Primal Scream is a tradition at Harvard University that forms part of the streaking at educational institutions. At midnight on the last night of reading period and before final exams begin, students ...

However, well over 20 years after their last great album and under the guidance of producer David Holmes, Primal Scream have finally escaped the doldrums and hit their sweet spot again – which is ...

Here’s a simple truth to help you decide whether this one’s for you: this will not be your favourite Primal Scream album, but there’s a slim chance it might make your Top 5 on a good day. For a band ...

Which is basically all you need to actually enough to carry it off, and be one. His band Primal Scream have always been shape-shifters in this manner, but this new shape sounds more them than they ...

Last week, The Cure rose from the grave to run us a warm bath of gothic solace. Now Primal Scream are back with Come Ahead, a ridiculously funky stew of a record that all but laces your Gazelles ...

The singer recently addressed the subject of class in a statement accompanying the announcement of Primal Scream’s latest album, Come Ahead, which was released this week. “I find myself in the ...

Where early Primal Scream channelled the psychedelic sixties, their 12th album draws on Motown and early 70s Philadelphia soul. It’s as if the Delfonics had grown up in the Glasgow tenements ...

He left the following year to concentrate on his own band, Primal Scream, who signed to Creation Records ... I didn’t have the grades to go to university, so towards the end of my time at King’s Park ...

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The risk-reward ratio should be volatile, not predictable. Few bands have expressed this volatility as much as Primal Scream. Mocked as “Primal Tap” when they emerged from Glasgow in the 1980s ...

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie has accused Blur’s bassist Alex James of ‘social climbing’. The frontman, 63, has long been outspoken about his working-class Glaswegian perspective and ...

‘Circus Of Life’ can be ranked among the Scream’s finest psych wig-outs and album highlight ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’ ironically puts a lost capitalist hellscape to rights with a really ...