Ambulances
By Craig Harkness • Dec 24th, 2009 • Category: jrbig, long playersWhen you’re holed up in a cottage in deepest darkest Fife with only herbal-remedies (Chinese-Tea) and array of instruments and ideas for company…
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Animal Collective
By Craig Harkness • Dec 11th, 2009 • Category: short playersWith Merriweather Post Pavillion providing a veritable touchstone of distinction for dilettantes, credible indie types and musos alike in 2009; the question remains, now that the dust has settled, does it live up to the hype…
We Were Promised Jetpacks
By Craig Harkness • Dec 3rd, 2009 • Category: jrwee, short playersAfter recently being signed to Fat Cat Records and touring the U.S. with stable mates The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, it could be said We Were Promised Jetpacks have been living in the shadow of their older more experienced siblings
The Pixies / Sons & Daughters
By Craig Harkness • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: gigsWhile not considered quite the watershed moment ‘Sgt. Pepper…’ – ‘Never Mind the Bollocks…’ or indeed ironically ‘Nevermind’ provided; ‘Doolittle’ nevertheless paved the way for the epoch of the alternative-rock scene of the early 90’s
Dinosaur Jr.
By Craig Harkness • Nov 8th, 2009 • Category: short playersLong in the tooth they may be, but the original line-up, who’ve walked the earth for some considerable time, are not ready for extinction just yet.
