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Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
24 May 2013
A track by track breakdown of the heavily hyped, mixed-bag of a disco-synth album
It’s the most anticipated album of the year, but it’s only partly been worth the wait. While Tron-helmeted duo Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s commitment to using real live musicians and an eclectic pool of guests to recreate the…
Scottish festivals 2013 - An A-Z of the best summer festivals
17 May 2013
The best festivals of music, film, food, cycling and more taking place in Scotland 2013
When it comes to festivals, Scotland really doesn’t hold back. From Orkney to Byres Road, muddy fields to stately homes, the growing number of them cater to all tastes, styles and budgets. Our A-Z guide profiles Scotland’s best summer jamborees, the…
Young Fathers - Tape Two
15 May 2013
Textured and intriguing album from Edinburgh hip hop group who have come of age at last
(Anticon) As if their breakthrough release of Tape One earlier this year on groundbreaking Los Angeles intelligent hip hop label Anticon wasn’t vindication enough of the promise that Edinburgh trio Young Fathers have been putting in the bank for…
The best European music festivals you've never heard of
17 May 2013
Featuring Electric Elephant, Unsound, Oya and Sunsplash
1 All Tomorrow’s Parties Iceland Sadly coming to an end in the UK, hipster holiday camp hideaway ATP is once more branching out overseas, starting with this weekender on an ex-NATO air base starring Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Fall, Deerhoof and…
Neil Young: Journeys
16 May 2013
An intimate homecoming documentary by the country rock legend, shot by Jonathan Demme
‘This is a town in North Ontario,’ are the first interview words uttered by Neil Young in this Jonathan Demme-directed documentary, and it’s probable that he’s consciously referencing the lyric of his own song ‘Helpless’. In the opening few minutes of…
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
14 Mar 2013
98-minutes of new music from Swedish pioneers is a mighty piece of work
(Rabid) Dear God, where to start? How about with congratulations, not just for taking their time to get it right and unleashing a 98-minute double CD/triple vinyl monster upon us seven years after Silent Shout’s breakthrough success, but for…
Optimo: The Underground Sound of Glasgow
15 May 2013
Tracks from Golden Teacher, Auntie Flo and Debukas feature on mix compilation showcasing the city
(Glasgow Underground) The mouth waters and the ears tingle at the thought of this, the first in a series of compilations showcasing the sound of a city by someone who knows it well. The producers have chosen well here, for they could have no more…
Exposure: Haim set for 2013 UK tour dates
15 May 2013
Sweet, yearning, retro pop melodies from sister-heavy band
When Haim look towards their future, do they see anything between themselves and a torrent of riches and acclaim? We’ve checked, and we can detect nothing. Were we to be unimaginative, in fact, we’d say they have all the retroisms to one day go on to be…
Wet Sounds - Glasgow event combines swimming and music
10 May 2013
Float in a pool listening to sounds by Joel Cahen and La Horrox
It’s the most listening fun you can have without electrocuting yourself. You get in the pool. You listen to music either in the water, out of the water or somewhere in between, floating on the surface. There are speakers submerged below you and in the…
King Creosote - Oran Mor, Glasgow, Wed 10 Apr 2013
23 Apr 2013
Fence Records stalwart's bittersweet railing over declining physical music sales
Following on from his low-key appearance on the fringes of Fence’s Gnomegame festival in Anstruther the weekend before, Kenny Anderson was playing the second date of a monstrous month-long UK solo tour here, the first coming the day before in Shetland.
