Song, by Toad —  Well well, quite a few firsts for me last night at the Picture House.  Not serious ones, but well, nevertheless… I hadn’t seen Mark Lanegan solo before (although I have seen him play a gig with Isobel Campbell at the Liquid Rooms a good ... more info

Guardian Music — Reading/Leeds FestivalIt's more than 20 years now since the Reading/Leeds festival entered its modern era, but the event's image remains the same: a goth eating a baked potato sitting by a fire made of plastic cups. A hard rock festival with occasion... more info

Guardian Music — Leeds Metropolitan UniversityMark Lanegan has had an almost textbook outlaw passage to the black heart of rock'n'roll: heroin and crack addiction, homelessness, rehab and imprisonment and a road accident that almost killed him at the age of 20. Then,... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The atmospheric baritone. Next to Nick Cave and Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan possesses one of the few contemporary voices capable of a kind of subliminal storytelling that exists outside the realm of pure vocabulary. It’s a vocal delivery that carri... more info

Stereogum — A year and a half ago, I had a perfectly lovely telephone conversation with Isobel Campbell, the former Belle & Sebastian member who has recorded three ultra-satisfying albums of Nancy Sinatra pastiche with Mark Lanegan. And during that conversation,... more info

KEXP Seattle — In the time that’s elapsed since his last solo record, Mark Lanegan has been busy. He’s collaborated with Isobel Campbell, joined Greg Dulli in The Gutter Twins, guested on albums by Queens of the Stone Age, Twilight Singers and UNKLE, an... more info

NME — The pair performed four songs at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles more info

Scotsman.com — Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Grand Ole Opry, Glasgow **** more info

Guardian Music — Platform, GlasgowDressed in khaki shorts and loose white shirt, streaks of silver in his beard, Aidan Moffat's feeling his age tonight. "I've got a sair back from touring, years of bending down picking up bottles," grumbles Falkirk's vulgar versifier... more info

Guardian Music — Snubbed by Scotland's jazz scene, guitar virtuoso Bill Wells has teamed up with ex-Arab Strap man Aidan Moffat for a panoramic meditation on life and death'I like to think I can do things over a very wide musical range," Bill Wells says. "Even if you... more info