The Dirty Dozen: Dope Body survey June's singles
Prior to a night of fierce sweating, Baltimore noise-rockers (and March 'Track of the Month' champions) Dope Body try to muster some love for this month’s offerings, and debate whether...

Prior to a night of fierce sweating, Baltimore noise-rockers (and March 'Track of the Month' champions) Dope Body try to muster some love for this month’s offerings, and debate whether...

Nursing epic hangovers from the night before, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead's Jason Reece and Jamie Miller debate whether they need pure punk rock or...

We join post-hardcore champs United Fruit in their Glasgow rehearsal space as they take a break from demoing album number two to pan for pop hits. There will be dub...

Requesting we keep the identities of the artists secret (“I’m going to try and guess”), Julian Corrie aka Miaoux Miaoux slips on his critic’s hat. “This reviewing gets harder as...

Former Ride vocalist and guitarist Mark Gardener sets about December’s singles along with the issue of overblown chorus syndrome and the repetitious strains of Manc rock

Ahead of this month's Scottish tour with Bill Wells, noted no-nonsense 2am Twitter pop critic Aidan Moffat pops by to give the November singles the long-form review treatment. Yes: we...

Recovering at his Edinburgh home from a nasty chest infection, Dan ‘Withered Hand’ Willson dutifully bunkers down to the healing sounds of October’s single releases

Adopting some kind of variant on the ‘snog, marry, avoid’ critique, Amanda Palmer takes on September’s singles. Expect sex, nudity and strawberries.

Veering from constructive criticism to outright disgust, Alejandra Deheza and Benjamin Curtis of School of Seven Bells have a good cop/bad cop gander at August's sixties-indebted promo pile.

Hailing from hardcore punk superpower OFF!, Keith 'original Black Flag vocalist' Morris and Dimitri 'played guitar on a Bond theme' Coats carry a special license to say whatever the hell...

Still Flyin' – Spirits (Highline, 4 Jun)Dean McClure: Described as 'San Francisco's favourite hammjammers.' I'm putting San Francisco and 'hammjammers' together and drawing my own conclusions.James Allan: It does sound...

With his two bandmates otherwise engaged, the gargantuan responsibility of reviewing the month’s singles rests squarely on the shoulders of Phillip from Glasgow trio PAWS. Can he withstand the terrible...

With some of the most generous Dirty Dozen scores dished out in recent memory, it takes a lot to displease Martin John Henry and the Permanent Skelfs...

Jenny Reeve of Strike the Colours and Sparrow and the Workshop's Jill O'Sullivan unite to assess the month's singles

Remember Remember speak their minds on the February singles

Mike Palmer and Sean Smith of We Were Promised Jetpacks exercise diplomacy on the January singles...

We invite Santa and his helpers (A.K.A. Joe, Ian and Johnny from Take A Worm For A Walk Week) to rate and slate December’s singles. Will the yuletide season instil...

With his debut album finally rearing its cosmic noggin this month, Clean George IV sizes up the competition with bandmate and Aberfeldy frontman Riley Briggs keeping him in check

Rebecca Taylor and Charles Watson, AKA Slow Club, take time out from seducing Scottish crowds to reacquaint themselves with the good old CD single

Coercing Chad VanGaalen, self-pronounced 'worst critic in the world', into dissecting the month’s singles is no easy task