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MIKE D & AD-ROCK TO PUBLISH THE HISTORY OF THE BEASTIE BOYSWe'll have to wait until 2015 to read it, but news emerged this week that Faber & Faber in... Read more »

We dive into the listings to bring you this essential guide to gigs in Manchester this week plus the latest news on festivals, tour announcements and more. T... Read more »

FOUND have just released their second album to glowing reviews. Make Model have just signed to EMI and their debut album is one of the most eagerly anticipat... Read more »

Following the spectacular Deep Time event at EIF 2016, the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival kicks off with 59 Productions' latest outdoor production Blo... Read more »

Everyone knows the story about Oasis' breakthrough 14 years ago: they were spotted at King Tut's by Creation Records boss Alan McGee, playing a 20 minute set... Read more »

It's been a year of contrasts for Frightened Rabbit – from praise in the spring for their most ambitious record yet, Painting of a Panic Attack, and en... Read more »

Paisley on a wet Wednesday night doesn't sound the most glamorous of settings for what's supposed to be the most prestigious event in the Scottish music indu... Read more »

A frightened rabbit freezes in front of car headlights, but Frightened Rabbit didn’t freeze when the musical spotlight was shone on them. One of the mo... Read more »

Supermoon is the latest group formed by Neil Pennycook, who became one of Edinburgh’s best known local artists thanks to his previous band, Meursault. ... Read more »

First up, Crystal Castles, fresh off the back of a positively received new album that suggests they aren't the flash in the pan act some people once seen the... Read more »

Back in 2002 the LuckyMe collective had, in their own words, “the common desire to create hip-hop in a city where at the time, there was no hip-hop cul... Read more »

PLAYSTATION 4: ULTIMATE PLAY?Although no official release date has been announced (beyond 'holidays 2013'), the buzz around Sony's Playstation 4 reached Twit... Read more »

Ask around the Scottish music scene and you'll learn that Robert 'RM' Hubbert has become something of a legend. A master captivator of crowds and equally inv... Read more »

The roots of the Premeditation compilations go back to one fundamental question that the five of us in Predestination Records posed to ourselves nearly six y... Read more »

Idlewild have released the video for their new single Every Little Means Trust, featuring How To Train Your Dragon and This is the End star Jay Baruchel. Th... Read more »

Further to news earlier this year that Scottish indie rock progenitors The Vaselines were in the process of writing new material to bolster their 19 song cat... Read more »

EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2013 PROGRAMMEThe Edinburgh International Festival opens on 9 August and runs until 1 September, welcoming artists... Read more »

Despite having a meagre population and more than our fair share of poverty, Scotland is undoubtedly a disproportionately productive little land. That stateme... Read more »

You may recognise members of this Glasgow-based outfit from former bands such as The Yawns, Mirror Parties and Copy Haho. Drawn from places near and far to G... Read more »

The music industry is a very fickle business. Ten years ago (yes it was that long), young band The Bluetones stormed onto the scene with a number one debut a... Read more »

CROWDFUND THE MO' WAX ARCHIVE PROJECTOne of the quintissential labels of the 90s, which helped to define the emergent sound of 'trip-hop' by releasing the ea... Read more »

Formed in Glasgow by core members Paul McGuire and Allan "McDibet" MacDonald in 2006, grindcore outfit Cerebral Bore have worked tirelessly to forge a name f... Read more »

Any title that dedicates a lot of time and effort to music can only be as good as the groups and solo artists that it writes about. We've been lucky to have ... Read more »

2006 and 2007 saw dubstep reach omnipresence. Infecting other genres like a virus, and with a colossal international fanbase, its current renown verges on as... Read more »

If you’re looking for summertime soul, there are few safer hands than Lalah Hathaway, daughter of Chicago legend Donny. Having scooped a Grammy this ye... Read more »

TURNER PRIZE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEDThe shortlist for the Turner Prize was announced last week, with recognition for celebrated Glasgow-based artist David Shrigl... Read more »

French Wives formed nearly four years ago, when founding duo Stuart Dougan (vocals, guitars) and Scott MacPherson (guitars, vocals) met online. “It&rsq... Read more »

It's pretty sickening: my band Divorce and London's Comanechi are in the middle of a musical love-in. The romance started by sharing stages in London and Sco... Read more »

In the news...Glaswegian hip hop producer OJ LOOPZ has just completed a song featuring rap veteran and underground legend Sean Price. Price's critically accl... Read more »

Since Young Fathers won the Mercury Music Prize in 2014, it feels like every other music critic in the western hemisphere is suddenly an expert on Scottish h... Read more »