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We first stumbled upon Team Picture at Brighton's The Great Escape Festival, where they impressed with an early afternoon show that channelled both slick syn... Read more »

LYLO are a band with plenty of reasons to celebrate right now. Their recent release Post Era is a serious early contender for best Scottish record of th... Read more »

The best film festivals introduce you to cinema you might otherwise never see, and that’s just what Iberodocs - Scotland’s festival dedicated to ... Read more »

“I remember being on a call with the rest of the guys, in the depths of the pandemic, and saying, 'I’m never gonna complain again about a Sunday ... Read more »

The SAY Award has today announced the acts playing its annual Live at the Longlist, at The Queen’s Hall Edinburgh on 26 July, and it’s a mouth-wa... Read more »

Edinburgh International Festival's Light on the Shore series really reaches its peak this weekend, with a truly astounding line-up of events – round of... Read more »

Spread out not only across Edinburgh and Glasgow but across both of the cities’ most important music venues, Stag & Dagger is a celebration of live... Read more »

“Once August is out the way, I’ll be like ‘give me my dodgems!’” Anna Meredith is a very busy woman. So busy in fact that she&... Read more »

Ahead of the longlist for the 2019 Scottish Album of the Year (SAY Award) being announced at the Live at the Longlist event on Friday 26 July at The Queen's ... Read more »

The fourth edition of Pomegranates Festival, The Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland’s interdisciplinary festival of dance, is themed around masks, exa... Read more »

It feels like we’ve been planning this one for ages, and, well, thanks to the pandemic, we kind of have been. Planning for this year's takeover of the ... Read more »

Summer festival season may be well and truly over, but that doesn't mean festivals have to disappear completely! Whatever your musical taste, there's an opti... Read more »

Three cheers for the return of LeithLate (8&9 Jun), following a break last year due to funding issues – hip hip hooray! We’re teaming up with... Read more »

Celtic Connections, Scotland’s blow-out celebration of folk, trad, and world music, returns for its 30th anniversary from 19 Jan-5 Feb, with over 300 i... Read more »

After the success of their 2017 festival, the volunteer-run multi-arts festival returns to Leith this May and June with a bigger programme than ever. Two of ... Read more »

September is one of those funny months. After the usually-busy August it properly marks the start of autumn, welcoming cosy jumpers and duvet days on the cou... Read more »

“It feels good to be back in Scotland,” Joshua Mainnie, aka Barry Can’t Swim, tells us a few songs in, smiling out at the packed crowd. Hai... Read more »

This article contains discussions of trauma, substance abuse and death which some readers may find upsetting. Constant Follower is likely not a new name to ... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh this week Shonen Knife @ Summerhall, 1 MayThe word prolific gets bandied around a lot but when it comes to Shonen Knife, there’s no ... Read more »

The Skinny are more than a little hyped for Light on the Shore, Edinburgh International Festival’s season of gigs celebrating Scottish music. Taking pl... Read more »

Yet another success story in the long lineage of Scottish twee-pop/alt-rock bands, The Spook School approach their third album on the verge of super-stardom.... Read more »

The Graphic Design Festival Scotland celebrates its 5th birthday this year, with a week-long programme of events from 19-25 October and two exhibitions &ndas... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh this week CRYSTAL @ Sneaky Pete's, 27 JulThe Glasgow grunge-fuelled, glam-punk four-piece recently impressed on The Skinny's stage at Kelb... Read more »

Yes, it's time for your annual trip to Bo'ness, as Scotland's first and only festival celebrating silent film and live music, Hippodrome Silent Film Festival... Read more »

Help Musicians UK has been operating since 1921 and is the leading independent music charity offering support to artists and industry professionals throughou... Read more »

After a busy few years between 2017 and 2019 where they released two records via GLARC as well as a split with Shovel Dance Collective’s Jacken Elswyth... Read more »

Over 50 comedy events will take place at 25 venues across Aberdeen between 4-13 October this year, including stand-out headliners, fringe favourites, comedy ... Read more »

One of the biggest music showcases in Europe, The Great Escape festival in Brighton is the UK festival for new music. The annual three day event ta... Read more »

As the temperature plummets, and it starts getting dark by 6pm, it's easy to lean into your yearning for cosy evenings on the couch, binge-watching trash TV,... Read more »

It’s always exciting when someone makes a splash in the local music scene. Bad With Names, the debut LP by jazz composer corto.alto, was our album... Read more »