Rock & Pop

I had no idea what to expect of this evening concert, but it was recommended by a friend and that was enough…
Loop were a band that shone so very brightly before burning out after just three albums between 1986 and 1991…
It’s a busy night for music lovers in old Edinburgh town. 
As the Edinburgh International Festival tackles the “thundering hooves” of rival UK festivals (notably…
It’s been a long road for Lee “Scratch” Perry, The Upsetter at the pulsing centre of dub, and at the age of…
There is no faulting the music to American Idiot.
Authentic sound makes it an easy day’s night.
Standing in a crowded Caves under an arching ceiling is somewhat akin to being in a church. A noisy,…
It’s Sunday night and the Picture House is fit to bursting with hollering friends and families out to support…
A robed figure wanders across the Usher Hall stage, surrounded by cosmic paraphernalia and alien effigies,…
George Lucas's 1971 feature debut THX 1138 has never felt more prescient in its depiction of a future…
Question: Why are TV talent shows so popular? From Pop
Madness. Madness, they call it, madness.They’re right. Princes Street at New Year is beyond madness, it is…
San Francisco drone-rockers Wooden Shjips have spent the past ten years slowly building a reputation for…
San Francisco’s Girls seem to be so named after their unreachable objects of desire that just might make them…
It's a truth generally acknowledged that the love that once dared not speak its name nowadays just won't shut…
Arriving back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a second year, following sell out performances at the…
The spirit of nineties rave is alive and kicking, if a little ragged at the seams and somewhat the worse for…
A Deerhoof song generally tends not to follow a straightforward, linear curve.  They crash to halts…
It’s 50 years since Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Sound of Silence’ hit the British charts. The duo’s delirious…