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Joseph's debut album – which received the Scottish Album of the Year Award in June 2015 – topped the poll of more than 30 writers and publication... Read more »

With sold out shows aplenty across the Central Belt this week from the likes of LCD Soundsystem, The National, Sparks, and The Jesus & Mary Chain, we tak... Read more »

Scottish Album of the Year winner Kathryn Joseph is nominated in the Best Live Act category alongside fellow SAY nominees Errors and emerging Highland six-pi... Read more »

Another forward-thinking head-scratcher from the vaults of Chemikal Underground, Sleep and Release elicited genre-bending sloganeering like ‘dream meta... Read more »

When placing Idlewild’s sophomore album 100 Broken Windows into the context of Scottish albums of the decade, it becomes all too clear how much the mus... Read more »

Last month FOUND launched their debut LP 'FOUND Can Move,' on their own Surface Pressure Records. With their first single Mullokian playlisted by Radio 1 and... Read more »

I feel a bit awkward telling you my 'Scottish Album of the Decade'. I'm an avid record collector – pretty much every penny I earn is ploughed into the ... Read more »

Live music in Glasgow Loyle Carner @ Garage, 3 Feb The South London MC (and part-time food educator) returns with tracks from his new album Yesterday'... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh Vukovi @ The Mash House, 24 May Angsty Glasgow four-piece Vukovi head east with tracks from their self-titled debut album. We ca... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh this week Blanck Mass @ Summerhall, 22 AugBenjamin John Power was once described by his Fuck Buttons cohort Andrew Hung as the ‘fuck... Read more »

If 1998's Music has the Right to Children was the record that opened up modern electronic music to whole new vistas of possibility – both in terms of i... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh Mac DeMarco @ Usher Hall, 30 Aug A+ songwriter and loveable goofball, Mac DeMarco pitches up at the Usher Hall tonight to put a ... Read more »

Live music in Edinburgh Her's @ Sneaky Pete's, 16 MayThe Liverpool dreampop duo (and their Pierce Brosnan-decorated drum machine) have been making waves sin... Read more »

When I was thinking of a few good reasons why this was my pick for the Scottish album of the decade, I realised it had nothing to to do with it being 'The Be... Read more »

Admiral Fallow Indie folk sextet Admiral Fallow have been furrowing away since 2007 under the guidance of singer-songwriter Louis Abbott. His heart-on-sleev... Read more »

Not even King Creosote's mother owns everything in his discography, as it's filled with dozens of rare Fence Collective releases and CD-Rs. But if this isn't... Read more »

Arab Strap’s previous effort, 1999’s Elephant Shoe, did not receive the critical success the band had enjoyed since its inception. Two years late... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh Martha Ffion @ Sneaky Pete's, 20 JulMartha Ffion is the musical project of Glasgow-based Irish singer-songwriter Claire Martha Ffion McKay... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh this week ULTRAS @ Voodoo Rooms, 27 SepGav Prentice brings his new project ULTRAS to Edinburgh to headline the latest night from ... Read more »

Now naturally, you don’t set about squeezing an entire country’s musical fruits into a few hundred words without a whole lot slopping over the si... Read more »

Live music in Edinburgh Paramore @ Usher Hall, 22 JunHayley Williams and co have taken a decisive step into synth-pop territory on new album After... Read more »

Live music in Glasgow Modern Baseball @ SWG3, 16 Feb Lynchpins in the recent emo revival, the Philadelphia crew return to Scotland hot on the heels of last... Read more »

Live Music in Edinburgh 47 Soul @ Studio 24, Fri 24 Feb 47SOUL is an electro Arabic dabke band who formed in Amman, Jordan in 2013. They’ve created t... Read more »

Into the Woods wasn’t the Arab Strap guitarist’s first album – the quixotically titled 5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine snuck ... Read more »

Live music in Edinburgh Withered Hand + A Singer of Songs @ Sneaky Pete's, 4 MayIn September of last year, Barcelona label Son Canciones arranged for Edinbu... Read more »

Alright, I admit it, when The Campfire Headphase dropped in 2005 I was one of the fans who was up in arms about BoC's new sound. Where were the beats? What w... Read more »

Gigs in Glasgow Cameron Avery @ King Tut's, 11 Apr  The Tame Impala bassist and Pond co-founder presents tracks from his "muscular and cinematic" ... Read more »

In Scotland we like to boast about how brilliant we are at just about everything. We invented pretty much the whole modern world, including television, the t... Read more »

VoxBox, Edinburgh VoxBox are gearing up for their annual street party-style RSD celebrations on St Stephen Street with the help of Edinburgh label Gerry Lov... Read more »

On the face of it, their product is hardly revolutionary. Yet, for the past year and a half, The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit has been the album... Read more »