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Exposure: The Seventeenth Century

16 Jun 2010

Glasgow based five-piece The Seventeenth Century are a folk rock band with a cornet player and an allergy to electric instruments. They’ve already hit Go North and Rock Ness, and drummer Andy Truscott tells us why we should make sure to watch C17’s…

The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing

The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing

(4 stars)14 Apr 2010

(Fueled by Ramen) It’s rare when a band blows you away on first listen. The Swellers do just that. This album is back-to-basics pop punk, sitting at the same end of the spectrum as Over It/ No Use For A Name/ or Jimmy Eat World with more balls: a…

Exposure: Cobra Starship

Exposure: Cobra Starship

27 Jan 2010

Essentially ‘punk kids’ in a very, very successful stateside power-pop band, bassist Alex Suarez of Cobra Starship (signed to Pete ‘Fall Out Boy’ Wentz’s Decaydance label) takes us back to the beginning. Gabe Saporta (singer) insists he got the band…

Paramore

Paramore

24 Nov 2009

You know a band’s famous when, months after it’s happened, the world is still talking about the singer going blonde, and they’re only just losing Grammies to megastars like Amy Winehouse by a whisker. And boy are Paramore famous. Having sold out…

Six Reasons To Go See: Bowling For Soup

Six Reasons To Go See: Bowling For Soup

1 Oct 2009

1 They do pop punk how it should be done No skinny jeans and emo lyrics here – just average blokes, toilet humour and huge choruses. 2 The guitarist usually takes his shirt off And he’ll probably be the fattest bloke you’ve ever seen. Watching…

Taking Back Sunday on tour

Taking Back Sunday on tour

23 Jul 2009

Taking Back Sunday have had so many line-up changes since their inception in 1999 that they’re now printing T-shirts with the slogan ‘I used to be in Taking Back Sunday’. So have they sent one to former bassist, Fred Mascherino, who had an acrimonious…

Exposure: Dead Boy Robotics

Exposure: Dead Boy Robotics

9 Jul 2009

Edinburgh based duo Dead Boy Robotics used to be, by their own admission, pretty terrible. They haven’t even released an EP yet, but have been selected to play the T Break Stage at T In The Park. Multi instrumentalist Gregor McMillian explains how the…

The All American Rejects

The All American Rejects

22 Jan 2009

POP PUNK It sounds like effortless pop punk, but The All American Rejects almost went ‘crazy’ writing their new album, When The World Comes Down. Guitarist Mike Kennerty explains: ‘When we were writing the second album Move Along (which later went…

Frank Turner - The First Three Years

Frank Turner - The First Three Years

(3 stars)8 Jan 2009

AGIT POP It’s a bit cheeky to release a best of when you’ve only been around for three years. But it’s easy to forgive Frank Turner; British punk rock’s loss was UK alt folk’s gain. The songs sound as good as they always did, and the rock version of…

New Found Glory

New Found Glory

(5 stars)11 Dec 2008

ALT.ROCK It’s really not often you get a band who nail pop punk live. Really nail it. The three supports tonight all try, and fail for various reasons – primarily horrendous sound – but New Found Glory have their own equipment, own sound guy and a…

Frank Turner

Frank Turner

16 Oct 2008

PUNK FOLK Frank Turner’s musical pedigree isn’t half puzzling. He used to front British punk rock outfit Million Dead, has a Black Flag tattoo, and claims Iron Maiden are one of his favourite bands. So what’s he doing these days, musically? Quietly…

Panic at the Disco

T in the Park - Panic at the Disco

3 Jul 2008

It’s hard to be cool when you were ‘discovered’ on the internet by Pete Wentz with only three songs in your repertoire and your ‘fans’ were a few thousand e-friends who thought you were totally hot. Still, you’ve got to give Panic at the Disco points…

Four Year Strong, Meg

Four Year Strong, Meg & Dia and The Colour Fred

(3 stars)22 May 2008

ROCK King Tut’s, Glasgow, Thu 15 May In case you missed the memo, pop punk is cool again, and judging by those on this Give It a Name festival spin off tour, beards are too. But the trouble with all four bands being rotating headliners is that…

Sonic Boom Six

Sonic Boom Six

8 May 2008

PUNK Barfly, Glasgow, Sun 18 May Less than ten years ago, bassist/vocalist Barney Boom’s only audience were the people who showed up to parties he was MCing at. These days, he’s touring internationally, as part of the Manchester-based quartet, the…

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