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Found Magazine

Found Magazine

2 Oct 2008

We’re a curious bunch us humans. We seem compelled to concern ourselves with the business of others, be it people-watching in bars or gazing into strangers’ front rooms. Now, there is a quiet phenomenon coming to our shores from America, offering a…

Roots Manuva

Roots Manuva

2 Oct 2008

The likes of Dizzee Rascal and Mike Skinner might have higher profiles but there’s only one true king of British rap music and that’s Roots Manuva. London-based Rodney Smith has continued to amaze and delight with his idiosyncratic and original take on…

Bodies Of Water

Bodies Of Water

2 Oct 2008

INDIE It slipped by largely unnoticed, but in second offering A Certain Feeling, released in July, Bodies Of Water calmly and quietly came up with one of this year’s most beguiling records. Consisting of a husband and wife duo plus various family…

Exposure - Ladyhawke

Exposure - Ladyhawke

2 Oct 2008

No relation to the Vancouver indie rock band of the same name, but absolutely related to (i.e. named after) the corny 80s sci-fi film which starred Matthew Broderick and Rutger Hauer, Ladyhawke is the finest recording artiste to come out of New Zealand…

James Pants

James Pants

2 Oct 2008

ELECTRO Now if you reckoned Arctic Monkeys was a ridiculous moniker, try James Pants for size. Being named after an undergarment, however, hasn’t stopped critics and bloggers falling over each other to heap shed-loads of praise on this smart…

White Lies

White Lies

2 Oct 2008

INDIE ROCK No money, nights drawing in, a new Kaiser Chiefs record on the way … There’s a lot of stuff to sob about these days, and while you’re at it you’d better add White Lies to the list. When the brooding Bunnymen-esque West London trio…

5 Reasons To Go See - Dave Arcari

5 Reasons To Go See - Dave Arcari

2 Oct 2008

1 He’s a rockabilly punk trash country delta blues maniac. From Scotland Arcari is a one-man musical whirlwind, thrashing his metal-bodied National acoustic guitar and producing some seriously fucked up gravelly bottleneck blues mojo with gargantuan…

Alan Skidmore's Ubizo - 50 Journeys

Alan Skidmore's Ubizo - 50 Journeys

(3 stars)2 Oct 2008

JAZZ Another foray into the fusion of Coltrane-influenced jazz with a vibrant African vibe that saxophonist Alan Skidmore has previously explored with Ubizo, but with a stronger slant toward the world music pole than on their two earlier discs. The…

Also Released - Music

Also Released - Music

2 Oct 2008

The Clash - Live Revolution Rock (SongBMG) Apparently Joe Strummer found the long-lost tapes of this 1982 concert while moving house. The punk rockers shake up New York’s Shea Stadium with hits including ‘London Calling’ and ‘Rock the Casbah’. Kris…

Ben Folds - Way To Normal

Ben Folds - Way To Normal

(3 stars)2 Oct 2008

INDIE Divorce is a bitch. But instead of languishing in his underpants, all beardy and beer-soaked following a much publicised split from his wife, Ben Folds jumped straight back into the studio and has come up with these 12 energy-packed tracks for…

Css

CSS

2 Oct 2008

If any musician has put the giddy fun back into indie over the last few years it has to be CSS’ Lovefoxxx, famed for her array of spangly catsuits, exuberant dance moves and sheer happy, smiley lovability. That CSS also turn out some seriously danceable…

Dananananaykroyd

Dananananaykroyd

2 Oct 2008

Despite having one of the most infuriatingly difficult names to spell in indie rock Dananananaykroyd are busy making waves with their thundering guitar clatter. Just witness the addictive math rock punk mayhem of latest single ‘Pink Sabbath’. Catch them…

