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Steve Mason - King Tut’s, Glasgow, Tue 9 Apr 2013
22 Apr 2013
Heady atmosphere evidence of deep personal and musical connection
The beered-up battalion swarming the venue are celebrating like a home game victory. Why wouldn’t they be on this Tuesday? (Insert obvious Thatcher comment here.) But it’s Mason’s danceable, wry mid-tempo indie that's the primary source of the crowd’s…
Lana Del Rey returns to 'second home' Glasgow as part of the Born to Die Tour
16 Apr 2013
The sepia-toned chanteuse is being supported by boyfriend Barrie-James O'Neill's band, Kassidy
Lana Del Rey’s ascension from all-but-unknown singer-songwriter ‘Lizzy Grant’ to the enormously successful, sepia-soaked sweetheart we know today has been quite remarkable. Coming to prominence in an age where ‘overnight sensation’ is a literal term…
Conquering Animal Sound - Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow, Fri 29 Mar 2013
16 Apr 2013
A late album launch from the divine bedroom experimenters turned revered live act
Kinning Park Complex doesn’t get enough recognition on account of its versatility and slightly tattered charm. As much the ideal setting for dance classes and community meetings as it is for grassroots punk shows, and intimate musical experiences off…
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…
Desaparecidos - The Arches, Glasgow, Sat 9 Feb 2013
19 Feb 2013
Solid performance from Conor Oberst's post-hardcore band, despite bad sound
Desaparecidos are arguably most famous for featuring fellow Nebraskan, Conor ‘Bright Eyes’ Oberst in their ranks. After only one album - 2002’s Read Music, Speak Spanish - and a short run of shows, Desaparecidos (Spanish for ‘disappeared ones’) soon…
New band Alarm Bells from ex-Dananananaykroyd members
15 Feb 2013
Vocalist John Baillie Jnr on the inner workings of this triumphant, ramshackle crew
Many audible gasps were heard when Glasgow’s Dananananaykroyd announced their shock split almost two years ago. But for anyone still crying into their favourite T-shirt, we bring you Alarm Bells -- a triumphant, ramshackle crew featuring Dananan alumni…
Mogwai - Les Revenants
15 Feb 2013
Haunting and fragile atmospheres on soundtrack to French zombie TV drama
(Rock Action) Soundtracks could quite easily be considered a single-purpose entity; something that is used primarily, if not exclusively, to support and capture the mood of a particular visual piece. However, it sometimes works out the other way…
Golden Grrrls - Golden Grrrls
13 Feb 2013
Album of concentrated fun and sunshine with 'best summer ever’ written all over it
(Night School) For decades now, Glasgow has been known for its capacity to produce great pop music. Not ‘pop’ in the vapid, trapped-in-the-digital-jaws-of-the-music-machine sense, but rather that which takes the form of intelligent, instantly…
Five reasons to go and see Dinosaur Jr on their 2013 European tour
23 Jan 2013
Seminal trio's UK tour kicks off at Arches, Glasgow
1 All three of them will actually be there this time. Sadly, Dino drummer Murph took ill the last time the band made it to Scotland and had to sit out of their show at Glasgow’s ABC. This time however, the beloved unholy trinity of noise will be live…
Animal Collective O2 ABC, Glasgow, Wed 7 Nov 2012
23 Nov 2012
The often unpredictable AnCo prove themselves hypeworthy, with a technicolour live show
After a frustrating headline performance at ATP last year, it was going to take an unprecedented effort to coax this writer onto the Animal Collective hype-wagon. But anything’s possible right? Having slowly but steadily won over fans and high-brow…
Tame Impala - Lonerism
8 Oct 2012
Uninspired take on 60s and 70s-inspired psych-rock
As far as retro copyists go, Tame Impala – aka Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker – is talented enough to convince some that he’s doing something courageous, inspired and important with the source materials but scrub a little harder and…
Bloc Party drummer Matt Tong talks to us ahead of their UK tour
13 Sep 2012
New album Four is 'the first time we’ve communicated what we wanted to achieve, with any record'
Bloc Party paved the way for resurgence in the popularity of simplistic, yet engaging rock music when they first emerged almost ten years ago. With their biting, post-punk aesthetic and potent hooks, the band enjoyed brief but major success with three…
Dan Deacon - America
21 Aug 2012
Entrancing collection with plenty of clout to keep you interested
Dan Deacon’s America is a scuzzy but inspired sonic postcard, every bit as warped and comfortable as the accompanying artwork. Opener ‘Guildford Avenue Bridge’ is a punishing barrage of loops and crunching percussion that eventually melts into a…
