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27 Mar 2008
Elbow’s recently released fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid, was met by a whole raft of effusive, praise-filled reviews which all fitted a familiar template. The underlying message across the board was essentially, ‘This band are unbelievably amazing…
Barry Adamson is making his pitch. The way the composer, crooner, ex-Magazine and Bad Seeds bassist and now big(ish) band leader tells it regarding his forthcoming eighth album, Back to the Cat, though, sounds like making movies. But then, the absorbed…
1 He’s the real McCoy (and then some) The son of Texan cotton-pickers and moonshine-runners, BJS arrived in Nashville on the back of a cantaloupe truck after spells as a farmhand, sailor, rodeo bum, and lumber mill worker (he lost two fingers to the…
Tomorrow’s music today. This issue: Midnight Juggernauts They’ve toured with Justice and Digitalism, and are already a well-known name in their native Melbourne. Yet now, with their debut album Dystopia due for a somewhat belated release on these…
INDIE Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Thu 27 Mar; Barfly, Glasgow, Sat 29 Mar Returning the conquering heroes from equipment trashing gigs at SXSW, Frightened Rabbit are playing a series of Scottish shows to mark the imminent release of their follow up…
JAZZ Strathclyde Suite, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Thu 3 Apr; Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Fri 4 Apr This concert marks a new venture in jazz promotion in Scotland. Singer Todd Gordon reckons he has spotted a gap in the current market for promotions at…
FOLK Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Thu 27 Mar; Tolbooth, Stirling, Fri 28 Mar; CCA, Glasgow, Thu 3 Apr ‘The band started about two-and-a-half years ago,’ says master fiddler Aidan O’Rourke. ‘Martin (Green), Kris (Drever) and I were hanging around…
New Scottish singer-songwriter sensation who has already cut her chops providing vocals for Runrig and counts Tom Waits, Jim Lauderdale and Shane McGowan among her fans. Here she performs the Scottish premiere of her own ‘Arbroath Suite’, which traces…
HIP HOP Carling Academy, Glasgow, Sat 29 Mar - RESCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY 20 APRIL ‘Change’ seems to be a popular word at the moment; politically, environmentally, it’s all about moving into something new. As always, you can rely on hip hop to reflect the…
NEW COMMISSION Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Thu 10 Apr; City Halls, Glasgow, Fri 11 Apr It’s not often that a new orchestral commission has its world premiere in Strathpeffer, but that is what happened in the case of Stuart MacRae’s Scottish Chamber…
Part of the new wave of British acts eating up the charts with their infectious take on indie pop, tracks like ‘She’s So Lovely’ and ‘Elvis Ain’t Dead’ are a distinctly jaunty take on the formula, imbued with shrewd lyrics and a knowing smile. And as…
METAL ABC, Glasgow, Tue 1 Apr System of a Down were a singular prospect in metal – intelligent, intricate and unique. Now vocalist Serj Tankian has released his first solo album, Elect the Dead, and, as you’d expect it’s as distinctive as his former…
Not many artists can escape the shadow of their former bands, especially a band as influential as The Pixies. But bassist Kim Deal’s Breeders were a fantastic band in their own right and have finally followed up 2002’s understated beauty Title TK with a…
ROCK Oran Mor, Glasgow, Mon 7 Apr For a legendary hellraiser, Mark Lanegan is surprisingly perky considering it’s early morning after a show in Amsterdam. I say ‘perky’, it’s all relative, he’s still monosyllabic, menacing, moody and terse. So how was…
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