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Ghost, Gojira and The Defiled - O2 Academy, Glasgow, Tue 19 Mar, 2013
28 Mar 2013
Thundering triple bill of industrial, thrash prog and classic metal
It’s easy to be cynical about sponsored gigs, but Jägermeister have nailed their colours to the mast: they love and support metal. And when they are providing line-ups this solid at just £5 in, you can forget all the corporate bullshit and admit it’s…
New announcements for RockNess 2013 include Lianne la Havas, Rolando and Kerri Chandler
28 Mar 2013
Reverend & The Makers, Dog is Dead, Henrik Schwarz and more join the line up
The latest additions to 2013’s RockNess festival include soul singer Lianne la Havas; upbeat indie poppers Dog is Dead; Sheffield’s Reverend & The Makers fronted by the outspoken Jon McClure; Detroit techno master Rolando (Underground Resistance/Soma…
Ulrich Schnauss - Electric Circus, Edinburgh, Sun 17 Mar 2013
26 Mar 2013
A panoramic and emotionally driven electronica set from the ambient techno artist
The first time Ulrich Schnauss appeared in Edinburgh, back on Easter Sunday, in 2008 at the Voodoo Rooms, there wasn't a still body in the room, such was the infectiousness of Schnauss' laptop-generated electronica that has since defined a mashed-up…
Saint Vitus - The Cathouse, Glasgow, Thu 14 Mar 2013
25 Mar 2013
First Scottish date for the LA doom metal band is immaculately executed
LA doom metallers Saint Vitus never really got the dues they deserved throughout their various incarnations over the last few decades. Despite their ties to the legendary 80s SST label during the height of Black Flag’s fame and countless name checking…
Interview: Edwyn Collins - 'I'm only a little famous. I move through life unmolested'
22 Mar 2013
The former Orange Juice frontman talks dignity, Donovan and being drop dead gorgeous
First record you ever bought ‘Jennifer Juniper’ by Donovan. Last extravagant purchase you made A 1958 Gretsch Anniversary guitar, laden with what we in the trade call ‘case candy’. All its original tags, paperwork, polishing cloth, etc. First…
Rita Ora and Frank Ocean join T in the Park 2013 line-up
22 Mar 2013
Additions include Frank Ocean, Rita Ora, Tyler, The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt
Rita Ora and Odd Future rappers Frank Ocean, Tyler, The Creator and Earl Sweatshirt are among the latest acts announced to perform at T in the Park. Bringing a decidedly hip hop flavour to this year’s festival at Balado, Kinross over the weekend of…
Eels, O2 Academy, Glasgow, Tue 19 Mar 2013
20 Mar 2013
Mark Oliver Everett and co deliver a wandering set that doesn't do tribute to their back catalogue
Eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett, or 'E' as he’s affectionately known, is often viewed as a complex character, delicately wearing heart on proverbial sleeve while providing an insight into his ponderous psyche, which is peppered with love, loss and…
Recent documentaries Sound City and Side by Side examine analogue vs digital debate
19 Mar 2013
Films from Dave Grohl and Keanu Reeves are actually about a lot more than music and film technology
Produced and presented by Keanu Reeves, Side By Side provides insight into the attitudes held towards digital technology by some of the most significant figures working in film today. Similarly, the Dave Grohl-directed Sound City, which takes the form…
Interview: Todd Edwards set for Electric Frog Easter Weekender 2013
19 Mar 2013
Line-up features Simian Mobile Disco, Andrew Weatherall, Todd Terje and Pan-Pot
Easter and resurrections go together, in which case Glasgow’s finest serious clubber’s weekender has chosen the right time to stage a comeback. Just when it looked like the two-day Electric Frog event as was had given up the ghost in the face of…
French producer Vitalic takes live band on road for UK tour
19 Mar 2013
Latest album Rave Age fuses disco with rock
In the near two decades since he started making and playing music, Pascal Arbez has managed to surf the waves of taste without being trapped in the hole of typecasting to any particular scene or genre. Discovered by Michael Amato, aka The Hacker, and…
Singles and downloads - March 2013
19 Mar 2013
New music from Fat Goth, Holy Esque, Rungs and Woodpigeon
Woodpigeon - Red Rover, Red Rover (Fierce Panda) ●●● The lead single from Woodpigeon’s recent album Thumbtacks + Glue, is about as sweet and soothing as anything else to emanate from Mark Andrew Hamilton’s Calgary crew to date. Admittedly, it takes a…
Glasgow experimental music festival Counterflows set for 2013 outing
18 Mar 2013
Highlights of second edition include Peter Brötzmann, Loren Connors and Jandek
Now in its second year, Counterflows channels vital currents in experimental music and art into a world class three-day festival. This year, there’s a particular focus on mixed-media performance. Saturday sees the CCA reverberate to the intense drones…
New Scottish Opera production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman
18 Mar 2013
