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‘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 »

To borrow a song title from Factory Floor's self-titled debut album, there are two different ways you can approach being in a live band. You can refine your ... Read more »

After the promising dress rehearsal of Frightened Rabbit’s debut album, Sing the Greys, the Selkirk troupe quickly followed up with main event The Midn... Read more »

The idea that former Y'All Is Fantasy Island front-man Adam Stafford considered giving up music after the release of his 2011 album Build A Harbour Immediate... Read more »

For an elusive duo who once proclaimed ‘music is math,’ the cryptic, numerical-led announcement of Boards of Canada’s fourth album was sure... Read more »

Featuring: JULIA HOLTER – THIS IS A TRUE HEART Julia Holter's previous albums have explored poetry and Greek tragedy. The LA songwriter and compose... Read more »

  FEATURING Artists from The Albums of 2013: Fuck Buttons Benjamin Power and Andrew Hung’s third record saw them ascend to the very top ... Read more »

The snow has passed, hopefully for good, and as this column is written a low winter sun is shining over Glasgow, promising a mild spring and an early summer ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

  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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »