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Nick Cave and Bad Seeds to tour UK in Autumn 2013
13 Feb 2013
The five date tour, promoting new album Push The Sky Away, will call in cities around the UK
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have announced a short but sweet five date UK tour for autumn, 2013. The band will be playing across October and November after a summer of festival appearances at California's Coachella and Primavera in Spain and…
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…
LadyFest Glasgow 2013 highlights female under-representation in music scene
15 Feb 2013
Highlights include Muscles of Joy, Hector Bizerk, Sacred Paws and Fiona Soe Paing
Electronic alchemist Fiona Soe Paing is singing the praises of LadyFest. The global DIY femme-pop hoopla was launched in Olympia, in 2000, supported by Sleater Kinney, The Gossip and 90s riot-grrrl trailblazers Bratmobile, and it returns to Glasgow this…
The Asphodells - Ruled by Passion Destroyed by Lust
14 Feb 2013
Andrew Weatherall project takes in electronica, guitar and acid house
(Rotters Golf Club) Given the ephemeral nature of dance music, remaining relevant after 25 years involvement without taking advantage of nostalgia for your former glories, may not be the easiest task. However, Andrew Weatherall seems to have…
Interview: Georg 'Goggi' Holm from Sigur Rós on departures, arrivals and getting heavy
19 Feb 2013
Could the soft, ethereal sounds of Reykjavik post-rock giants really be about to go aggres
Fans of Iceland's greatest post-rock outfit haven't had the easiest of times. 2010 saw the near disintegration of Sigur Rós as lead singer Jón Þór Birgisson embarked on his own very successful solo project as Jónsi, and other members took time off to be…
John C Reilly & Friends - St Andrew’s in the Square, Glasgow, Tue 12 Feb 2013
15 Feb 2013
Actor takes country band on the road as part of Wreck-It Ralph publicity tour
’We got the Death Star to work for us,’ laughs John C Reilly, actor, singer, raconteur and star of Disney offering Wreck-It Ralph, explaining the novel approach to around-the-world publicity junkets he managed to talk the megacorpration into. Instead…
Gallops - King Tut’s, Glasgow, Sun 10 Feb 2013
15 Feb 2013
Impressive barrage of booming, hardcore prog
Sundays are the graveyard shifts of a working week of live music. Make it a bitterly cold, dark Sunday in Glasgow, mid-February and you can understand the lack of attendance at the eerily spacious King Tut’s tonight. But much praise goes to the brave…
Scattered Melodies: Korean Kayagum Sanjo
15 Feb 2013
Remarkable and eerie music salvaged from 78 RPM discs from pre-war Korea
(Sublime Frequencies) How to describe this remarkable music, transmitted from pre-war Korea via the dusty crackle of vintage 78 RPM shellac discs? 'Invented' around 1890 by Kim Chang-jo, sanjo, meaning 'the scattering of melodies', is a major form…
The Group - Live
15 Feb 2013
Gloriously creative and soulful 1986 live recording from dream team of first generation free jazzers
(No Business) A dream team of first generation free jazzers (altoist Marion Brown, bassist Sirone and drummer Andrew Cyrille) and 1970s avant-gardists (violist Billy Bang, trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah and bassist Fred Hopkins), The Group left no studio…
Wayne Shorter Quartet - Without A Net
14 Feb 2013
Ingenious chamber jazz from 79-year-old saxophone legend
(Blue Note) Wayne Shorter's first album for Blue Note in 43 years is not quite the daredevil leap into freedom its title might suggest, but it does show the 79-year old saxophone legend in inquisitive form, leading his superb group through an artful…
NME Awards Tour 2013 - O2 Academy, Glasgow, Mon 11 Feb
19 Feb 2013
Django Django, Miles Kane, Palma Voilets and Peace head up the annual UK tour
People of Glasgow,’ whoops Vincent Neff, Django Django’s representative on earth today, ‘are you gonna come up with us?’ And we do, making a self-fulfilling prophecy of Neff's declaration early in the band's NME Awards Tour-headlining set that ‘Monday…
The Colin Currie Group: Steve Reich – Drumming
19 Feb 2013
The Proms percussion group will perform the composer's piece as part of Minimal: Reich in Glasgow
