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Tuesday, February 23 2010

We Kept Ourselves to Ourselves: An Interview with Glasvegas

Proud of their Scottish working-class heritage, acclaimed fuzz-rockers Glasvegas contemplate recording a new album in Los Angeles, taking rock star lessons from Noel Gallagher, and throwing Beethoven into their music just because they can.


Wednesday, January 21 2009

Part 1: AmpLive to Damien Jurado

From AmpLive to Damien Jurado, PopMatters offers up the first batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.


Reviews

Thursday, April 14 2011

Glasvegas: Euphoric /// Heartbreak

An album of generic stadium anthems and art moves, without the personality or art to back them up.


Tuesday, February 3 2009

Glasvegas + Angela McCluskey

Glasvegas was somewhat mechanical and delivered a B-level set featuring B-level versions of A-level material.


Monday, November 17 2008

Glasvegas: Glasvegas

There's not a lick of originality on this debut, but interestingly, that hardly matters.


Blogs

Thursday, September 17 2009

Glasvegas - "It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry" (video / tour dates)

It seems inevitable that if you haven't heard of the Scottish band Glasvegas, you probably will soon. Their self-titled debut album was released in January…


Monday, August 10 2009

Glasvegas - "Daddy's Gone" (Live on Craig Ferguson) (video)

Scotland's Glasvegas dropped by Ferguson's show last Thursday night before making their way to Chicago for Lollapalooza.


Monday, February 2 2009

Glasvegas - "Flowers & Football Tops" (video)

“Dusty” is the best word to describe the video for the third single from Glasvegas’ self-titled album. Some sort of dust storm sweeps in as…


Wednesday, January 7 2009

Glasvegas: 6 January 2009 - New York, Bowery Ballroom

Pictures by Randy Haecker.


News

Tuesday, January 6 2009

Viva Glasvegas: Scottish rockers are fast becoming the next big thing

Glasvegas is moving fast. Three years ago, the Scottish rockers weren't even a band. A year ago, they hadn't even been in a proper recording…


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