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Exposure: Alasdair Roberts

Exposure: Alasdair Roberts

4 Dec 2008

Although he’s been recording for over a decade under first the alias Appendix Out and now his own name, Alasdair Roberts’ rich blend of traditional song and avant-garde thinking still remains an undiscovered pleasure to many. The Glasgow-based musician…

Exposure: Copy Haho

Exposure: Copy Haho

3 Dec 2008

Lord Reith, founder of the BBC, was born in Stonehaven, and so was Robert William Thomson, inventor of the pneumatic tyre and the fountain pen. And Lewis Grassic Gibbon went to school in the town. These are some pretty impressive names, but we can’t see…

Exposure - Vivian Girls

Exposure - Vivian Girls

2 Dec 2008

Propelled into our lives on a wave of blog hysteria following a scuzzy masterpiece of a debut, Vivian Girls are possibly the most perfect outfit to come out of New York since The Strokes squeezed into those skinny jeans and stole our hearts all those…

Exposure: Unwed Sailor

Exposure: Unwed Sailor

1 Dec 2008

Avoiding easy categorisation since 1998, chameleonic American instrumental rock project Unwed Sailor – originally founded in Seattle, but since based everywhere from Chicago to Washington DC, Little Rock and Lawrence – have shared stages with Low…

Biffy Clyro to headline Rockness 2009, with festival stretching to three days

Biffy Clyro to headline Rockness 2009, with festival stretching to three days

28 Nov 2008

Scottish band Biffy Clyro have announced that they will be headlining the final day of RockNess 2009. The festival, which takes place in Dores on the eastern banks of Loch Ness, is set for June 12th, 13th and 14th in 2009, growing from two days to three…

Exposure - Ten Kens

Exposure - Ten Kens

28 Nov 2008

Proving that there’s so much more to Toronto’s new music scene than two hip-ly-hooded synth terrorists, here comes the brilliant Ten Kens; and with this lot, you really couldn’t get further from Crystal Castles if you tried. The beardy and speccy…

Musicians' guide: How to make it in the music industry

Musicians' guide: How to make it in the music industry

27 Nov 2008

Want to make it in music? Fancy yourself as The Next Big Thing? Claire Sawers and Malcolm Jack track down nine very different people currently working in the industry and quiz them on just what they do and how they do it In addition, for detailed…

Trade secrets

Trade secrets

27 Nov 2008

Five months before Margaret Thatcher’s landslide 1979 victory, and with Britain’s city streets still retaining the air of a depressed bombsite, highbrow arts programme The South Bank Show appeared to have been hi-jacked by a cell of musical terrorists.

Exposure - Those Dancing Days

Exposure - Those Dancing Days

27 Nov 2008

Many bad things have come from Led Zeppelin; a whole plethora of ill-advised haircuts, for example, ridiculously wanky guitar solos – oh, and far too tight trousers… But if it wasn’t for their track ‘Dancing Days’, we might not have this compelling…

Glasvegas - The Christmas Album

Glasvegas - The Christmas Album

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

SEASONAL ROCK Available via download or as part of repackaged re-release of their debut long player this isn’t quite the full on Christmas ‘album’ Glasvegas promised, but they have delivered six outstanding songs for the holiday season. And it…

Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy

Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy

(3 stars)27 Nov 2008

ROCK There were a few moments in the last 17 years that it felt like this album was likely to arrive after the dawning of actual Chinese democracy, there in rendering Axl Rose’s political musings, at best prophetic, and at worst ill-timed, such was…

Musicians' guide: Great music websites

27 Nov 2008

The List’s Daily Exposure. Nothing like kicking off with a bit of shameful self-promotion but The List recently launched an online initiative to showcase a different new band every day on our site. Read about the band, hear the band, watch a video, even…

Musicians' guide: Open mic nights

Musicians' guide: Open mic nights

27 Nov 2008

Mondays Glasgow Nice 'n' Sleazy 421 Sauchiehall St, 333 0900. 8pm. The Monday Acoustic Jam, 8pm–midnight. Free to all performers. Bring your instrument and join in the fun. Open Mic NIght - Pivo Pivo 15 Waterloo Street, 564 8100. 6pm.

