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Beth Orton's latest album Sugaring Season was well received when we reviewed it back in September last year – it is worth remembering, too, t... Read more »

When his wife Joy Davidson died after three years of marriage, C.S. Lewis recorded his grief in a series of journals, published pseudonymously in the early 1... Read more »

Forget April, November is the cruellest month. The encroaching consumerist spend-fest that is Xmas approaches (we refuse to call it Christmas, not this ... Read more »

It's June! With the festival season well and truly under way in Europe, and reports trickling in from Primavera and other gatherings, it's time to start gett... Read more »

  Deafheaven are one of the most notable bands to emerge from the latest wave of American black metal, let alone the San Fr... Read more »

We start off in Glasgow with the visit of the multi-talented Madlib. Working with some of the most talented names in modern hip-hop over the years, releasing... Read more »

On 2 May, all-female post-punk innovators Savages come to Glasgow’s SWG3. Anticipation is building for their debut album Silence Yourself, due out on 6... Read more »

If there's a reason to celebrate – rather than mourn – the dying days of summer, it's that the month of September usually sees the inner-city gig... Read more »

As one half of London-based hip hop collective Task Force's sibling leadership, Chester P has already carved a niche following with his g... Read more »

December traditionally marks a quieter moment in the clubbing calendar, as our attentions turn away from warehouses towards awkward festivities, DVD box sets... Read more »

Having pioneered many of the DJ techniques we take for granted to this day, Joseph Saddler, or Grandmaster Flash if you will, has assured his place in the hi... Read more »

For over thirty years now, The B-52's (O2 ABC, 12 Aug) have poised themselves as the ultimate intergalactic, surf-pop, party band. It’s a notion that h... Read more »

The month of Christmas often offers slim pickings, gig-wise, what with everyone saving cash to participate in the annual consumer-fest, or conserving their u... Read more »

Trying to encapsulate the sprawling career of Todd Rundgren (O2 ABC, 6 Jun) is a particularly difficult task. Perhaps best known for eternal pop hi... Read more »

The Bones of What You Believe, the debut album by Scottish synth-pop trio CHVRCHES, has topped the official BAMS (Scottish Blogs and Music Sites) 2013 poll, ... Read more »

Aside from enigmatic front-man Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins are near unrecognisable as a line-up for those who first came to the band via th... Read more »

December wastes no time in getting up and moving; the first day of the month takes us back to 1988 when the Happy Mondays released second album&nbs... Read more »

OUTSKIRTS (20 Apr, Platform, The Bridge, Westerhouse Road, Glasgow)Glasgow-based Outskirts' comparative modesty of size seems inversely proportionate to... Read more »

“A lot of electronic bands these days, not wanting to name names, they shy away from the melody, shy away from the song and it becomes all about how th... Read more »

Across a year of austerity budgets, fracking controversies and seemingly endless state surveillance revelations, the anger and frustration that structures&nb... Read more »

In a year where the bloated, ego-fed excesses of mainstream hip-hop became the central narrative of pop culture, it would have been easy to write off rap. It... Read more »

Bright Eyes – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen [from A Christmas Album, Saddle Creek, Out Now] The Skinny: This is from their 2002 Christmas album, which h... Read more »

The longlist for the 2013 Scottish Album of the Year Award (SAY) has been announced today. The second in the initiative's history, the inaugural prize was aw... Read more »

The end of a short tour is a mixed blessing; or, as Andrew Falkous puts it, “very sweet but kind of fruity”. It’s saying goodbye to weeks o... Read more »

Billed as The Lips 'bleak, disturbing' record (with suitably ominous title to match), the reality is that this, their thirteenth studio album, whil... Read more »

From Josh Homme’s youth as a prodigious stoner rock visionary in Kyuss to the slick, guitar pop-skewing renaissance man we see at the helm of Queens to... Read more »

On 8 January, David Bowie’s 69th birthday, his 25th studio album Blackstar was released. Seemingly a cause for double celebration, certainly none of us... Read more »

Let’s see; there’s been remix duty, production duty, soundtrack duty… it’s fair to say that Ben Power doesn’t do procrastinati... Read more »

So that was our albums of the year and, while we doff our collective cap to those up top, the joy of such lists is always about making new discoveries, even ... Read more »

Death is a familiar character in Nick Cave’s songbook, but Skeleton Tree, his 16th studio album with The Bad Seeds, carries a particularly tragic spect... Read more »