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SAY Award 2018: Longlist revealed
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 »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Music
SAY Award: Live at the Longlist – C Duncan, Kobi Onyame and more to perform
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 »| Updated over 5 years ago -
News
Fergus McCreadie wins The SAY Award 2022
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 »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
Music
Scottish Album of the Year Award shortlist revealed
And the award goes to... an album from this newly announced SAY Award shortlist. Tonight the SAY judges have narrowed their longlist of albums competing for ... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
Eight acts to catch at All Points East 2019
With appearances from Björk, The xx, LCD Soundsystem and Young Fathers, All Points East made quite the splash last year with its inaugural instalment at... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Music
Cassette Store Day returns for 2018
Since 2013, music fans have been coming together to hail the glory of the compact audio cassette in the form of Cassette Store Day, and the annual celebratio... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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The 1975 @ SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 12 Jan
Over the past six years, The 1975 have become something of a cultural phenomenon, ascending to global superstardom via three chart-topping albums, a Mercury ... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 3-10 Feb: FLY CLUB at Sub Club & more
Returning to Sub Club for the first time since 2016, FLY CLUB celebrate ten years of partying with this series of meticulously curated club nights. Taking pl... Read more »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill retrospective
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 »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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GoGo Penguin: Under the Influence
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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SAY Award 2021: The Longlist
The 2021 SAY Award will truly be a celebration of Scottish music like no other. All of the albums eligible for this year’s award were released during t... Read more »| Updated about 3 years ago -
Festivals
Why are there so many zombie comedies?
Horror and humour have long been eager movie bedfellows. Scares and laughs co-exist in films as different as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), An... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Music
The Ninth Wave: Under the Influence
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 »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Music
SAY Award 2018: A closer look at the shortlist
When the longlist for the 2018 SAY Award was announced on 1 August we felt an immediate sense of pride for the creative output of Scotland’s music scen... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Music
Record Store Day 2021: Shop Recommendations
Record Store Day is back with not one but two Saturdays (12 Jun and 17 Jul) stuffed with special limited edition releases. We spoke to a few of our favourite... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
Music
The Spook School say goodbye
All great things must come to an end. After eight years and three fantastic albums, sadly, The Spook School have decided to call it quits. "We had ... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
Music
Graham Costello's STRATA: Under the Influence
I often find it very hard to describe my band. Is it jazz? Is it fusion? Is it noise or classically influenced? It’s all those things and more I’... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Music
Spotlight On... King Wine
King Wine have been on the go for almost ten years now, bringing bucketfuls of charisma and video game nostalgia to many a dingy Glasgow basement bar. P... Read more »| Updated about 2 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 22 Feb-1 Mar: GFF
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 »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Music
Gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 9-15 Oct
Gigs in Edinburgh this week Art School Girlfriend @ Sneaky Pete's, 10 OctPolly Mackey brings her atmospheric electronic pop, under her latest guise Art Scho... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Music
Thundercat on Drunk & finding humour in tension
"It’s always weird when you get a bunch of musicians to do something in front of a green screen," Stephen Bruner – better known as bass maestro T... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Festivals
Stinging Songs: Armellodie Records at Unbound
Sometimes the best things in life are simple. For one night only, three bands and three authors will come together in the corner of the Book Festival for a n... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
Music
Rip It Up: A Scottish Music Timeline
The 1950s and 1960s in Scottish Music 1955: Lonnie Donegan’s Rock Island Line is released. Originally recorded by the American blues singer Leadb... Read more »| Updated about 6 years ago -
Festivals
Club to Club 2018: Festival Review
Celebrating its 18th year in existence, Club to Club festival returned to the Italian city of Turin from 1-4 November with another stellar line-up of artists... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
Music
We Deserve Love: Arcade Fire on defying backlash
“I’d much rather that people were talking positively about everything we do, but whenever you put two-and-a-half years of your life into somethin... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
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Kode9 on Escapology and Astro-Darien
It’s no exaggeration to describe Steve Goodman as one of 21st century dance music’s most important figures. Operating as Kode9, Goodman is the fo... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
Music
Scott Hutchison: A Tribute
When the devastating news came on Friday 11 May about our beloved Scott Hutchison I was in disbelief and the truth of it is, I still am. I felt numb. I perso... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Music
The Albums of 2013 (#6): Hookworms – Pearl Mystic (Gringo)
Handling your own personal catharsis is one thing, seeing it written and spoken back to you writ large is quite another. Forget the ‘psych’ tag t... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Music
NETVERK – January 2013
Welcome back to NETVERK for 2013! Netverk provides a monthly guide to free, self-released and independent music, unsigned and untroubled by commercialism, ma... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
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The Albums of 2013 (#1): Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus (ATP)
‘Expectation,’ is a word that crops up a lot in Benjamin Power’s syntax these days. One half of Fuck Buttons, alongside his close friend An... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago