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CAREER SUICIDE, by Alex Kress
Follow the link to learn about Toronto's punk scene, and get to know the woman who captures it all.
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The Charlatans' Crowd
Photo by Calum Rafferty
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INTERVIEW: Skaters
Find out what it takes to get "over the pain of being on a major label." New releases, new ideas and new set lists. Photo by Corrine McAndrews.
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CAREER SUICIDE, by Alex Kress
Follow the link to learn about Toronto's punk scene, and get to know the woman who captures it all.
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PLAYLIST OF THE WEEK #7 (14/06/2016):
This week's playlist sports the new music we have been raving about this week. Have a listen, familiarise yourself with some of the best new music and new artists from Scotland and beyond.
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MUSIC: LIVE: BABY STRANGE AND WHITE OUTDO THEMSELVES AS O2 ABC HEADLINERS
If you follow at least half of the most promising bands in Scotland right now on Twitter, you’d know there was something going down at the O2 ABC on Friday night. Four of these bands - The Cut, The Ninth Wave, WHITE and Baby Strange - took to the stage, with the latter two co-headlining. As end of the year gigs go this one couldn’t have been more celebratory. After impressive openings from The Cut and The Ninth Wave, the lights cut out and the speakers boom a famous monologue
MUSIC: INTRODUCING: SOME CANADIAN BANDS WE THINK YOU'LL LOVE (PART II)
Lipstick Machine (Toronto) is the self-proclaimed "illegitimate love child of the 60's and the 80's." Blending distinctive vocals and crooning guitars and a rhythm section that is smooth as melted chocolate, makes for a divine ode to the post punk era. Sway away your blues to this chilled out sound. Find Lipstick Machine on the following sites:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Lipstick-Machine-6554959409/?fref=ts
Bandcamp - https://lipstickmachine.bandcamp.com/ Mode Mode
SPLIT SECONDS IN TORONTO PUNK: A CONVERSATION WITH LIVE MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHER, ALEX KRESS
Alex Kress is a Toronto based photographer who takes the intangible vulgarities of punk music and moulds them into something beautiful. Her work is a monochrome feast for the eyes; boasting a visual representation of Toronto's thriving punk scene that is as fraught and endearing as it is encapsulating. "It is frightening sometimes. Authentic and stripped down. It's punk." After she moved to Toronto in July 2015, Alex made it her mission to get to know the city's punk scene an
MUSIC: INTRODUCING: SOME CANADIAN BANDS WE THINK YOU'LL LOVE (PART I)
The title of the piece explains it. Here are some Canadian bands we think (hope) you'll love. VCR (Toronto) are a lot of fun and a lot of noise and a lot of shit. They blend a brash punk rhythm, with incandescent hooks and abrasive vocals to make a compilation of bittersweet sounds that are hard to swallow. But it tastes oh so good once you do. If you like Fat White Family you'll probably like VCR. Pelt yourself about your room for a while. It's healthy. Find VCR on the follo
MUSIC: LIVE: JAWS PLAY A TRIUMPHANT SOLD-OUT KING TUTS SHOW
The Birmingham four-piece brought their trance inducing alt-rock sound to a sold-out King Tuts. Jaws do melancholy very well. Their latest release, Simplicity, is an album that manages to take on the themes of anxiety, uncertainty and depression and transform them, over the course of 11 songs, into something bitter-sweet and hopeful. The lyrics are dark, but the sound is bright, loud, dreamy. All of this makes for a great, rounded album - it has peaks, valleys and interludes;
MUSIC: D.I.D ARE BACK WITH LATEST SINGLE, I MEANT TO HURT YOU
D.I.D have hit us in the jugular for the third time this year. Brand new track I Meant To Hurt You came out on Friday and they've just announced the release of their sophomore album, The State We're In, coming December 2nd. D.I.D have been teasing us for the past two years, releasing the Fast Food EP in 2015 along with a cheeky little festive number, TV Christmas. They dangled some Flush bait in front of our eyes earlier this year, with the follow-up Killer Whale reeling us i
MUSIC: JAWS ARE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER
They waited two years to share it, but JAWS have finally dropped their second album, Simplicity. The sophomore is a far cry from the Birmingham lads' fuzzy-edged debut, Be Slowly. This LP brags a natural maturation from '2012 indie kids' to 'heavy-weight alt-rock champions'. "I'm just a boy
but I'll be a better man" Opening track, Just a Boy features some vehement lead guitar, which assists in birthing a dark and heartfelt sound that was never really present in JAWS' music b
MUSIC: SWEET WHITE HAVE RETURNED WITH NEW SINGLE, GENINE
SWEET WHITE are five lads from Aberdeen with a bittersweet alt-rock sound that grabs you by the heart strings and doesn't stop pulling. Scotland caught onto the band after the release of their debut EP, Monet - which included their most popular single at the time, Tides. The five musicians built up a following after playing shows with Baby Strange and headlining a 9-date Scottish tour. However, Jake (vocals), Ruairidh (Guitar), James (Guitar), Shaun (Drums) and Corrin (keys)
MUSIC: LIVE: THE TEMPER TRAP SOUND A BIT CONFUSED, AND WE ARE TOO
The Temper Trap have been an almost-hit since 2009. Their eclectic debut album, Conditions, set their career alight, taking them from a small group of alt-rock dreamers, to an internationally appreciated pop-music unit. Their 2006 track, Sweet Disposition, was their all-access ticket to the mainstream. The Temper Trap moseyed onstage at Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Theatre with their long wispy hair flowing in a non-existent wind. Noise from their eager crowd ricochets through t
MUSIC: LIVE: BRONCHO PLAYED BROADCAST, GLASGOW AND IT WENT DOWN A TREAT
BRONCHO are a unit of alternative rockers from Oklahoma, in the U.S. The lo-fi-esque quartette ventured to Glasgow on October 3rd, as part of their ‘Double Vanity EU tour’. They played one of Glasgows' most popular basement venues, packing out the intimate floors in a space that is irregularly small for this rising band. Ecstatic supports sets from The Pale Kids and Grand Prix set the evening off to a fantastic start. These two artists are sure to be headlining their own EU/U
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