Pitch perfect

Pitch perfect

27 Nov 2008

Pitching itself as the ‘Scottish Brits,’ the Tartan Clef Music Awards rocked into town last week in suitable glam style, setting out its stall with some of Scotland’s most celebrated acts and championing the great and good of the country’s music scene.

The Prodigy

The Prodigy

27 Nov 2008

ELECTRO ROCK Fierce – a horrific word for ‘cool’, that’s for sure, but totally accurate if you’re describing a new Prodigy album. When The List catches up with Liam Howlett in a New York hotel room, days before the completion of the long-awaited new…

The Stills

The Stills

27 Nov 2008

They’ve just finished touring the States with Kings of Leon and the Montreal rockers are bringing their poppy, 80s flavoured stadium anthems to our shores. Logic Will Break Your Heart was the album that brought them to prominence in 2004, but October’s…

Exposure: Winning Sperm Party

Exposure: Winning Sperm Party

26 Nov 2008

A bit of vaguely queasy speculation on Winning Sperm Party’s MySpace blog about the amount of semen a man produces in his life and the number of sperm contained therein deduces that ‘there was only a 1 in 544,000,000,000 chance of you being born’. So…

Exposure: Micachu

Exposure: Micachu

25 Nov 2008

It’s iPop, but not as we know it. 21-year-old Mica Levi (lives in East London, grew up ‘in a large mansion in Surrey’ – her words) makes glitching, Nu Ravesque electronica, is mates with Jack Penate and Toddla T, and wears the highlighter-pen ensemble…

Exposure: Lykke Li

Exposure: Lykke Li

24 Nov 2008

It’s hard to get past the fact that Lykke Li has been responsible for one of the most incessantly catchy songs of the year in ‘Little Bit’, a teasing slice of strangely romantic Scandi-pop weirdness which features the frankly intriguing couplet ‘And for…

Exposure: White Denim

Exposure: White Denim

21 Nov 2008

Austin, Texas’s bluesy, psychedelic garage trio White Denim released one of the true noisy gems of 2008 in their riotous, twisted, brilliant and totally beguiling debut album Workout Holiday. Singer and guitarist James Petralli talks turkey ahead of the…

Exposure: Alestorm

Exposure: Alestorm

20 Nov 2008

Excuse us while we sit down for a bit, because we’ve just had the shock of our lives. You might feel the same when you open up the MySpace page of four-piece Perth (Scotland, not Australia) rock outfit Alestorm, because nothing can quite prepare you for…

Guillemots: Picture House, Edinburgh, 13 November

Guillemots: Picture House, Edinburgh, 13 November

(2 stars)19 Nov 2008

You’d probably have a better chance of looking cool wearing a pair of bowling shoes in a supermarket than dancing at a Guillemots gig. Tight, skilled musicians they may be, party starters they are not. Their following evidently accept this, why then…

Exposure: Tokyoblu

Exposure: Tokyoblu

19 Nov 2008

Hail the Scottish Groove Armada! At least that’s how Edinburgh’s Tokyoblu style themselves, and it’s a comparison which most commentators seem happy to run with. Formed from their identically-named monthly club night – which has been held at the late…

Exposure: Youthmovies

Exposure: Youthmovies

18 Nov 2008

An Oxford-based quintet consisting of former Foals bandmember Andrew Mears and Al English (both of whom assume responsibility for guitar and vocals duties), as well as Stephen Hammond (bass), Graeme Murray (drums, vocals) and Sam Scott (trumpet…

Exposure: North Atlantic Oscillation

Exposure: North Atlantic Oscillation

17 Nov 2008

Further confirming that the laptop is the discerning musician’s instrument of choice, Glasgow/Edinburgh duo North Atlantic Oscillation deploy portable personal computers – alongside a phalanx of boring old things like guitars and basses and drums and…

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