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From the Archives

December 22, 2004

311 Collab With Rookie

Switchfoot, Our Lady Peace, Mogwai, others team with unknown Daniel Victor
August 3, 2001

Louder Than Life

Some things you won't find on a Mogwai record: lyrics, verses and choruses. What you will find: some of the most exciting music being made today.
March 3, 1999

Mogwai Concoct Rock Trance

Glaswegian Quintet Captivate New York Audience
March 2, 1999

Mogwai

Bowery Ballroom, New York, Feb. 22, 1999

Recordings and Reviews

Mr. Beast

Guitar-wielding Glaswegian five-piece Mogwai have long delighted in the seeming contradiction of playing somber, go-deaf-to-this noise rock while peddling bitingly funny slogancentric T-shirts (BLUR ARE SHITE, proclaimed a Brit-pop-era classic). These twin sensibilities come together in the humorous...

2006 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Happy Songs For Happy People

2003

Rock Action

2001

Come On Die Young

1999

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Biography

The fire-breathing Scottish space-rockers in Mogwai build spectral mood music out of noise guitar, doing structurally basic quiet/loud/quiet instrumentals that are nonetheless charged with feeling and beauty even at earsplitting volume. They level their audiences in concert, but they make it work on record, too, scattering their work across EPs and singles and, in the case of Kicking a Dead Pig

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