Casual Sex - Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, Glasgow, Fri 5 Apr 2013
22 Apr 2013
Upcoming post-punk 4-piece stand out a mile in Glasgow's healthy band scene
The idea that Casual Sex are successors to Franz Ferdinand’s mantle as post-punk overlords of Glasgow has already been floated. But this lot are in a parallel universe of their own. To watch them is to be aware that something special’s undoubtedly on…
Interview: Todd Edwards set for Electric Frog Easter Weekender 2013
19 Mar 2013
Line-up features Simian Mobile Disco, Andrew Weatherall, Todd Terje and Pan-Pot
Easter and resurrections go together, in which case Glasgow’s finest serious clubber’s weekender has chosen the right time to stage a comeback. Just when it looked like the two-day Electric Frog event as was had given up the ghost in the face of…
French producer Vitalic takes live band on road for UK tour
19 Mar 2013
Latest album Rave Age fuses disco with rock
In the near two decades since he started making and playing music, Pascal Arbez has managed to surf the waves of taste without being trapped in the hole of typecasting to any particular scene or genre. Discovered by Michael Amato, aka The Hacker, and…
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…
Toro Y Moi set for 2013 UK tour with third album Anything in Return
15 May 2013
South Carolina's Toro Y Moi on his musical influences and latest album Anything in Return
‘I want to make music that people should hear, not what they want to hear,’ says Chazwick ‘Chaz’ Bundick, the South Carolina native who records a selection of boundary-pressing intelligent dance tracks under the alias Toro Y Moi, amongst many others.
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
15 May 2013
A great sixth record, but not one which parades the fact before you
(4AD) The idea that much of the music here was written by guitarist Aaron Desner while bedevilled by bone-aching fatigue and sleepless nights following the birth of his baby daughter is a compelling one. It ties into the sense of a band shattered…
Stag and Dagger: Glasgow's city festival prepares for fifth edition
15 May 2013
One-ticket-admits-all festival to feature exciting acts from all genres
It’s uncertain whether anyone remembers the ‘Sauchiehall Crawl’ event of a few years back, which attempted to do for Glasgow’s busiest late night thoroughfare what the Camden Crawl in London was doing. Well, despite being ill-remembered in the face of…
William Tyler & Hiss Golden Messenger - Summerhall, Edinburgh, Sat 4 May
15 May 2013
Songs setting a dense emotional mood and strong sense of place
Despite the setting in a cool, dark, wood-panelled lecture theatre, sometime Silver Jews and Lambchop guitarist William Tyler and Hiss Golden Messenger songwriter and fulcrum Michael ‘MT’ Taylor brought a certain sense of the pastoral with them for this…
Container, Dalhous and The Orpheus Choir set for Glasgow club night Collapse
17 Apr 2013
Off-beam US techno producer Container makes loud, rhythmic techno
How plans to bring off-beam US techno producer Container to the UK transformed into a cutting edge electronica night
Fence Gnomegame - Town Hall, Anstruther, Sat 6 & Sun 7 Apr 2013
16 Apr 2013
The Pictish Trail, eagleowl and Golden Teacher all play the micro-festival in Fife
’I know some of you are excited about this next band because we've already sold out of their records,’ declared Pictish Trail Johnny Lynch in advance of eagleowl’s Saturday afternoon set, whichpremiered material from their new album *3this silent…
Five reasons to head to Electric Circus' Big Day In
16 Apr 2013
Dutch Uncles, Discopolis, Dems, Jonnie Common and more head up the indoor mini-festival
1. It’s in, not out Worried about the shameful 'spring' weather we’ve been having? Wishing you could get away from it with some antipodean (autumn) sunshine and a bunch of bands in a field? Well, tough. But if you couldn’t afford the flight to Oz and…
Extreme hip hop/noise posse Death Grips coming to UK
16 Apr 2013
MC Ride, Zach Hill and Andy Morin set to play London, Glasgow and Brighton
After their recent South by Southwest showcase set, Death Grips’ live show was memorably described by SPIN magazine as a journey into ‘chaotically thrilling what-the-fuckness’. All 33 minutes of it are available to watch below, featuring fearsome…
Exposure: Glasgow act Golden Teacher take their live dance music to club nights
18 Mar 2013
Bells From the Deep End EP out on Optimo Music
Another winner has emerged from the Optimo Music stables, with the sleazy Dinosaur L-isms of Glasgow’s Golden Teacher. One of the greatest things to have hit the city’s dancefloors in memory, the ad hoc assembly are a collaboration between members of…
My Bloody Valentine UK tour 2013
25 Feb 2013
Shoegaze legends release first album in 22 years
The unexpected surprise comeback is a devalued currency in music these days, what with The Stone Roses and David Bowie having crossed the rubicon and The Smiths’ return feeling more like an inevitability waiting to happen. In which case the stealth…
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…
