Digital | Feature
Mark Daniels: Earlier this year I was delighted to be invited by BAFTA Scotland to be a judge for their 2009 awards. For the first time there were to be three disti...
Art | Preview
Becca Pottinger: As one of the 11 new spaces at this year’s EAF, Sierra Metro is making its inaugural show count. In keeping with the sculpture trend awash over ...
Music | Preview | New Blood
Milo McLaughlin: This month in Edinburgh local DIY promoters Tracer Trails, The Gentle Invasion and Trampoline (as well as local independent music retailers Avalanche ...
Digital | Preview
Mark Daniels: Digital culture is pervasive and ever evolving. The rules are broken and remade every day. In Scotland the Alt-w Fund has supported experimentation wi...
Music | Film | Preview
Michael Hunter: One of the more interesting shows at this year's international film festival, Playing With the Past is nothing less than a good rummage through the tr...
Music | Feature | Live Review | New Blood
Alexis Somerville & Finbarr Bermingham: The Great Escape: billed by organisers as “Europe’s leading festival for new music”. 300 bands, 34 venues, 3 days (well, it’s ...
Records | Album Review
Jamie Scott: Limbo have been promoting a weekly night in the plush setting of Edinburgh's Voodoo Rooms for well over a year now, showcasing an unerring menagerie o...
Music | Feature
Milo McLaughlin: Jeffrey Lewis - Willamsburg Will Oldham Horror This month's podcast features exclusive extracts from our interview with Will Oldham, aka Bonnie 'Prin...
Records | Single Review
Nick Mitchell: Apparently designed to give the lie to those who say the Scottish music scene is too ponderous or introspective, Edinburgh collective FOUND are specia...
Music | Preview
Euan Ferguson: De Rosa versus Found, Chemikal Underground versus the Fence Collective, Glasgow versus Edinburgh, poignant and delicate melodic folk-pop versus eclect...
Euan Ferguson: It feels like rasping Found frontman Ziggy, the drinking man’s Paolo Nutini, scrawled this inappropriately acerbic anti-love ballad to an unsuit...
Music | Feature | Label
Milo McLaughlin: Given the shared ethos and sound of the artists involved, Fence could almost be classed as a sub-genre in itself. For example, there's no doubt that F...
Lifestyle | Music | Art | Heads Up | Preview
Lucy Martin: Acclaimed as 'Scotland's strangest band' experimental pop band FOUND are living up to expectations by involving themselves in Chinese Music at Midsumm...
Live Review
RJ Thomson: Dysfunctional is an overused word, particularly in relation to individuals, families, bands – anything that involves humans seems to qualify on ...
Music | Live Review
Finbarr Bermingham: FOUND have just released their second album to glowing reviews. Make Model have just signed to EMI and their debut album is one of the most eagerly an...
