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Helping shine a light on up-and-coming talent across Scotland’s diverse music scene, the nominees for the 12th edition of the Scottish Alternative... Read more »

September was another busy month for Scottish releases, of which we missed a lot of in our actual September roundup last month. Our bad. To make up for it, h... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh this week Wiley @ Liquid Room, 28 FebThe grime mainstay returned to the forefront of the scene with a bang courtesy of last year's Go... Read more »

The most notable release this month comes from Glasgow-based hyperpop/gabber producer TAAHLIAH. Following the success of May’s Angelica (longlisted for... Read more »

Welcome to the November new look Music Now column, celebrating as much Scottish music as we can squeeze into a page. We'll start where we usually do, by ackn... Read more »

Scotland's up-and-coming musicians will have access to the PRS Foundation's Momentum Music Fund for the first time, thanks to a new tie-up between Creative S... Read more »

There are a few big hitters this month from scene veterans like Sharleen Spiteri's Texas and Justin Currie’s Del AmItri, while Idlewild frontman R... Read more »

As is custom, here's some of what we missed last month. There were new albums from Supermann on da Beat and Xidontile, Sister John, Starsky-Rae and Swim... Read more »

With festival season fully back in June, it was hard to keep up with new releases. Towards the end of the month Glasgow funk and hip-hop collective DOPESICKF... Read more »

When we spoke to Johnny Lynch during the height of the pandemic he told us he’d been listening to a lot of early !!! records and had in turn been worki... Read more »

I can’t believe I’m writing this, but it’s 2021 (insert celebratory emoji here)! We only bloody well made it through 2020 – phew! &nd... Read more »

January was a busy month. On day one, P3, the collaborative record from producer Supermann on da beat and rapper xidontile arrived, with debut albums later i... Read more »

Starting in the capital, the Edinburgh International Festival is bringing some of the biggest names in music to Leith Theatre this month; our top picks inclu... Read more »

#20 Belle & Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance [2015, Matador] #19 The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and N... Read more »

Waving goodbye to winter might be the most anticipated time of the year, but March was made all the better by a tide of tracks that didn’t make it into... Read more »

What better way to start a new year than by looking back? Let's go! December kicked off with two excellent debuts from Glasgow-based artists on the 5th; CUZI... Read more »

While the middle of April saw Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite announce his literary debut, Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai and Misspent Youth, towards the ... Read more »

Rained out, but somehow roasting hot at the same time? Sounds like a Scottish summer. In the torrent of July tunes we missed out on some excellent singles by... Read more »

For a country with such a vibrant music scene, Scottish musicians are responsible for surprisingly few great musical moments in cinema. There are Mark Knopfl... Read more »

It’s set to be a big month for music lovers all across the UK as the first of two Record Store Day drops lands on 12 June. Drop one includes a smatteri... Read more »

At the end of last year we missed EPs from PAQUE (Truth Be Told), KATERINA. (Songs I Wrote When I Was 18), and BPK (In Ascent), the solo ambient electro... Read more »

Assai RecordsGrindlay Street, Edinburgh, 8am-8pmKing Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, 8am-8pm  At the start of the month Assai Records’ Edinb... Read more »

First up, Savage Mansion’s third album Golden Mountain, Here I Come arrives this month via Lost Map (25 Feb). “It could be our first record as a ... Read more »

Rustie – Glass Swords[Warp, 2011]Rustie's debut album came out the year I started Uni so it definitely soundtracked a very particular time in my life, ... Read more »

July is often one of the quieter times of the year for releases as it’s usually jam-packed with a busy festival calendar, artists more focused on playi... Read more »

As we wrote this month’s round-up, Glasgow’s Mogwai were in the running to score a number one album in the UK charts with their tenth record ... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh this week DB Hews, Olivia Lucia, Khalid Al Khajah @ Sneaky Pete's, 28 Mar A trio of up-and-coming talents come together tonight ... Read more »

Before we get into March, last month we missed another plant-based record from Brian d’Souza, aka Auntie Flo, with Sunflowers coming out on limite... Read more »

We covered a heck of a lot in the September column, but still there was more to come, like Isik Kural’s sublime and delicate Moon In Gemini, or Ey... Read more »

March brought a run of releases that we didn't find out about in time for last month’s round-up: the chic New Hair New Me by Eyes of Others is worth ta... Read more »