The Rapture

The Drums, Friendly Fires, Mystery Jets and Tim Minchin announced for RockNess 2012

The Rapture, Admiral Fallow and Mylo also added to line-up

2 Mar 2012

The Drums, Friendly Fires and Mystery Jets are among the latest batch of bands to be added to the 2012 RockNess line up. Other acts recently added to bill include The View, The Rapture, Mylo, Admiral Fallow, Kassidy, Zane Lowe, Dave Clarke and…

The Rapture to bowl against fan

Music Gossip

9 Dec 2011

The Rapture will take on one of their fans at bowling next week. The 'Olio' group are playing a show in London as part of the Special Engagement Concert Series by Noisey.com, which aim to make the audience part of the show, and will see the band…

New York's The Rapture set for UK tour

After a tumultuous period, the band are back on track with new album In the Grace of Your Love

21 Sep 2011

‘It’s been a real up and down five years,’ says The Rapture’s drummer Vito Roccoforte on the line from his home in New York City. That’s something of an understatement. In the half-decade since their second full-length album Pieces of the People We…

The Rapture's positive push

Music Gossip

31 Aug 2011

The Rapture purposefully wanted their new album to be positive. The 'House of Jealous Lovers' band's singer Luke Jenner was inspired to create their new album, 'In the Grace of Your Love', as an upbeat record by both overcoming personal tragedy and…

The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love

Operating with one or both feet off the dancefloor

24 Aug 2011

(DFA) Don’t go into this third album by New York’s sometime disco-punk mavericks expecting the uplifting Chicago house keys of comeback single ‘How Deep is Your Love?’ and you’ll be fine. That the second and most recent of their club-friendly earlier…

Optimover: The end of Optimo - A legendary club night

15 Apr 2010

Somehow, phrases like ‘the end of an era’ seem too melodramatic for Optimo (Espacio), a club which just cut the crap and got on with defining Glasgow’s Sunday night. For the past thirteen years, its residents JD Twitch and JG Wilkes (aka Keith McIvor…

Indian Summer - Running Order

3 Jul 2007

14 SATURDAY • Wilco See preview. • Midlake Glorious 70s folk-rock inspired album The Trials of Van Occunapther was one of the albums of 2006. • The Rapture Scratchy punk funk with a slick disco edge from these hipper-than-hip-New…

Rapture, The

Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Thu 12 Oct

28 Sep 2006

Punk funk: remember that one? It was a little bit new wave, but quite post punk. Well, more post-post-punk. But pre-new rave. Such is the way the musical terminology merry-go-round rapidly spins (largely care of the people at NME), and on it again…

Rapture, The - album review

The Rapture

18 Sep 2006

PUNK FUNK The Rapture pretty much invented what people laughingly refer to as ‘new rave’. Punk funk, pulsating basslines, brass and fuzzed guitars; the scrawny illegitimate offspring of Madchester and Iggy Pop. Their last album spawned the monstrous…