It’s a briskly cold February morning when I meet Michael and John in Glasgow’s West End for a coffee and to chat about Foxface, their album and that mask. We meet outside Tinderbox on Byres Road, the area you read about in Belle and Sebastian sleevenotes. What really chuffs me to start with is that they’ve come across from their respective parts of Glasgow just for this interview, and not like I assumed, that they’d be doing a whole day of press.

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The name may be unfamiliar, but it’s quite possible you’ve seen the faces before. Certainly FANGS, who you may (or may not) see on tour with Sons and Daughters, have been around the block, so to speak. Two parts electropunks Motormark, one part, um, prog punks Lapsus Linguae, their lineup is not all it seems, as they’ll explain shortly. […]

Colin MacIntyre has a penchant for peculiar instruments. He tells me his new album The Water features a harmonium. “It’s a kind of keyboard which sounds similar to an accordion” he explains. “You use a pedal to pump wind through it, so it’s a great way of getting some exercise in the studio.” Apparently the model McIntyre owns is particularly old. “It’s probably got mice running around in it” he says. […]

Spanning a network of vilages from Sussex to Devon, Drift Records formed at the end of 2005 following various ‘collective’ activities. They’ve evolved into a full recording releasing and touring machine, and its musician head honchos are set to head out across Scotland and the UK. Alan Souter spoke to co-founder The R.G. Morrison. […]

The morning after playing the last show of The Mountain Goats’ tour at the Oran Mor in Glasgow, John Darnielle, the man behind the American lo-fi folk stalwarts, stands outside a travelodge smoking and wearing a pointy brown woolly hat. […]

One of our favourite cliches round these here parts is “if you’ve not heard of them already, you will soon”. This applies nicely to Glasgow 5-piece Attic Lights, with the only caveat to this being that you will quite probably have heard of them already. Perhaps you heard them on the BMX Bandits’ most recent album My Chain. Or you spotted them on BBC2’s Culture show, or on BBC Scotland (The Music Show, and Rapal) or STV’s Nochd Gun Chadal’. And those are just the sightings, their stirring harmonies are well-kent on XFM London, Radio 2, and all the places that you’d expect to hear a band that, it seems, everyone is talking about. […]

OK – so when is a ‘Riot Grrrl’ band not a ‘girl band?’ How about when it has a BLOKE playing drums!! Darlington based four-piece, We Start Fires have been attracting increased mainstream media attention in the build-up to their recently released eponymously entitled debut album. […]