Opera relocated to Wagner's origianllocation of Scotland’s North East
If he hadn’t had such a keen eye for nifty marketing, Richard Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman could have put Scotland as firmly on the geographic opera map as Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Both operas date from 1839, a time when Gothic…
Stage production of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong tours UK
18 Mar 2013
Rachel Wagstaff’s stage adaptation of celebrated novel
It’s twenty years since the release of Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks’ most celebrated novel. Now, the Original Theatre Company have revived playwright Rachel Wagstaff’s stage adaptation of the book, though it’s been substantially restructured from its 2010…
Exposure: Glasgow act Golden Teacher take their live dance music to club nights
18 Mar 2013
Bells From the Deep End EP out on Optimo Music
Another winner has emerged from the Optimo Music stables, with the sleazy Dinosaur L-isms of Glasgow’s Golden Teacher. One of the greatest things to have hit the city’s dancefloors in memory, the ad hoc assembly are a collaboration between members of…
Biffy Clyro set for 2013 UK tour and festival shows at Reading and Leeds
18 Mar 2013
Ayrshire trio step up to the plate as festival act
Scotland’s top rockers prepare to storm the festival scene Words: Biffy Clyro are arguably the biggest rock band in Scotland. 2007’s Puzzle was the moment Biffy went ‘mainstream’, while Only Revolutions (2009) was the Ayrshire trio honing their…
Foals - Barrowland, Glasgow, Tue 5 Mar 2013
18 Mar 2013
Band limber up for festival summer which could prove the making of them
Over the next horizon may lie arenas for Foals, and tonight they look like they well know it. Their epic entrance – members filtering on one by one, silhouetted against turquoise-tinted strobe lights as a bass drone rumbles, to progressively raise up…
Nina Nesbitt, Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh, Sat 16 Mar 2013
18 Mar 2013
A homecoming gig for the teen popper from Balerno
The crowd in the Liquid Rooms are chanting Nina Nesbitt’s name as she comes onto the stage, guitar in hand. No introductions are needed tonight - the 18-year-old, candyfloss haired Scottish / Swedish singer-songwriter is playing to her hometown audience…
Minimal: Steve Reich in Glasgow - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Sat 8 Mar 2013
18 Mar 2013
Programme includes Radio Rewrite and older pieces mixes beauty with technical
This celebration of a modern icon doesn’t start well, with an IT failure causing a sizeable delay, during which the crowd perform a spontaneous, good-natured crowd version of Reich’s ‘Clapping Music’. Once things get going, the first…
Jonnie Common, River of Slime and Shift-Static - Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh, Sat 9 Mar 2013
18 Mar 2013
Mixed bag from Song, By Toad Bad Fun night
Tonight’s edition of Edinburgh indie label Song, By Toad’s BAD FUN series serves as a showcase for the world of current alt.electronica. First up, Shift-Static do a nice line in off-kilter electro-pop, melodic yet unafraid of some forays into…
Interview: Ira Kaplan - Yo La Tengo set for new album and UK tour
15 Mar 2013
On keping things fresh and working with John McEntire of Tortoise on new album Fade
‘We don’t get too deep into comparing experiences,’ muses Ira Kaplan. ‘We just want to make things as exciting as they can be in the moment and it will all take care of itself.’ The Yo La Tengo frontman knows a thing or two about staying power, having…
Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
15 Mar 2013
Enjoy the vast scenery, just don’t expect many landmarks
(Matador) Strangely enough for an album distinctly unconcerned with immediacy, the strengths and weaknesses of Wakin On A Pretty Daze are encapsulated within its opener, ‘Wakin On A Pretty Day’. A lazy, bucolic, summer haze-conceived mid-tempo strum…
Purling Hiss - Water On Mars
15 Mar 2013
Polished up tunes of second album are still caked in good-ol’ low-down dirty fuzz
(Drag City) After several years floating around Philadelphia in the same trashy, lo-fi puddle as fellow longhairs Kurt Vile and The War On Drugs, Mike Polizze – for Purling Hiss (toiletal pun ahoy) is essentially he – has polished up his act some…
The Weeknd set for UK tour
15 Mar 2013
Soulfully-voiced Toronto Canadian eschews rap's chiches
All the familiar tropes of hip-hop’s seedy side – narcotics, booze, girls very much in the plural – lurk in the shadows of The Weeknd’s spacey, chilly synthscapes, as nights typically become day and then night again. But if there’s a marked contrast…
RockNess 2013 comedy line-up announced
15 Mar 2013
Dylan Moran, Jim Jeffries and Daniel Sloss lead this year’s stand-up bill at Scottish music festival
Following 2012’s year’s killer set from Tim Minchin, music festival RockNess once more prove their commitment to laughs as well as dance beats. Foul mouthed comic Jim Jeffries will be reaching out over the taste barrier with his only Scottish appearance…
