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Kevin Macdonald is a tough director to pin down. He’s probably best known for two documentaries, 2003’s Touching the Void, which recreated the pe... Read more »

Canadian post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor and US hip-hop duo Run the Jewels have been added to the line-up for All Tomorrow's Parties Iceland 2015 ne... Read more »

Amanda Palmer’s not one for doing things by halves. Affectionately known as Amanda Fucking Palmer, the only consistent element in her hugely varied car... Read more »

NEW MUSIC FROM ALICE IN CHAINS, DAMIEN JURADO, SOLE & WHITE HEATHVeteran Seattle metallers Alice In Chains follow up their respectable 2009 stu... Read more »

Gerry Blythe is a resident DJ at two Glasgow nights, Kill Yr Idols (which runs every third Saturday of the month at the Berkeley Suite), and New Li... Read more »

Formed in Glasgow in 2004, Errors were originally a bedroom recording project consisting of Simon Ward, Stephen Livingstone and Greg Paterson. Fusing electro... Read more »

The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award and Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) have joined forces to present two awards for both establish... Read more »

The howling gale-force guitars and morose lyrics of The Twilight Sad place the band in a dark place, outside, on a cold Scottish winter’s eve. Now a fa... Read more »

Veteran rapper, producer and songwriter Yoni Wolf is one of the mainstays of Oakland's celebrated Anticon label. His main project is Why?, the band... Read more »

Malcolm Middleton may be best known as one half - the musical half at the back of the stage - of Arab Strap, but he’s released some fantastic solo musi... Read more »

“You guys are awesome!” She’s being nice; we’re not. This Usher Hall audience is January-cold, and tonight’s support –&nb... Read more »

Brooklyn’s own cat-loving MC is recognisable for his eloquent, aggressive approach to high-speed wordplay; he’s technically gifted and madly imag... Read more »

Trying to pick a best Mark Lanegan song or album would be a near-impossible task: first consider his solo work or as Mark Lanegan Band, that’s nine alb... Read more »

Philadelphia native Kurt Vile’s solo career originally began in the early 2000s, when he began making cassettes of his home recordings, inspired by the... Read more »

The twenty-strong longlist for this year's Scottish Album of the Year Award (SAY Award) has been unveiled. An industry wide panel of nominators, from the ma... Read more »

John Grant is enjoying something of a purple patch.  Ten years with The Czars in the late 90s/early noughties indicated Grant's gift for a candid lyric... Read more »

“Tonight seems like a good night for us to just fuck around; that’s alright with you guys, right?” asks Daughn Gibson with the rhetorical a... Read more »

Born in Oslo in 1980, experimental songwriter Jenny Hval’s music career began with gothic metal band Shellyz Raven, whose sole, doom-tinged album Desol... 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 veteran trio unveiled new track Tiny in a world exclusive performance on Later... with Jools Holland Indie rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr return with their 1... Read more »

It’s been ten years since The Maccabees released their debut album, Colour It In. When it was released, they were one of a plethora of groups of young,... Read more »

Window-shattering, bone-cracking, nerve-jangling: noise duo Lightning Bolt are an assault on the senses, the body, the mind, and the building. When possible,... Read more »

Hailing from Lethbridge in the Canadian province of Alberta, Fist City formed from the ashes of several punk bands dotted between Calgary and their current h... Read more »

We want new music, and we want it now! But what's worse? Frank Ocean's ridiculously postponed record drop, or Kanye's confusion over The Life of Pablo? ... Read more »

Live music in Edinburgh Dutch Uncles @ Electric Circus, 1 Mar "Dutch Uncles are an odd bunch" – that's how our review of the Manchester four-piece's ... Read more »

Formed in 1989 in Buffalo, New York, Mercury Rev would go on to define much of the psychedelic sounds that characterised indie rock in the late 90s. The init... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 13-20 Dec: The Twilight Sad, Slow Fest + Home Alone!       ... Read more »

Just long enough after Hogmanay that you’ll have hopefully recovered, the Fun Lovin’ Criminals swing by the O2 ABC on Thu 16 Jan. Front... 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 »

It's well known that synth-pop band Chvrches ditched the "u" in their otherwise holy moniker to avoid coming a cropper on religious Google searches. This is ... Read more »