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Album review
Ex-Banshee releases another slice of bass-heavy ambient exploration, writes Neil Cooper
Radio Days
Neil Cooper talks to Johny Brown about adapting Bill Drummond’s plays for radio
Flowers in the dustbin
Neil Cooper on a thunderous EP from the Blue Orchids’ latest incarnation
Power couple
Neil Cooper on two fine new releases shot through with inventive exuberance
Power in the darkness
Neil Cooper meets Syd Shelton, chronicler of the seminal ’70s Rock Against Racism campaign with new relevance for today’s protest movement
Album review
Neil Cooper finds hidden depths in a thrillingly contemporary folk album
Live review
Pet Shop Boys, The Playhouse, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
Album review: Usurper
Neil Cooper gets lost on a sonic safari of bizarre out takes and playful hidden meanings
Live review
Julian Cope, La Belle Angele, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
Live review
Slapp Happy with Faust, Cafe Oto, London. By Neil Cooper
Island of no return
Sibylla Kalid on the Glasgow project seeking short filmic responses to Brexit
Wild at heart
The Glasgow garage schlock meisters’ latest is shot through with attitude, musical nous and invention, writes Neil Cooper
Live Review
Future Get Down: Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh. By Hugo Fluendy
Album review: Culver
Neil Cooper on a thunderous, genre-defying epic
Album review: Blurt
The raw power of this abstract-expressionist art troupe is captured live, writes Neil Cooper
Lost in music
Daniel Patrick Quinn’ s return is full of brilliant quixotic invention, writes Neil Cooper
Still waters
Lomond Campbell’s epic debut captures the redemptive power of nature, writes Neil Cooper
Saturated in Sight and Sound
As the late and much-loved Katy Dove’s work is celebrated in a major exhibition, Neil Cooper talks to Graham Domke and Anne Marie Copestake about this most playful and visionary of artists
Album Review: Rothko
Bass takes centre stage in this starkly beautiful collection, writes Neil Cooper
Cabinet of wonders
A spellbinding collection of short stories is Naomi Richards’ Book of the Year
Agra
Rory Cavanagh goes behind the scenes at one of the new Wonders of the World
Yunnan Matriarchy
Documentary photographer Mariusz Bogacki explores the role of women in the Yunnan province of China
Pure genius
Neil Cooper on an inspired send off from one of Scotland’s most inventive duos
Album Review: Jazzateers
Neil Cooper on a sparkling collection from the lost band of the Postcard era
Everything you know is wrong
As her new collection of short stories is launched, Meaghan Delahunt talks to Naomi Richards about the art of writing
Hop til you drop
This collection of joyously eclectic dancefloor fillers celebrates a much-loved club, writes Neil Cooper
Thanks Leonard
A poem by Laura Escuela
The heart will not retreat
Neil Cooper salutes the stark beauty of Leonard Cohen’s work
Bonus of youth
Neil Cooper finds The Male Nurse compilation full of offbeat charms
Burn
A poem by Maxine Rose Munro
America cuts its throat
Lisa Locascio wakes up to the full, painful horror of the Trump ascendancy
Nocturnal animals
Tom Ford’s compelling, stylish neo-noir expertly examines memory and revenge, writes Robert Gallacher
Louder than bombs
Neil Cooper on the new album by Scotland’s slow core poets
Shrink the state
Neil Cooper finds Jimmy Cauty’s miniaturist celebration of dissent strikingly apposite
Light in the north
Band of Holy Joy: A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes. Reviewed by Neil Cooper
Deep blue
Werner Herzog’s latest documentary is a fascinating but flawed investigation into our obsession with technology, writes Robert Gallacher
Among the roses
Neil Cooper is enchanted by the The Rebel’s latest offering Clear & Lies in June
Ghosts in the machine
Allan Brown suspects his iPod Randomiser knows a little more than it should
Flowers in the dustbin
Robert Gallacher enjoys Andrea Arnold’s touching road movie about millenials at the bottom of the pile
