Jan 7, 2025 · Dancer. Glasgow post-punk outfit Dancer released their excellent debut album, 10 Songs I Hate About You, early last year, attracting favourable end of year attention from bigwigs like Pitchfork who dubbed it their sixth favourite rock album of the year.In their Instagram post sharing the news, Dancer announced that they're due to start recording LP2 this month, which we’re very excited for.

Jan 7, 2025 · When it comes to January, in the mag you'll find full reviews of new records from Mogwai and Brooke Combe, while first up here, we get stuck into The Human Fear (10 Jan, Domino), as Franz Ferdinand start a new chapter.The first FF album to feature drummer Audrey Tait and guitarist Dino Bardot, and the first to involve keys-man Julian Corrie on songwriting and creative duties alongside original ...

Jan 6, 2025 · Recorded between Malawi, Sweden and the UK, Full Moon is the product of the South African singer, dancer and poet Moonchild Sanelly’s year of globetrotting. From Primavera to SXSW to Glastonbury, Sanelly’s unique genre-defying meld of electro-pop, afro-punk and hip-hop mixed with her kwaito and jazz roots has been taking music festivals by storm and striking a chord internationally.

Taking place until 25 January, the King Tut’s New Year’s Revolution lineup is extensive, with four bands playing pretty much every night of the run; highlights include the rage-fuelled indie-rock of Indoor Foxes (10 Jan) and Martha May & The Mondays (15 Jan), and the dreamy, folk-tinged indie-rock of Lacuna (25 Jan). Meanwhile, a similar story is …

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Sep 23, 2024 · The bleak details of Rona’s destructive relationship with drink in London – her inability to call it a night, a habit of hiding bottles around her flat, the blackouts from which she wakes covered in cuts and bruises – are perhaps overfamiliar from other cinematic tales of alcoholism, but the scenes on Orkney are fresher.

Jan 9, 2025 · The Penny Black. Edinburgh locals might remember the original Penny Black on West Register St as the pub whose opening hours were 6am till noon.

Nov 7, 2024 · Manly Tears: Duncan Cowles on Silent Men Ahead of his debut feature Silent Men, documentarian Duncan Cowles talks to us about getting blokes to open up on camera, the archivist impulse to capture memories and crying as a cure

Dec 19, 2024 · Nickel Boys Documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross (best known for Hale County This Morning, This Evening) moves into fiction filmmaking with this heartbreaking story of two boys' experience of racism and brutality at a reform school in 1960s Florida

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