Mogwai frontman Stuart Braithwaite has paid tribute to Ron Asheton - The Stooges guitarist who was found dead at his home yesterday (January 6).

The economy's been tricky everywhere, even Scrooge McDuck's homeland, so when the Twilight Sad went on tour with fellow Scots Mogwai, they put together the Goo-referencing The Twilight Sad Killed My Parents And Hit The Road, a limited-edition collection of covers, live tracks, and instrumentals to help fund the trip. The quartet takes on the Smi...

The Estrella Damm Primavera Club festival will return to Spain for another year, and for the first time, the festival will take place simultaneously at three venues each in Barcelona and Madrid. The fest goes down December 10-13.Playing Primavera Club 2008 will be the Thermals, Mogwai (DJing in Barcelona only), Deerhoof, the Dodos, Isobel Campbe...

With their dates in support of Mogwai starting tonight (October 27), the Twilight Sad have made the gigs more enticing by bringing along a new, limited edition release called The Twilight Sad Killed My Parents and Hit the Road. The record collects instrumentals, live tracks, and covers, some of which are previously unreleased. Those covers inclu...

Mogwai celebrated the closing leg of their UK tour by playing a rare encore at London Hammersmith Apollo last night (October 24) - and then hosting a huge aftershow party.