Interview with Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: “Harps are nice”
The most awesome thing about Mogwai is how they manage to make music that can be both enormously loud and bombastic and beautifully pretty and shhhhhh. Latest album The Hawk is Howling, for example, is...
View ArticleBehind Alan Moore’s UNEARTHING: Interview with Adam Drucker/DoseOne and...
I dig art performances. I dig dark music. I dig crazy weird comics and comic book people. So imagine my black-clad gothic delight when I recently discovered that grapic novels’ greatest antihero and...
View ArticleMogwai North American Tour 2011 Ticket Presale on NOW
Was big news in small circles last week when Scottish quietloudquietloud indie masters Mogwai announced that its new album would be released on Valentine’s Day next year in the UK, and a day later in...
View ArticleMOGWAI – Young Team Wrap Tour with Orchestral Onslaught (Photos/Review)
The kids next to me were most likely born just a few years before I first saw Scotland’s Mogwai, on their first-ever visit to Toronto, in 1999. They’re standing in front of one of two extra...
View ArticleFear Satan: MOGWAI live in Vancouver (Photos/Review)
Apologies to Dr. Seuss but “it started in low. Then it started to grow.” Mogwai live at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on November 25th began benignly then grew into a Cerberus of layered guitars,...
View ArticleBOATY WEEKENDER Diary – Days 4 & 5. Déjà vu all over again, and sad goodbyes
CLICK HERE IF YOU MISSED MY DAY 1, DAY 2 or DAY 3 DIARIES OF THE BOATY WEEKENDER DAY 4 – MIDDLE OF THE BALEARIC SEA AGAIN. 11:00am: After a morning spent gazing out at the water, and building complex...
View ArticleBOATY WEEKENDER Diary – Day 2. Somewhere in the middle of the Balearic Sea
MISSED DAY 1’s INTRO AND RECAP OF THE BOATY WEEKENDER? READ IT HERE NOW DAY 2: SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BALEARIC SEA 11am: Things are not excellent. I have a hangover and I’m on a boat and what...
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