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Fortified presents: Scientist vs The Upsetters
19 Nov 2010
‘Let me tell you man, reggae is the hardest music to engineer'
Capturing the sounds of the studio and helping to commit them to wax while preserving and, if possible, enhancing the essence of the performance, the studio engineer is a conduit between the art and physics of recording. In many respects the process is…
The National set for UK shows
16 Nov 2010
Five Reasons to go and see the epic melancholic quintet
1. They’re The National Baritone heart-throb Matt Berninger once remarked that his epic quintet doesn’t really have ‘casual fans’. This is something of an understatement. Obsessive responses to their melancholic rock tend to veer between adulation and…
Michael Gira reforms cult post punk outfit Swans for live dates
22 Oct 2010
Legendarily intense, abrasive band on UK tour
‘It’s a huge ordeal for me to undertake Swans again, but I had to remain true to myself, so I did it.’ Michael Gira, the only constant member of the legendarily intense, abrasive band, is speaking from a hot, cramped rehearsal space in Brooklyn’s…
Godspeed You! Black Emperor embark on UK and US tour
23 Nov 2010
Montreal post-rock collective back from hiatus for tour and All Tomorrow's Parties slot
When Montreal collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor played their second ever UK show in Edinburgh’s tiny Stills Gallery in November 1998, it was a suitably low-key setting for a fiercely private-minded group who, with the rise of pre-millennial…
Jenny and Johnny hit Glasgow and Edinburgh on UK tour
16 Nov 2010
Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice
‘Jenny and Johnny just looks good on a T-shirt,’ drawls Johnathan Rice in his lazy transatlantic way down the phone from the Laurel Canyon home that the Scots-American singer-songwriter shares with his romantic and musical partner Jenny Lewis, the…
Human Don’t Be Angry - guitar-based project from ex-Arab Strap mainman
21 Oct 2010
Malcolm Middleton's new project brings out his sensible side
‘I set out with three unbreakable rules,’ states alt.pop saviour Malcolm Middleton. He’s referring to his brand-new solo endeavour Human Don’t Be Angry. ‘Rule one: don’t do interviews. Rule two: act like you know what you’re doing. Rule three: no beer…
Exposure: S-Type
24 Nov 2010
Homegrown beat-maker launches EP at Mixed Bizness
Bobby Perman’s new single on Scottish label Phuturelabs isn’t his first, but it does signal a change of musical direction under his production alias S-Type. The Edinburgh-raised, Glasgow-based brother of Dougal (who runs Radio Magnetic, where Bobby…
Glasgow clubs Death Disco and Pressure hit 8th and 12th birthdays
19 Nov 2010
The Count & Sinden, Brodinski and Slam set for club birthday events
Take Glasgow’s most famous venue, two of its finest and most enduring nights, add a busload of excellent DJs and sing a big old chorus of ‘Happy Birthday’. The Arches’ Death Disco and Pressure both celebrate birthdays this fortnight, so we asked people…
St Andrew’s Day offers a programme of poetry, song and dance
19 Nov 2010
2010 National Day a far cry from mince and tatties, a malt and the latest Broons annual
Let’s face it. There is no way that St Andrew’s Day celebrations will ever, ever be cool, and no special guest appearances by Amy Macdonald or thon wee laddie fae West Lothian who won the X Factor are ever, ever going to change that. Processed that?
Doc Daneeka set for Edinburgh StepBack date
19 Nov 2010
UK funky and basement house DJ and producer
Name Doc Daneeka Also known as Mial Watkins is his real name. Occupation Producer and DJ of what many might call UK funky, but what he prefers to refer to as ‘basement house’. ‘Endorsed by Marcus Nasty, L-Vis 1990, Gilles Peterson, Kode9…
The Drums set for UK tour - interview
16 Nov 2010
Brooklyn outfit offer indie-pop escapism in a cynical musical landscape
‘Pop music is important,’ says The Drums’ frontman Jonathan Pierce. ‘Escape is vital and that is what we try to offer.’ In times relentlessly described as ‘hard’, seemingly blithe songs such as whistle-along ‘Let’s Go Surfing’ and the lemon-zinging…
Jagjaguwar's Small Black set for UK shows
16 Nov 2010
‘Despicable Dogs’ act expand to 4-piece - Josh Kolenik interview
Josh Kolenik has just finished lunch at Voodoo Doughnut in Portland, Oregon, where he and band Small Black are playing later that night. (‘They make these really amazing doughnuts with bacon on them’, he exhales.) In Kolenik’s head, there is a strong…
Gruff Rhys new solo album a collection of autobiographical piano ballads
16 Nov 2010
'Hotel Shampoo' a departure for Super Furry Animals singer