David Sanborn - Here & Gone

David Sanborn - Here & Gone

(3 stars)2 Oct 2008

JAZZ Saxophonist David Sanborn takes on the staple blues and R&B repertoire in a disc that many will doubtless see as just another commercial gambit from a very successful musician. The stacking up of guest artists – Derek Trucks on ‘Brother Ray’…

Desalvo - Mood Poisoner

Desalvo - Mood Poisoner

(4 stars)2 Oct 2008

ROCK The fringes of rock music are littered with bad intentions. Bands of grunts that wish to thrill us, disorient us, frighten us and make us feel mildly queasy. Glasgow’s own Desalvo achieve all of this in one long-coming, fast burning debut album…

Doug Hoekstra - Blooming Roses

Doug Hoekstra - Blooming Roses

(3 stars)2 Oct 2008

ALT-FOLK COUNTRY Now several solo albums and 14 years into his career (not counting his pre-solo time with Chicago outfit Bucket No.6), Nashville-based Hoekstra returns with another set of whispering, easy-on-the-ear songs. While Dylan, Cohen and…

Eliza Gilkyson

Eliza Gilkyson

2 Oct 2008

In our increasingly cynical world, moments of optimism appear more fleeting than ever. Eliza Gilkyson’s is a chink of bright sunshine on a cloudy day, and her lilting, warm tones have been a delight to behold for almost 30 years now. That’s not to say…

Found Magazine

Found Magazine - Tales from the unexpected

2 Oct 2008

What’s the best thing you’ve found? There’s a note I found in our hometown, I think I just found it next to my bike one day. It’s a pretty handsome looking flyer, and it says, ‘Please Lock This Door. It will prevent unauthorised people from entering…

Iglu & Hartly

Iglu & Hartly

(3 stars)2 Oct 2008

ROCK ‘Glasgow make some fucking NOISE! We’re Iglu & Hartly and we’re here to party!’ If you’d ever wondered what would happen if a chiselled boy band took a brace of hook-laden pop songs to the wrong side of the tracks, then this was your answer.

Jeans Team

Jeans Team

2 Oct 2008

German electronic with a nod to art school punk and experimental pop. Naming themselves after a neon sign they found at an abandoned jeans shop in Berlin, the band take the electro template as laid out by Kraftwerk but add a healthy dose of tongue in…

Kings of Leon - Only By The Night

Kings of Leon - Only By The Night

(2 stars)2 Oct 2008

ROCK Darwin’s theory of convergent evolution states that disparate, unrelated organisms evolve similar traits when adapting to similar environments, and it’s clearly in evidence amongst stadium rock bands. Using the blustery, overblown U2 blueprint…

Last word: Lesley Garrett

Last word: Lesley Garrett

2 Oct 2008

First record you ever bought ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ by Simon & Garfunkel. Last time you were chatted up Last weekend at the Eurovision dance contest – that Len Goodman really is very saucy! First film you saw that really moved you…

Mungo's Hifi - Sound System Champions

Mungo's Hifi - Sound System Champions

(4 stars)2 Oct 2008

REGGAE ETC Sound system culture is surprisingly at home in a dreich Scotland and one has come of age here throughout the course of the last decade. Here Mungo’s self-congratulatory debut long-player champions the collective as no less proactive in…

New Season Previews

New Season Previews

2 Oct 2008

CLASSICAL After the short post-Edinburgh Festival classical music famine, it is back to feast time on the concert and opera scene as all the main companies celebrate the start of their autumn seasons. October alone would surely justify Glasgow its…

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

(3 stars)2 Oct 2008

ROCK Liking a new Oasis album nowadays has less to do with the actual songs and more to do with how you feel about them. They, like their fellow indie spods turned megastars Coldplay and Razorlight, provoke wrath and rapture in equal measure in our…

Popup - A Time and a Place

Popup - A Time and a Place

(4 stars)2 Oct 2008

INDIE If it has felt like a long time coming for Popup’s debut long player to land in our arms then maybe it’s because we’ve been aware of them being damn good from very early on. Furious early demos, bursting with barely contained energy, recorded…

