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Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own
‘Troubled’ chanteuse with a penchant for over-indulging in mascara Amy Winehouse ain’t exactly struggling to flog copies of her latest LP Back To Black from the boot of a Morris Minor. So it’s got to be asked, who’s really benefiting from the release of the record’s fourth excerpt ‘Tears Dry On Their Own?»
Monster Bobby - Gaps
Not content with lubricating the nation’s loins through a trio of sultrily decorated chanteuses, Monster Bobby's slapped on the aftershave, waxed up his locks and swaggered out on his own, determined to get himself some flesh-hankering adoration with the release of debut LP Gaps...»
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
Eugene Hütz’s rag-tag troupe of gypsy-punk ‘rebels’ may have attained unparalleled global exposure but, seriously, what kind of self-respecting - supposedly alternative - outfit chooses a stadium packed to the brim with comatosed Black-Eyed-Diddy-Patrol luddites over Balado’s Buckfast-fuelled pandemonium?...»
Architecture In Helsinki - Places Like This
Have Architecture In Helsinki (AIH) – Australia’s heroically bizarre experimental-pop stalwarts - returned to resurrect those long-forgotten days of inebriated tomfoolery under the baking hot sun? Let's find out....»
Liars - Plaster Casts Of Everything
Hurtling like a nuclear torpedo from the dank caustic cavern that echoed to the tune of album three Drum’s Not Dead, Plaster Casts… evokes the mindless discord of album two They Were Wrong So We Drowned, only with a new-found melodic lilt. Yup, that’s right: these screeching proponents of hollering experimentation have suddenly decided to write a tune. Well, sort of...»
Simon Breed - The Filth And Wonder Of
Simon Breed has balls. But his are not your atypical, semi-retracted ‘it’s a bit cold in here, ain’t it?’ cobblers; nor are they of the Liam Gallagher ‘I’m the fucking daddy round these parts’ variety...»
This Is Music at Edinburgh Henry's Cellar Bar, Thu 31 May
Edinburgh seems so tragically inept at coping with rain I’m starting to think it might be quicker canoeing it to Henry’s Cellar Bar for This Is Music’s 1st birthday bash....»
To My Boy - Model
This text-talking, Bluetooth-loving world of ours has become too damn mechanical. Like a harrowing Orwellian premonition, efficiency’s finally prevailed over the stifling frailties of human nature, reducing society to the bleak regimentation of self-serve shopping, internet banking and on-line acquaintances...»
The Flesh - Firetower
After half an hour with The Flesh you’ll gaze over to the bar where Karen O, Debbie Harry and Kate Jackson sit guzzling bottles of Jack and realise just how much fun you could be having elsewhere...»
Shy Child - Noise Won't Stop
Shy Child obviously aren’t afraid of irony. By entitling their third full LP Noise Won’t Stop, the Brooklyn duo have knowingly set themselves up for a fall...»
Field Music at Edinburgh Bongo Club, Fri 27 Apr
Bursting from the knife-edged opus of ‘If Only The Moon Were Up’ into a shuddering psychedelic finale that parallels Animal Collective’s synchronised witchery, Field Music prove, quite simply, why they’re this country’s finest bastions of timeless, jaw-dropping melody...»
The Low Miffs at Edinburgh Bongo Club, Fri 23 Mar
Finishing with the relentless crescendo of ‘Earl Grey’, the band brings the short set – strangely devoid of the excellent 'Also Sprach Shareholder' – to a dramatic and utterly compelling climax. If this is The Low Miffs’ take on soapbox politics then they’ve left us in little doubt where tonight’s votes should go...»