Ten years ago Mogwai were at the vanguard of the Scottish acts pouring across the border. Now, they’re here to lead the counterattack against the Yanks…

This is the most exhilarating Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have seemed for some time, and while those preferring the band’s slower, more sombre numbers leave Hammersmith feeling short changed, for us who came to dance the set’s a sweaty success…

Seasoned veterans as they now are, Death Cab For Cutie handle the partisan Electric Ballroom crowd with ease and aplomb. The bigger questions though, as the band look to complete global domination, are still to be answered…

19 is riddled with poorly executed attempts at realising enormous promise, but tonight there are no errors; the only signs there might be come from Adele herself as she skitters about clearly wrapped in the grasp of trepidation…

The spooked 'Introduction' begins a complete playing of Tindersticks' new record, The Hungry Saw. The majority of this, it must be said, is fantastic…

Los Angeles' HEALTH are incredible tonight, somehow even tighter than they were when they visited the UK last year, and with their giant of a drummer demonstrating just how valuable an asset he is to this music…

Tonight at the Carling Academy, we're stepping back, back in time. As this cavernous black box spins back through the musical universe, like a sweaty TARDIS with more expensive beer, we appear to have landed next to a Top of the Pops stage circa 1989…

Despite needless excess, there’s something to be said for a performer who leaps into the crowd to take snapshots of himself with the audience. No matter what you think about Gonzales, he’s certainly hard to forget…