Music | Preview
Lauren Mayberry: Following a successful all-day event back in May, Sick Kids Sunday returns with another jam-packed session of alternative indie, acoustic folk and Ame...
Music | Feature
Barry Burns: The album which immediately comes to my mind as Scottish Album of the Decade is 2009's Prevention by De Rosa. I remember my first time watching them p...
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Gordon Bruce: The discerning music fan will either need marathon stamina or the ability to pull off a convincing sickie for the month of May, because across Aberdee...
Records | Album Review
Darren Carle: How fitting that the artwork to De Rosa’s second album references that of their debut Mend, being as they are a band acutely aware of history an...
Music | Feature | Label
Darren Carle: “Sugar sure, kandy pop, just don’t let the music stop.” Never underestimate a good pop song, and Kandy Pop by Scottish disco-rockers...
Music | Feature | New Blood
Darren Carle: Critical acclaim and commercial success rarely go hand in hand. But, as a shall we say, ‘discerning’ music fan, you’ll already know ...
Lifestyle | Music | Heads Up | Preview
Euan Ferguson: Ever since Geldof and co assembled the cream of the 80s for Live Aid 23 years ago, charity and music have gone hand-in-hand. We’ve been spoilt f...
Euan Ferguson: De Rosa versus Found, Chemikal Underground versus the Fence Collective, Glasgow versus Edinburgh, poignant and delicate melodic folk-pop versus eclect...
Music | Live Review
Darren Carle: Despite their gruff beards, burly physiques and trucker hats, Woodenbox (***) clearly know a good-time country pop tune when it rears its toothy face....
Simon Hay: Time to put the beer down and take it all in. Former Arab Strapper Aidan John Moffat, however, will not be spilling a drop; the Falkirk born poet and ...
Barry Burns: Mogwai's Barry Burns walks us through five of the bands who have helped influence and sculpt the Glasgow quintet into the aural beast we fear today. ...
Billy Hamilton: Forget Franz or The Fratellis, De Rosa were Scotland's shining light of 2006. Debut record 'Mend' was an engorging patriotic triumph; delicately blend...
Billy Hamilton: There must be something in the water. What other explanation is there for Scotland's present abundance of poetic and poignant guitar bands? With the r...
