More often than not, the daunting, and perhaps in retrospect, haunting task of reviewing The Fall is a practice best avoided. The same applies when holding any great expectations for […]
Casual Sex and Wake the President, two of the finest bands in Glasgow, have released a split 7” single, and decided to celebrate with a gig in the Old Hairdresser’s […]
Chanjrit Singh Highlife at La Cheetah Sat 3 November When legendary French avant garde composer Edgar Varese was asked by a journalist how he composed music ahead of its time, […]
Congratulations are due to ALt-J for winning this year’s BARCLAYCARD mercury music prize for being the most irrelevant, trivial band that no-one really likes in Britain this year. Commiserations to […]
“I’d say we’re like Birthday Party running into Michael Stipe on a guided tour of under water Antarctica given by Werner Herzog.” For those of you unfamiliar with Ed Schrader’s Music […]
The CCA, as Glasgow’s longest-running and most prominent arts centre, has been celebrating its history with an exhibition, “What We have Done, What We are About To […]
As Mitt Romney reveals his reptilian-like underbelly in the run up to the 2012 Presidential Election, we revisit our recent interview with one of America’s most politically charged musical legends, […]
Evolutionary biologist, author and latter day ‘celebrity atheist’ Richard Dawkins has fought and won many a battle on the flaws, validity and general ridiculousness of organized religion. With Mitt Romney’s […]
Whatever you think about Justice, they certainly know how to put on a show, occupying that pivotal space where rock and roll meets electronic music in glorious technicolour. Or ‘electroniq […]
Over a year or so ago, NES’s Mark Millar and I, Ray, were afforded the opportunity of visiting the Sonic Visions festival in Luxembourg; a low key, seemingly straight-forward affair, which […]
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