The Misread City

WHY is it that so many of the band we like here at the Misread City -- a site dedicated to West Coast culture -- come from Glasgow, a city w...

ONE of the things we have to do from time to time here is to admit that not all of the finest 21st century culture comes from the West Coas...

RARELY has a band gone from overrated to undersung so quickly. But when the air went out of the "alternative" boom in the mid-...

SUNDAY night I was lucky enough to catch Britfolk guitarist Bert Jansch at Largo. It may've been the most stunning display of acoustic ...

On Sunday morning I was lucky enough to eavesdrop on the commencement at Oxy , my wife's alma mater, and stand at the far edge of a natu...

I'M not sure i can think of another musician who's been powerfully influential on both johnny marr of the smiths and zeppelin-era ji...

EVER since i first heard lloyd cole and the commotions at an impressionable age, i've been crazy for scottish rock n roll and especially...