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Oct 07, 2008

Glasvegas @ Rock and Roll Hotel

This was the wrong show to have forgotten to bring earplugs. Scotland’s newest highly hyped export, Glasvegas, are not afraid to be very, very loud. They’ve got fuzzy shoegaze guitar riffs that would make their countrymen in The Jesus and Mary Chain proud, and the audience-filling charm that would make bands like the amazing but overlooked Twilight Sad jealous. Even those of us with throbbing eardrums found the band magnetic enough to overlook the pain…

 
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