Scotland Archives

Midge Ure – Live at The Royal Albert Hall 04.10.23 (Live Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 5, 2024

There are few artists as fascinating and accomplished as Midge Ure. Playing music professionally for the better part of five decades, many of those years Ure has been a part of bands. From the Glam Rock act Silk and the Punk Rock leaning PVC2, to ... Read More

Nina Nesbitt – Mountain Music (Album review)

Nina MendeNina MendeSeptember 27, 2024

Just two years removed from releasing the album Älskar, the young, talented Nina Nesbitt is back with her new offer, Mountain Music. Her first through the independent label Apple Tree Records, Mountain Music arrives on September 27, 2024. This being her fourth overall full-length studio ... Read More

The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes (Album Review)

ALfie Vera MellaALfie Vera MellaMarch 16, 2024

The influence of The Jesus and Mary Chain on Shoegaze, Noise Pop, and the entire Alternative Rock can never be overstated. The psychedelic and psychotic guitar noises beneath the cool and calm vocal interplay of the brothers William and Jim Reid became the template for ... Read More

Simple Minds – Acoustic in Concert (Blu-ray & CD Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockFebruary 13, 2024

Scotland’s Simple Minds are perhaps one of the most significant bands from the new Pop movement of the 1980s. In fact, their 1982 album New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) was an artistic inspiration to many, including U2! All this said, Simple Minds contributes go far and ... Read More

Simple Minds - New Gold Dream – Live From Paisley album cover

Simple Minds – New Gold Dream – Live From Paisley Abbey (Live Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockNovember 13, 2023

Hands down, Scotland’s Simple Minds are in the upper echelon of bands to emerge from the UK New Wave scene during the 1980s. Forming in 1977, Simple Minds would go onto massive success with their 1985 album Once Upon a Time which featured such hits ... Read More

Interview – Clare Grogan of Altered Images

CrypticRockCrypticRockSeptember 22, 2023

Among the many talented UK bands to emerge onto the Post-Punk/ New Wave scene in the early ’80s, there was a little band out of Scotland called Altered Images. Led by Vocalist Clare Grogan, they were unique, young, and ambitious, who would hit big with ... Read More

Scotland

Midge Ure – Live at The Royal Albert Hall 04.10.23 (Live Album Review)

Nina Nesbitt – Mountain Music (Album review)

The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes (Album Review)

Simple Minds – Acoustic in Concert (Blu-ray & CD Review)

Simple Minds – New Gold Dream – Live From Paisley Abbey (Live Album Review)

Interview – Clare Grogan of Altered Images

Midge Ure – Live at The Royal Albert Hall 04.10.23 (Live Album Review)

Nina Nesbitt – Mountain Music (Album review)

The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes (Album Review)

Simple Minds – Acoustic in Concert (Blu-ray & CD Review)

Simple Minds – New Gold Dream – Live From Paisley Abbey (Live Album Review)

Interview – Clare Grogan of Altered Images

This Week In Horror Movie History – Stigmata (1999)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Flash Gordon (1980)

This Week in Horror Movie History – Visiting Hours (1982)

Developing Artist Showcase – Vipërwitch

Developing Artist Showcase – Vermilia

Developing Artist Showcase – Black Smoke Trigger

Interview – Clayne Crawford & Summer Shelton

Interview – Bishop Briggs

Interview – Henry Thomas & Sarah Lind

The Native Howl – Sons of Destruction (Album Review)

The The – Ensoulment (Album Review)

Blood Star (Movie Review)