Singles & Downloads

Singles & Downloads

2 Oct 2008

Nothing draws a groan of predictably quite like finding a new Oasis shortplayer on top of the singles pile, so we’ll keep this brief. ‘Shock of the Lightning’ (Big Brother) •• is another bit of drony fluff Noel Gallagher probably found down the back of…

The Dykeenies

The Dykeenies

(3 stars)2 Oct 2008

LIVE INDIE ROCK WEBCAST This live webcast with The Dykeenies is a promo for the Red Bull Bedroom Jam website, which invites up and coming bands to post footage of gigs in their own bedrooms online. Except, erm, we’re not in a bedroom, but rather…

The Fire and I

The Fire and I

(4 stars)2 Oct 2008

POWER DUO Congratulations to Bathgate duo The Fire and I, who have managed to strip the whole concept of the rock ‘n’ roll band back down to its most basic elements. Essentially a four-legged rhythm section, they combine the drumming of Hooligan (we…

The Starlets

The Starlets

(4 stars)2 Oct 2008

INDIE They might be clad in jeans and speak (if not sing) with pronounced Glasgow accents, but The Starlets are the model of sophistication, from their choice of covers – a Go-Betweens song ‘to warm up’ – to their impeccable arrangements.

Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation

Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation

(4 stars)2 Oct 2008

WORLD LOUNGE Leaders of the horizontal protest Thievery Corporation remain resolutely political in their approach and there is really no mistaking who programmed this set of sophisticate dub lounge. The breadth of styles treated to their signature…

Travis - Ode To J Smith

Travis - Ode To J Smith

(3 stars)2 Oct 2008

INDIE This, Travis’ fifth studio album, is both their finest since 1999’s The Man Who and just, y’know, alright. The fact is, after making a glistening splash with Good Feeling and then predictably repeating the winning formula hit on with The Man…

TV on the Radio - Dear Science

TV on the Radio - Dear Science

(4 stars)2 Oct 2008

POP Since they first sneaked into view five years ago, throwing down doo-wop takes on Pixies tunes and post-MBV space funk, TV on the Radio have been, to say the least, awkward customers, their sonic tricksiness often being a barrier to the enjoyment…

Vessels

Vessels

2 Oct 2008

White Fields and Open Devices, the debut album from this Leeds quintet is a breathtaking beast, recorded in the wilds of Minnesota at the same studio where Nirvana’s In Utero and PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me were laid down. At first glance, Vessel’s epic Sigur…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Mogwai

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Mogwai

18 Sep 2008

Is it true that you were asked to be in Mogwai because Stuart Braithwaite thought you were ‘a good laugh?’ I hope I’m still a good laugh; I’ve seen them smile at me a few times, even today. I’m quite an annoying person, really; I’m just very…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Cibelle

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Cibelle

18 Sep 2008

‘Basically Tarzan makes love to Shirley Bassey but they’re in a threesome with a hula girl,’ laughs rising electro folk starlet Cibelle from her East London abode. ‘They have been kidnapped by a UFO from the 1950s and are plonked in the jungle. Monkeys…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Tennent’s Mutual

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Tennent’s Mutual

18 Sep 2008

Don’t worry if you’re still scratching your head at the concept of Tennent’s Mutual – the ‘experimental’ new ‘co-creative’ music initiative, which launched its first line-up earlier this month – you’re in good company, and even Tennent’s’ Senior…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Future music

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Future music

18 Sep 2008

Limbering up well in advance for the run-up to Christmas (yes, it’s only September and we’ve already dropped the C-word), all manner of superstar acts are crawling out the woodwork to release long awaited albums. Oasis pave the way with their seventh…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Rock’n’roll agony aunt

