Music Archive

  • Wednesday 3 April 2013

    l With her father's old band, Big Country, releasing a new album, The Journey, on April 8, with Mike Peters of The Alarm on vocals (and kicking off a tour in Glasgow and Aberdeen on April 12 and 13), Kirsten Adamson, daughter of the late Stuart Adamson, is gigging with her band, The Gillyflowers.

  • Wednesday 3 April 2013

    It's been quite a year.

  • Wednesday 3 April 2013

    No, I had not previously heard them either, but this is the third album from Los Angeles-based electro-pop producers Samuel Bing and Julian Wass (almost certainly not their given names), following Part 1: John Shade, Your Future's Made and Part 2: The New December, which appeared in 2009 and 2010.

  • Tuesday 2 April 2013

    Rating: five stars

  • Tuesday 2 April 2013

    l Edinburgh's Usher Hall will present a series of international orchestras in 2013/14, including Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, The Sixteen, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Vienna Tonkunstler Orchestra.

  • Tuesday 2 April 2013

    Everyone is making a fuss about Doctor Who's 50th anniversary, but the Timelord had his feet up for 16 of those years.

  • Monday 1 April 2013

    A new portrait of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix - made from 4,000 Fender plectrums - will go on public display for the first time on Tuesday.

  • Monday 1 April 2013

    1953: Mess Around, by Ray Charles

  • Monday 1 April 2013

    It is almost 9.30pm – from a 7.30pm start – before a packed and predominantly female King's is given the opportunity to sing along, and Marti makes clear this will be a very different version of the Wet Wet Wet hit Love Is All Around, built around the harp playing of Julia Thornton.

  • Monday 1 April 2013

    l Moray West, who is now 18 and was described by Simon Cowell as "probably the best singer I've ever heard" when he recruited him for his choir-boy group Angelis, is releasing an album of recordings he made as an 11-year-old boy treble.

  • Monday 1 April 2013

    In case anyone was still wondering, these two guitarists' "The Colonel & the Governor" aliases have been uncovered.

  • Monday 1 April 2013

    ONLY hours before, BBC Radio 3's Music Matters had discussed the lasting impact of the "authentic" period performance movement on how we listen – and play – today.

  • Sunday 31 March 2013

    Marius Neset, Birds (Edition)

  • Sunday 31 March 2013

    The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Bella Union)

  • Sunday 31 March 2013

    Beethoven Symphonies Nos 4 and 7

  • Saturday 30 March 2013

    Here's today's question.

  • Thursday 28 March 2013

    THE problem with hybrid concerts is that the various elements so often neither sit comfortably together nor cohere; in a sense that applied to last weekend's "photochoreographed" performance by the RSNO of Smetana's Ma Vlast, which was neither one thing nor the other.

  • Thursday 28 March 2013

    They may have been going for more than 40 years, but there's something eternal about Chas and Dave.

  • Thursday 28 March 2013

    For a man with a pretty hectic schedule, Marti Pellow looks pretty relaxed in his casual threads in a comfy chair in an upmarket Glasgow hotel.

  • Thursday 28 March 2013

    The opening bars of Conquering Animal Sound's new album sound like the beginning and end of the world.

  • Thursday 28 March 2013

    WHOEVER coined the term pocket dynamo must have envisaged Mollie O'Brien.

  • Wednesday 27 March 2013

    No tour, no interviews, no new photos of all five of them together.

  • Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Fresh off the back of this year's NME Awards Tour, Peace find themselves enjoying a right-time, right-place scenario: there's nothing new to any of the individual elements in their recycled sound, but the total package they offer seems to be just what 2013 is after.

  • Wednesday 27 March 2013

    l Perthshire-based composer Graham Robb has scored a notable transatlantic success with his Flora and the Prince opera about Bonnie Prince Charlie's escape after the battle of Culloden.

  • Wednesday 27 March 2013

    If it's Monday, it must be Milan.

  • Wednesday 27 March 2013

    THE third track on Dave Arcari's latest album, Tell Me, Baby, indicates what he and his band are capable of live: ragged, raw, irresistible blues, powered by a simple, nagging riff.

  • Wednesday 27 March 2013

    All bar one of the dozen songs on the new collection from Spain-domiciled Nebraskan Josh Rouse is in the present tense, a broad hint that this is a set about where he's at, and the title he has given it is no idle boast, even if that song itself is in 6/8 rather than 3/4 time.

  • Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Barrowland, Glasgow

  • Wednesday 27 March 2013

    Terminology can be a tricky thing when it comes to a festival such as Counterflows.

  • Monday 25 March 2013

    ON Thanksgiving Day last November, while in California, Martin Taylor, the guitarist, posted an unusually frank message on his website.