Blog: The Village Voice: Sound of the City

Last week's prediction : Japanese Motors NME-boosted Scottish quartet Glasvegas got the UK hysteria treatment last year, hailed as the next Oasis/Arctic Monkeys/J&MC/MBV/etc. by the dudes who give out such designations every five minutes or so. Last year's single " Daddy's Gone ," which pumped them into the shape they're in now, is an almost inconceivably agonistic muddle involving a tremendously thick Scottish accent and shaggy dog story about Daddy going out for cigarettes or whatever and never returning. ( NME : "The love between a young man and his [...]