‘Today, tomorrow and yesterday too.’ So begins ‘I Contain Multitudes’, the first track on Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways, his 39th studio album and first collection of new songs in eight years. Dylan begins where W.B. Yeats, in his great poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ended, speaking ‘Of what is past, or passing, or to […]
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Into Scottish Creatives caught up with avant provocateur Douglas MacIntyre, one of the key Scottish creative characters to have emerged from the post-punk scene in Scotland. Douglas is heavily involved with Frets Creative which is a creative and artistic space in Strathaven as well as running the independent record label The Creeping Bent Organisation. And
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Scottish singer-songwriter Rory Butler is certainly creating a stir right now and having opened for the likes of Richard Thompson and shared a stage with Paul Weller and Lucy Rose, it’s easy to see why. An appearance on the BBC Quay Sessions led presenter Roddy Hart to state Rory is the most exciting Scottish talent
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Into:Music – Writer’s Choice – Best Album of May 2019 Stray Cats – 40 It’s 26 long years since the last Stray Cats release but the rockabilly titans have returned with an assured album that is well worth the wait for their patient fans. If you’re looking for a change of direction or something a
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Into:Music – Writer’s Choice – Best Album of April 2019 Fat White Family – Serfs Up! It’s fair to say that the likelihood of a third Fat White Family was somewhat dubious following the well-documented implosion of the band post the 2016 release Songs For Our Mothers, with a variety of side projects popping up
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Into:Music – Writer’s Choice – Best Albums of March 2019 Fat Cops – Fat Cops The origins of the Fat Cops band are as unlikely as it is remarkable. In the lead up to the 2014 Scottish independence vote, it seemed there were polar opposite and polemic views everywhere you turned, whether in newspapers, on
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The Tea Street Band released their second studio album earlier this month. Frequency follows up on the band’s self-titled release from 2014. The four-year gap between albums definitely hasn’t made the band lose any of their edge, but just maybe they have gained a little extra swagger with this dazzling electronic soundtrack. The four friends
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1988 saw Metallica with three albums behind them and, following the death of Cliff Burton two years before, with a new bassist in the form of the never-to-be a long-term feature Jason Newsted. Within the band it seemed new ideas were developing and many see this as their last truly ‘metal’ album, the one before
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Many people did not know what to expect upon the release of Paul McCartney’s eighteenth studio solo album, Egypt Station. However, the former Beatle and Wings star did certainly not disappoint which resulted in him gaining his first US Billboard No.1 chart topper since 1982’s Tug of War. The album is musically adventurous and is
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