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
17 Aug 2012
Charming, messy and catchy album showcases band’s melodic prowess
(Play It Again Sam) With bassist Lou Barlow’s one-time rival unit Sebadoh wriggling back out of the woodwork and axemaster J Mascis embarking on further solo efforts, you could be forgiven for thinking that another Dinosaur Jr. album was pretty low down…
Noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells ready to shred Glasgow and Edinburgh venues on UK tour
12 Aug 2012
The pair return to the UK to promote latest album Reign of Terror
When describing New York duo, Sleigh Bells, some accurate adjectives might include: ‘weird’, ‘jarring’, ‘obnoxious’, but perhaps also ‘joyous’, ‘triumphant’ and ‘oddly beautiful’. It’s this juxtaposition that makes their collective sound hard to nail…
Feist, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Tue 27 Mar 2012
11 Apr 2012
Stunning concert from the Canadian alt.folkie
‘Wan, two, freee, fourr’, some gentleman gargles towards the end of Feist’s second encore. Without thinking, she laughs it off before ending on a heartbreakingly beautiful solo run of ‘Intuition’ from 2007’s The Reminder. It’s pin-drop silence…
Django Django - Django Django
27 Jan 2012
Dense and often surprising debut spitting up bursts of bold, spaced-out texture
(Because) Django Django’s debut has a lot of strings to its bow. It benefits from being the result of prolonged and measured tinkering by three Edinburgh art school grads over the space of a couple of years in a London bedroom. These efforts have…
Howler - America Give Up
27 Jan 2012
The kind of easily-digestible festival fodder that could hit the spot live, but is dull on record
(Rough Trade) You think we would all have learned by now that it is frankly unproductive to call anything the ‘new this’, the ‘next that’, or, god forbid, ‘the hottest thing you’ll hear all year’. Sadly, whether they’re aware of it or not, young US…
RM Hubbert launches album Thirteen Lost & Found with friends
6 Jan 2012
Aidan Moffat, Alex Kapranos and more to join in at Stereo show
RM Hubbert’s debut album First & Last was more than just an instrumental record by a talented Glaswegian guitarist. Far from a commercial stepping-stone, the record was rather the result of Hubbert’s attempts to document a tumultuous three-year period…
Kid Canaveral’s Christmas Baubles II - Summerhall, Edinburgh, Sat 17 Dec 2011
6 Jan 2012
Josie Long, eagleowl and more join in Kid Canaveral's annual shindig
The combination of cheap tins and 12 hours of live entertainment could be an endurance test in the wrong hands, but the second annual Fence Records/Kid Canaveral Chirstmas Baubles all-dayer doesn’t exactly feel like a chore. A joyous turn by Fence…
Chris Devotion and The Expectations – Amalgamation and Capital
6 Jan 2012
Worthwhile debut stumbles when it steps away from solid pop template
(Armellodie) Amalgamation and Capital is the debut from Glasgow’s Chris Devotion and the Expectations. Kicking off with ‘A Modest Refusal’, a punchy salute to 50s/60s pop, complete with textbook dum, dum-dum, tshh’s and whoah-ohs, this is an album…
Mazes - Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Thu 6 Oct 2011
19 Oct 2011
The garage pop foursome take a while to warm up, but worth the wait
Reduced from four to a trio tonight for undisclosed reasons, Mazes are welcomed with open arms, even if it takes them a little while to warm up. On first inspection, the band are a damn fine example of how to pen a charming pop song on the age-old…
PJ Harvey set for 2011 UK tour
24 Aug 2011
Dates include Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Since releasing her caustic debut, Dry, in 1992, PJ Harvey has been hailed as a powerfully emotive and dazzlingly uncompromising artist, equally capable of shaking your bones and getting stuck in your head. As ambitious as she is forward-thinking…
Meursault / Over The Wall / Capitals / Miaoux Miaoux
8 Aug 2011
King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Mon 25 Jul 2011
It's always exciting to find a new band that gets you going, you know, one that really does it for you. To have four of them on one bill is another kettle of fish entirely, one we at The List welcome with open arms on this leg of the second annual…
King Tut’s Summer Nights series of gigs
21 Jul 2011
Local heroes including Song of Return and Meursault line-up for Tut's fortnight-long season of gigs
‘Britain’s Best Small Venue’ – as voted last month by the NME but perhaps better known to Glasgow music-loving punters as plain old ‘King Tut’s’ – continues its successful run of seasonal live programmes with this month’s second annual ‘Summer Nights…
