Music and Issue 611

Midnight Juggernauts

Aussie trio hit the disco highway

21 Aug 2008

In the past few months, the globetrotting Midnight Juggernauts have toured with Bloc Party, been featured in stroppy lifestyle bible Vice and even cooked for Justice – friends in high places to be sure. While not the latest act to attempt to infuse rock…

Minotaur Shock - Amateur Dramatics

21 Aug 2008

There’s a pleasing, almost literary, conceit to this album. Bristol-based electronica artist Minotaur Shock – otherwise known as David Edwards – has given each downloadable track a pricing guideline corresponding to various criteria of his own choosing.

Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires

21 Aug 2008

This has been a while coming. With the recent flutter of cerebral pop acts with one eye firmly on the dancefloor, it was only a matter of time before the once-ubiquitous cowbell worked its way back into the mix – DFA would approve. This record bursts at…

Jubilee

21 Aug 2008

You can’t dispute the talent involved in Jubilee, featuring Aaron North (Nine Inch Nails/The Icarus Line) on vocals and guitar; Michael Shuman (Queens of the Stone Age/Wires on Fire) on bass and vocals and Jeff Lynn (Wires on Fire) guitar. However they…

The Raconteurs

21 Aug 2008

The seemingly spontaneous nature of the release of their frankly tremendous second album, Consolers of the Lonely, might suggest this quartet, the brainchild of Jack White and his long-time best bud Brendan Benson, were trading in off-the-cuff…

Five questions: Marco Bernardi

21 Aug 2008

Marco Bernardi is the mild-mannered janitor behind Octogen, the jewel in Soma Records’ electronic crown. He comes to Edinburgh as part of the Edge Festival’s Soma Records Night and submits to our probing with peculiar results 5 words to describe your…

Festival of British Youth Orchestras

21 Aug 2008

The last week and a bit of the Festival of British Youth Orchestras at the RSAMD involves mainly Scottish young musicians from both east and west. A huge range of music from film scores to some serious symphonies can be heard, as well as pieces…

Black Sun

21 Aug 2008

Dark doom from Glasgow deviants Black Sun. This is sludgy, rumbling metal that reverberates through your synapses like an earthquake. A crushing assault on the senses with a dose of post-hardcore and ambient of the blackest variety. Check out new album…

The Dodos

21 Aug 2008

San Francisco psych folkers The Dodos’ epic creations are even more impressive when you consider it’s just a duo (Meric Long and Logan Kroeber) producing these complex, free spirited and warming tumbledown tracks. Plus like-minded support from Gorky’s…