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Rock’n’roll agony aunt

18 Sep 2008

Dear List, I’ve just bought the tightest keks in Europe and a vest so day glow it could send a Geiger counter wild at 50 paces. Flag me up some how now danceable indie gigs at which to flash my hot new garb. Beth, Maryhill. Flaunt your new dapper…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Sam Sparro

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Sam Sparro

18 Sep 2008

Oh dear. It’s not like the summer hasn’t been one long string of achievements for Sam Sparro, aka 25-year-old singer Sam Falson, whose ‘Black and Gold’ will be remembered as one of the sleekest dancefloor anthems of 2008, but more or less the first…

Friendly Fires

Friendly Fires

18 Sep 2008

ELECTRO SHOEGAZE It’s quite probable that pens and keyboard fingers across the land have been itching to write/type the phrase ‘new wave of new rave’ for at least a year now, so might The List endeavour to jump in before anyone else gets there.

John Dolmayan

John Dolmayan

18 Sep 2008

There are plenty of famous faces who love comics: Jonathan Ross, Edward Norton, Sam Raimi, Jon Bon Jovi, Simon Pegg, Jerry Seinfeld, Quentin Tarantino and Nicolas Cage. Even Anthrax wrote ‘I am the Law’ about Judge Dredd. But not many are as passionate…

The Picture House

The Picture House

18 Sep 2008

For gigs of a certain size Edinburgh has long had a gaping hole where a venue should be. Up-and-coming acts love Cabaret Voltaire, smaller touring bands play the 700 capacity Liquid Rooms and then … nothing until the Corn Exchange at almost 3000…

Velcro Quartet

Velcro Quartet

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

GLAM POP Many fine young Scots bands are already lined-up to play The Mill, Miller beer’s new branding doohickey come weekly live gig in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and The List can report it’s actually a pretty good night out. The bands are well-chosen…

Autumn Music Preview 08 - Mogwai

Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

ROCK The line between familiarity and contempt is drawn thinner than ever currently, but Mogwai, six albums and 12 years in, seem in no danger of wearing out their welcome. Given how limiting the initial wordless loud-quiet-loud grind on which…

Half Moon

5 Reasons To Go See - Half Man Half Biscuit

18 Sep 2008

1 Gigs by the band are a rarity. Their peccadilloes famously led to them turning down 80s TV show The Tube (and a helicopter ride there) because it clashed with a Tranmere Rovers match. Other means of transport are no more popular – the Renfrew Ferry…

Also Released - Music

18 Sep 2008

Rags & Feathers - The Other Side of Morning ( Lucky Number Nine ) Tom Davis used to make rowdy garage blues with Dead Fly Buchowski, but this debut from his new Glasgow-based band, Rags & Feathers is an altogether gentler affair, full of lush, folky…

Approximately Infinite Universe

Approximately Infinite Universe

18 Sep 2008

Subtitled ‘a caravan of raw sound magic from Finland and the US’ Approximately Infinite Universe is a showcase of innovative experimental acts from the underground. From acid folk to ‘steam punk’ and trance from the likes of Kemialliset Ystavat & Axolo…

Born Ruffians

Born Ruffians

18 Sep 2008

First headline tour from Canada’s Born Ruffians as they promote their debut album Red, Yellow & Blue. A subtle mix of twinkling electronica and nu folk with an indie vibe that they modestly describe as ‘hootin’ and hollerin’ to create a sound we call…

Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun

Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

POP There’s no disputing Brian Wilson’s genius – Beach Boy’s classic Pet Sounds is proof alone – and it’s wonderful to have him back from his self-imposed exile; performing live (particularly his joyous set at T in the Park in 2007) and releasing…

Charles Lloyd - Dream Weaver - The Atlantic Years 1966-69

Charles Lloyd - Dream Weaver - The Atlantic Years 1966-69

(3 stars)18 Sep 2008

JAZZ Saxophonist Charles Lloyd is now a respected elder statesman in jazz circles, but in the late 60s his group with pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette was making inroads into the rock audience with appearances at venues like the…

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