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"I’ve just moved house." Despite her reputation as an energetic onstage performer, Rachel Aggs tells us she's feeling a bit tired, as she holds the ph... Read more »

Scotland’s seeing a trad boom at the moment – research commissioned by Visit Scotland suggests that 34 per cent of Scots have been listening to t... Read more »

Celebrating its tenth edition this year, Stag & Dagger has become something of a musical institution on the Glasgow music calendar over this past decade.... Read more »

What’s your favourite place to visit?Tenerife. For the last few years we've bookended the panto with a quick week in Tenerife for a bit of winter sun. ... Read more »

“Kelburn has the friendliest vibe of all the festivals I’ve been to. It’s a great place to meet other musicians and get chatting to new peo... Read more »

Possibly Glasgow's only trio of Michaels, Slime City release their debut album on Friday 19 May, and it's loads of fun. Filled with big riffs, laugh-wor... Read more »

As the iconic Scottish indie label Lost Map Records turns ten this year, label boss Johnny Lynch – aka Pictish Trail – has teamed up with seven o... Read more »

Paolo Nutini strolls into our lives again with an Italian breeze and Scottish edge that is only too familiar, and before festival season, Nutini is allowing ... Read more »

It’s day three of this year’s TRNSMT festival and we’re basking in another day of glorious sunshine as Glasgow’s heatwave continues. ... Read more »

Free Love radiate energy. Whether through their ferociously inventive music or exhilarating live shows, the duo of Suzi and Lewis Cook are masters of stirrin... Read more »

It's a curiously overlooked fact that hip-hop has overtaken rock as the most popular style of music on the planet in the last few years, at least if streamin... Read more »

The third edition of Samizdat, Scotland’s film festival dedicated to cinema from Eastern and Central Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, is filled w... Read more »

Generous exhibition spaces at this year's Gray’s School of Art degree show allow for a collection of confident solo presentations from the 2018 graduat... Read more »

Of all the talented young filmmakers working on the Scottish short film scene, the most visually distinctive might be Bryan M. Ferguson. His early work is di... Read more »

Hailey Beavis and Brian Pokora have both been under our spotlight before – Beavis for the solo album she self-released with labelmate Faith Eliott on O... Read more »

What’s your favourite place to visit?The condiments, sauces and pickles aisle of a supermarket. It feels like being in the BFG’s cave of dreams. ... Read more »

Name a god-like carpenter with the initials JC? If you’re a movie disciple the first deity to pop into your head should be John Carpenter, the don of g... Read more »

Riso Club I am obsessed with pretty printed paper things (I too have a fierce eye on the East End Press garlands on Polly's list further down the page) an... Read more »

As we delve into the fourth feature as part of our media partnership with Help Musicians Scotland, following on from conversations with BMX Bandits’ Du... Read more »

Counterflows starts with a scream. A stop-start surge of a grinding, piercing sound somewhere between the internal monologue of a knackered old Dell and a to... Read more »

Callum Easter is a true wonder of the Scottish music scene, with releases on Lost Map Records and Moshi Moshi. Last month he helped open the new live space a... Read more »

Gathered together one afternoon in a busy West End drinking spot, the members of Walt Disco are recounting the chance meeting in Glasgow that led to the band... Read more »

Glasgow Film Festival know how to match a movie with music. Recent highlights from their always vibrant Sound & Vision strand have included a folk concer... Read more »

If, like us, your invitation to Frank Ocean's 30th birthday party seemed to have got lost in the post then indulge in a celebration of ballroom culture at SW... Read more »

To write the story of music in Scotland from the perspective of the people at the very heart of it, we contacted a few of Scotland's most celebrated musician... Read more »

This year has been stranger than fiction. Queerer than science fiction. And SQIFF has revelled in exactly that through its Every Utopia is a Dystopia collect... Read more »

Some things just go together: peanut butter and jam; wine and cheese; salty crisps and an ice cold beer. The union between OK Pal Records and Edinburgh-based... Read more »

The Spice Girls gave us girl power, Beyoncé told us they run the world, and this weekend Because You Are A Girl will continue to show that girls reall... Read more »

What’s your favourite place to visit and why?  My family home in Fife. There’s always roast chicken and we watch quiz shows round the clock... Read more »

Hairband aren't your typical supergroup. Featuring members of Glasgow bands Spinning Coin, Breakfast Muff, Lush Purr and Kaputt, the five-piece are all regul... Read more »