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10) Confidence Man – Confident Music for Confident People "Melbourne-based Confidence Man are a band who know exactly what they want; with a fucking e... Read more »

At the end of October we reached out to our music team, asking for their top ten albums of the year in order of preference; from 35 submissions we were ... Read more »

There’s nothing more complicated than your own reflection. All Mirrors, Angel Olsen’s fourth album, builds a warped maze out of memories, fantasi... Read more »

There was an inevitability to the more permanent musical pairing of Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert following the success of Car Song from Hubbert’s 2012 T... Read more »

Breaking out as an almost instant underground star with his 2012 mixtape Kings and Them, a submerged, murky cellar of mangled hip-hop and industrial wooze, m... Read more »

For a band that has transcended a decade, Peggy Sue’s musical output has remained fairly consistent. Their debut, 2010’s Fossils and Other Phanto... Read more »

You wouldn’t know, on the face of it, that this is the first Bob Mould record since he swapped San Francisco for Berlin. Surely his longtime home in th... Read more »

Before filing this review, a quick refresh of the Instagram feed happens to show up the latest post from Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power. Alongside a fairly inn... Read more »

Nothing makes you want to boogie while reflecting on hyper-capitalism quite like Shopping. The London/Glasgow trio have been happily providing this service s... Read more »

Sometimes when an artist comes out with a kind of knowing, retro sound, there's a risk of them sounding like they're looking backwards. Natalie Prass has alm... Read more »

Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never is almost a household name by now. He is a curatorial necromancer, upending interpretations of the retro, upcycl... Read more »

Grosvenor House Hotel, London, 2006 As my three-year stint as a judge on the Mercury Prize ended, it seemed like the last days of Rome for the album and the... Read more »

There’s plenty of high-topped sneakers and sailor tattoos on show in Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom as New Jersey’s The Gaslight Anthem arri... Read more »

The Scottish Album of the Year Award, Scotland’s most popular and prestigious music prize, returns for its seventh year in 2018 and is now looking for ... Read more »

The SAY Award has today announced the acts playing its annual Live at the Longlist, at The Queen’s Hall Edinburgh on 26 July, and it’s a mouth-wa... Read more »

The records fighting it out to be crowned Scottish Album of the Year have been unveiled tonight at King Tut’s in Glasgow. “This year’s long... Read more »

Last Step – Sleep[Planet Mu, 2012]This an album by Aaron Funk [Venetian Snares]. It’s a little more chilled than some of his other albums bu... Read more »

Club nights aside, it's generally regarded as unwise to kick off your live set at the back end of 10.30pm – particularly if you opened your doors hours... Read more »

Today, the 20 artists competing for The SAY (Scottish Album of the Year) Award has been cut down to ten, with the official shortlist revealed. Nine of the ac... Read more »

Following on from winning the award for Best Newcomer at the 2016 Scottish Alternative Music Awards, it's been a steady upward trajectory for the Glasgow ban... Read more »

Two days on from the rescheduled date for the 2022 Mercury Prize ceremony, which saw Little Simz scoop the top prize for her outstanding 2021 album Sometimes... Read more »

There are several sides to Sharon Van Etten tonight, whose growth as an artist is as evident in her live performance as it is across her five studio albums. ... Read more »

To see Mark Lanegan is to realise that this is a man who was born ninety years too late. The Seattle singer was born to be a blues man; the type of gritty ro... Read more »

Part of Glasgow Film Festival's Sound & Vision strand, The Unfilmables will see a group of musicians responding to the greatest films never made. BA... Read more »

It’s been 20 years since Lauryn Hill released her seminal debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill on 25 August 1998, and, unbelievably, it&rsq... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh this week Moon Duo @ La Belle Angèle, 31 Jan2017 was a busy year for Moon Duo, releasing not one but two albums – Occult... Read more »

It's a festival-heavy summer, but new kids on the block Aye Festival are still managing to stand out from the crowd. This inaugural festival from the team be... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh this week Jorja Smith @ The Liquid Room, 6 FebFirst up this week in Edinburgh is one of Drake's pals (but let's face it who hasn't Drizzy ... Read more »

Resident Advisor called it “an impossibly cheery nu-disco track that might be 2018's Inspector Norse”, referencing Todd Terje’s 2012 hit; M... Read more »

What first springs to mind when you think of Portugal? A lot of food and drink-based thoughts come in thick and fast for us: pastel de nata, piri piri chicke... Read more »