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Leaving aside efforts from bagpipe ensembles and suchlike, the second album by Glaswegian pop hen Amy Macdonald will be the most Scottish record released this year. Not in a misty-eyed thistle-bran... Lees meer

What would the Matt Pike of twenty years ago, a teenager in a crusty metallic hardcore band called Asbestosdeath, have made of his adult incarnation’s band High On Fire– most specifically, thei... Lees meer

While the world and her husband have lots of fresh and exciting opinions about the changing nature of the music industry in the face of technological leaps, these opinions tend to be put into equal... Lees meer

Pretty much from the starting blocks, Bardo Pond have been about getting high as motherfuckers, and not being ashamed of it. However, this does not mean that they threw this info in everyone's face... Lees meer

Forty years young as a band next year, Cluster’s venerability is not unique in terms of the movement they are most often associated with – the Krautrock scene of 1970s Germany, which wa... Lees meer

The writer asks you to accept that his response to the debut album by Former Ghosts is biased, if only through circumstance. The writer reviewed Dear God, I Hate Myself, the seventh and newest albu... Lees meer

“If you are expecting consolation / I will become outrageous / If you expect me to be outrageous / I will be extra outrageous.” Considering this is the sort of statement that would have most se... Lees meer

If you hold enough interest in the life and times of Toronto prank-punk conceptualists Fucked Up to be familiar with their proverbial 'earlier stuff', the sleeve of this 25-track double-disc compil... Lees meer

Tax avoidance? Enraging fastidious album alphabetizers? Perhaps the members in question truly believe that this incremental shift in direction is worthy of a name change. Whatever the reasons for E... Lees meer

It would certainly be stretching a point to say that Harvey Milk emerged as the complete article, as they have improved in pretty much all departments over time – and that’s with an eight-year ... Lees meer