Billed recently by the New York Times as ‘our greatest living composer’, Steve Reich is one of the most influential composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. An artist who breaks down genre-specific music boundaries, Reich is the subject of Minimal…
Eat, sleep and breathe - Caitlin Rose
19 Feb 2013
The 25-year-old country singer shares her tour habits, including a weakness for tapas and crisps
What time is breakfast? Whenever Shep (tour manager) starts yelling at everyone. Gotta get to the lobby in time for that complimentary continental! Tea or coffee? Usually tea. Coffee makes me jittery. I don't deal well with a caffeine jolt…
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…
Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In
19 Feb 2013
The country singer's second album is a mix of Sexsmith-style bluesiness and Nu-Nashville by numbers
Does a name get any more C&W than Caitlin Rose? It’s tempting/lazy to view any young female Tennessee-based female singer as some kind of Swiftian monster, but Rose feels more like an authentic musician than a determined fame-hunter, having already got…
Raime (live), part of Sonic Cineplex - The Arches, Glasgow, Sat 16 Feb
18 Feb 2013
A solid and engaging sound from the London duo, with disappointing visuals
Armed with one of 2012’s starkest releases, Quarter Turns Over a Living Line released on the uber-slick record label Blackest Ever Black and performances at last year's Unsound festival and London's South Bank, this London duo's post-industrial…
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…
Salif Keita & Bwani Junction
15 Feb 2013
Celtic Connections, The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, Fri 1 Feb 2013
Is any genre safe from the beige hand of indie? There's the odd trace of Nigerian high-life and Soweto pop in Edinburgh support act Bwani Junction's guitar and vocal lines, but fundamentally this is stodgy indie, more Arctic Monkeys than Talking Heads…
Function - Incubation
14 Feb 2013
Expertly crafted exploration into the darker side of dance music
(Ostgut Ton) Sandwell District alumnus Dave Sumner, aka Function, goes on a solo odyssey, veering away from the techno stalwarts/defunct label with his debut foray into LP territory. Incubation sees him exploring his kinship with the darker side of…
Dur Dur Band - Volume 5
14 Feb 2013
Heady Arab-inflected melodies on gem of 1980s Somalian pop
(Awesome Tapes from Africa) Following last year's brilliant album from Ghana’s Bola, the redoubtable Awesome Tapes from Africa have uncovered this gem of 1980s Somalian pop. Recorded in 1987, Dur Dur Band's Volume 5 gives a tantalising flavour of…
Atoms for Peace - Amok
13 Feb 2013
Oblique Eraser-esque debut from supergroup featuring Thom Yorke, Flea and Nigel Godrich
(XL recordings) Don’t let the jaunty, almost flamenco-styled bassline which opens the light crackle of electronic pop and fizz of ‘Before Your Very Eyes’ wrong-foot you, because here comes the man at the controls to rain on your parade. ‘Look out at the…
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds in the Devil’s Time
13 Feb 2013
Politically-charged and slickly-produced album of conviction from ex-Beta Band lynchpin
(Double Six) There’s plenty to be written elsewhere about the sad lack of socially-conscious mainstream music being made, whether that’s because most artists just aren’t interested or have an understandable fear of offending someone who might buy…
Conquering Animal Sound - On Floating Bodies
13 Feb 2013
Duo's second album is full of daring and with gloriously rich palette
(Chemikal Underground) Glasgow-based Conquering Animal Sound’s mosaic aesthetic bristles with invention on this their second full-length effort. There are times here when the term, a cornucopia of sounds, seems like damning with faint praise; but…
Kid Canaveral - Now That You Are a Dancer
13 Feb 2013
Second album from promising indie-rock act on Fence Records
(Fence) Legend has it that Kid Canaveral almost expired in an amp inferno during the making of their excellent second LP, Now That You Are a Dancer. Said loudspeaker burst into flames as the Scottish alt-rock quartet recorded album closer, ‘A…
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…
