLD They say this was the launch of Orkestra Del Sol’s new EP The Road to Thermosa, but copies of it were being dished out free at the front door to anyone who did a silly dance for the staff. It was that kind of a night, and one suspects the EP…

Stopstarts, LR Rockets, Kid Canaveral

7 May 2007

(Picture: Stopstarts) First rule of gigging: make sure your guests don’t steal the show. Kid Cananveral are in danger of doing just this. It’s amazing how even their brand new pop-punk songs embed themselves in the brain, while single ‘Smash Hits…

Duloks

COMEDY POP

7 May 2007

Having almost been driven to throw himself out of a moving vehicle by all girl London trio the Duloks prior to this gig (long story), it’s your List correspondent’s duty to inform you that the band do come with a health warning. They’re crude. They’re…

The Be Be See

7 May 2007

INDIE POP

The Wombats

The Wombats

7 May 2007

Exposure

Emma Pollock

7 May 2007

INDIE

1990s

7 May 2007

INDIE