Soft, loud, soft. Mogwai's irrepressible wall of sound has been wailing out of amplifiers for three decades, unbowed, undented by fluctuations in pop culture. Undefeated. The Scottish post-rockers are ...
Grad school meant hours and hours of reading by myself. Music kept me company, but it had to be a certain kind of music. Lyrics would distract me from my studies, so almost anything with vocals was ...
"It's basically the soundtrack of my life." Greenwich Ent. has unveiled the official trailer for a vibrant and inspiring music documentary film titled Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound, arriving to ...
The colors of Mogwai‘s volcanic explosions on the cover of The Bad Fire, the gloomy Glaswegians’ 11th record (by their count), are bright red, yellow, white, and periwinkle. Anyone who’s followed the ...
Mogwai may be named after a cute and fuzzy Joe Dante critter, but the sounds they make are anything but. The Scottish band makes kaiju-sized music: sweeping, occasionally brutal post-rock sounds that ...
We venture to the darker angels of our nature this week on New Music Friday Videos with 4 cuts from Johnny Cash, Chet Baker, and PJ Harvey. Mogwai surprised everyone with 2021’s As the Love Continues ...
Mogwai wrapped up the North American leg of their Bad Fire World Tour Sunday night at the Echo Lounge & Music Hall in Dallas, marking their first return since 2019 and their eighth performance in the ...
The Scottish post-rock outfit Mogwai’s been releasing albums for the past 20 years. Mogwai’s lively approach to its music and its vivid, atmospheric quality works great for soundtracks. It also, as ...
Mogwai (left-right): Stuart Braithwaite, Barry Burns, Dominic Aitchison and Martin Bulloch One word keeps cropping up during our interview with Glasgow four-piece Mogwai – and that word is "weird". It ...
Mogwai are loud. Really loud. Permanent-hearing-damage loud. “I think people in the audience should wear earplugs,” warns guitarist Stuart Braithwaite. “The point of the volume is to feel your body ...
Later this month Mogwai will celebrate their 20th anniversary with shows at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom and London’s Roundhouse. That the Scottish quintet has held on for this long is laudable: Post ...
The guitarist recalls how Arab Strap gave Scottish musicians a sense of national pride, the excess of his band’s early years and why he’s still fighting for independence Read an exclusive extract of ...