‘I don’t keep diaries,’ says Gruff Rhys, on the phone from his home in Cardiff, ‘but I’ve kept every bottle of free shampoo I’ve been given (in hotels) since I started to tour 15 years ago. I always wanted to build my own hotel out of all that free…
The Phantom Band take The Wants on UK tour
16 Nov 2010
Glasgow Krautrock/alt.folk splicers play Glasgow Oran Mor show
Glasgow Krautrock/alt.folk splicers The Phantom Band have arguably bettered their 2009 end of year lists-scaling debut Checkmate Savage with their sophomore set The Wants, which is among the most critically-acclaimed albums of 2010 according to review…
Caribou, Four Tet, James Holden, Nathan Fake and Rocketnumbernine tour UK
16 Nov 2010
Electronic/rock/dance quadruple header tours UK
Sonic and mathematical sage Dan Snaith is busy browsing a Slow Food market in Italy. ‘It’s great – I’m in Torino!’ he beams, while The List languishes in the Central Belt rain. ‘We had an awesome gig last night. Now we’re eating bourgeois…
Electro-hip hop insurgents Ratatat set for UK tour
16 Nov 2010
‘Mogwai taught us how to drink beer like a professional rock stars’
‘Mogwai taught us how to drink beer like a professional rock stars,’ says Ratatat’s synth‘n’bass extraordinaire Evan Mast. ‘We’d be lost without them.’ He speaks of a Japanese tour that united the rousing twain back in 2006: Mogwai the post-rock…
Flautist and vocalist Nuala Kennedy on UK tour
16 Nov 2010
Collaboration with Virginia singer AJ Roach
She’s worked with Will Oldham and Norman Blake: now ace flautist and vocalist Nuala Kennedy is collaborating with a bard from the Appalachian Mountains … Sorry? ‘I’ll be playing with my usual musical cohorts plus AJ Roach – a great singer from…
Gold Panda on UK tour to promote Lucky Shiner
2 Nov 2010
Essex producer follows the 'old-school hip hop rules'
He’s from London, but Essex was the making of Gold Panda. (His real name? ‘Just Derwin, if that’s all right.’) ‘I lived in Peckham until I was about 15, then my family moved to Chelmsford, where a cultural scene didn’t really exist,’ he says. ‘I found…
Canadian choral punk rabble Born Ruffians on UK tour
2 Nov 2010
Warp-signed polyrhythmic indie-rockers hit the road
'Our budget for the tour was not approved,’ mourns Luke Lalonde of party rock trio Born Ruffians. ‘So there will be no eighty-metre porcelain squid, no 35-member dance troupe, and the London Symphony Orchestra will not be opening. ‘Still, we’ll bring…
Esben and the Witch on UK headline tour
2 Nov 2010
Tour support CV lists The xx, School of Seven Bells and Wild Beasts
It’s a good time for purveyors of eerie malevolence, Esben and the Witch. They’ve just been nominated in the ‘Next Big Thing’ category at the Q Awards; their debut album Violet Cries is set for release early next year; and they’re currently enjoying a…
LA tropical punkers Abe Vigoda on UK tour in support of album Crush
2 Nov 2010
Alt rock 4-piece eschew angular punk for synth-enhanced, colder sound
LA tropical punkers Abe Vigoda are doing the rounds just now with their third album Crush. They’ve aimed at a colder, more synth-enhanced sound this time round (it’s a shift from the angular punk on their first album Kid City, and 2008’s rowdy-tropical…
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone on 'final' UK tour
1 Nov 2010
Chicago-based Owen Ashworth ready for a new project
On 5 December, 13 years ago, Chicago-based film school dropout Owen Ashworth played his first ever live show. He called himself Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, and his pulsing, lo-tech keyboard love songs and awkwardly touching mumblings have charmed…
London-based Veronica Falls on UK tour
1 Nov 2010
60s pop and Velvet Underground influences on current single Beachy Head
This London-based quartet are originally from Glasgow, and are playing some dates north of the border, where it all began. Having initially being pegged as harking back to the C86 era, Veronica Falls were keen to shed this ‘twee’ label, and prefer…
Club promoters Men & Machines end Stereo residency to explore new forms
27 Oct 2010
Respected Glasgow electronic music night changes format
Men & Machines is over, but this isn’t the end. After two and a half years of regular nights at Stereo, the M&M team of Ewan Dunnett and Alasdair Stewart will be giving up their bi-monthly residency status. ‘We’re slightly reluctant to call it a…
El Guincho on UK tour to promote Pop Negro
22 Oct 2010
Spanish musician likened to XL label-mate M.I.A., Animal Collective and Yeasayer
‘The naked girls weren’t my idea – honestly!’ So claims El Guincho, or Pablo Díaz-Reixa, the Spanish musician and tropicalia-lord behind ‘Bombay’. It’s a slice of steel drum laced, Spanish language, calypso-pop off his latest album Pop Negro. As can be…
