I Want More – Kid Canaveral LP review

First impressions can be misleading. On first listen the new Kid Canaveral album ‘Faulty Inner Dialogue’ is somewhat unassuming even if it’s not the downbeat electronica I half jokingly suggested in response to a live show. Certainly the songs  may be less obvious than some of the early singles, but almost straight away fragments of these…

The Thrill Is Back – The Paranoid Style LP review

You don’t “discover” many bands from Washington D.C. on a Dundee stage these days. But that’s exactly the somewhat unlikely circumstances in which I first came across the Paranoid Style. Their set that night was short, just 4 songs, but nevertheless impressive as was the tour E.P. they were selling. From that moment on I…

An Impolite Number of Songs – Belly live

Belly – The Garage, Glasgow – Friday 15th July 2016 When an audience is having their best time in, what, 20 years (?), you know you’re onto a good thing if the band on stage is actually having EVEN more fun. And that’s how it feels at the sold-out Glasgow Garage on Friday night at…

I Don’t Want To Wake Up Feeling Evil No More – The Golden Virgins video

There was one stand-out amongst our listening on our trip down south last week. Incredibly ‘Songs of Praise’ by the Golden Virgins is more than 10 years old (the photo above comes from Myspace!!) but it’s a record that holds up from start to finish today. Whilst the pop singles ‘Renaissance Kid’ and ‘I am…

Listen Paul McCartney – Big Dipper video

Stumbled across this tune on the iPod the other week and it’s been lodged on the internal jukebox ever since: Big Dipper of course hail(ed) from Boston and enjoyed their heyday in the late80s/early 90s. This tribute to the Guided By Voices frontman is taken from their 2012 comeback album ‘Big Dipper Crashes On The…

No Matter Who You Are – 50 Foot Wave E.P.

I may try and sit down on what’s been a pretty exceptional 6 months record wise but it would certainly be wrong to let the recently released 50 Foot Wave E.P. ‘Bath White’ pass without comment. 50 Foot Wave is probably Kristin Hersh’s least well known project and was formed as an outlet for her…