Chimes of freedom
Glasgow hosts a hard-hitting multi- discipline arts project examining issues of state power and violence this weekend, writes Neil Cooper
Gimme some truth
Neil Cooper on a remarkable musical elegy to those lost in the Lockerbie tragedy
The real hip hop is over here
Scottish hip hop eclipses even its US major label counterparts, writes Peter Burnett
Top Ten Club
Robert Gallacher selects his favourite Hitchcock movies
Timeless tonight
A retrospective Boots for Dancing collection may finally give the long lost funk-punk pioneers the recognition they deserve, writes Neil Cooper
Down the rabbit hole
Nathanael Smith salutes the anarchic brilliance of Don Hertzfeldt
Scotland The Fat
A casualised economy, sold-off sports fields and an over- reliance on cars has produced an obesity epidemic. Chris Harvie on how we might shed some lard
No one is safe
Lilly Markaki on Agamben’s timely warnings about state power and perpetual war
In her own words
Stig Bjorkman’s intimate portrait of Ingrid Bergman offers a close up of the woman, not the screen idol, writes Allan Hunter
Down the rabbit hole
Nathanael Smith selects his five favourite TV animations ever
Top Ten Club
Neil Cooper picks his favourite songs by bands from Liverpool, first city of pop
Seize the day
Robin McAlpine’s latest book urges Scottish independence campaigners to grab the initiative and win the big arguments, writes Paddy Bort
Top Ten Club
Allan Hunter salutes Ingrid Bergman’s greatest movie performances.
This land is your land
Photographer Keith Brame journeys across the Scottish Highlands and Islands documenting the stark beauty of the landscape and its inhabitants
Spaces of Fiction
Mark Osborne uses lighting techniques to create abstract images that explore space and form
Kill the poor
A beginners’ guide to Ron Butlin’s fiction. By Alistair Braidwood
Picture this
Artist Calum Colvin on creative invention, what to say to painters when they pick on you, and how to glue a tortoise to an ironing board
In and out of love
Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore excel in this stylish New York comedy, writes Robert Gallacher
Down the rabbit hole
Music videos have long sought to harness the power of animation. Nathanael Smith chooses five of the best.
Yester day once more
As Belle and Sebastian celebrate twenty years since the release of Tigermilk, Neil Cooper toasts a summer of musical milestones
Sheila take a bow
Aidan Moffat’s foray into traditional music began mischievously but ended up being very moving, writes Alistair Braidwood
Down the rabbit hole
Nathanael Smith salutes five animations which combine inspiring messages of hope and calls for positive change
Soul train
Stuart Cosgrove’s latest is an eloquent mix of social history and musical retrospective, writes Alistair Braidwood
Super 8
Neil Cooper on the welcome return of Robert King, onetime frontman of Scottish postpunk band Scars
Low rider
Gregor Schmatz takes us on a road trip through Sweden’s love affair with the American car
Fly the flag
Michael Moore returns with a characteristically clever documentary about alternatives to war, writes Robert Gallacher
Sing Street
John Carney’s feelgood tale of an ’80s Dublin school band is note perfect, writes Nathanael Smith
Green Room
Powerful and uncompromising as it is, Jeremy Saulnier’s latest offering lacks some of the power of its predecessor, writes Nathanael Smith
The Quiet in the Land
Photographer Jane Flynn provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the Mennonites of Southern Illinois
Female power
Lilly Markaki talks to P H O E N E, organiser of tonight’s all female Bossy Love aftershow
Morning in America
Linklater’s Dazed and Confused sequel is short on plot but big on laughs, writes Robert Gallacher
Call for submissions
We publish original art and invite writers to submit stories inspired by the work
Son of Saul
Laszlo Nemes’ directorial debut is a poignant, intense story of enduring human spirit amongst the endless darkness of a Nazi concentration camp, writes Robert Gallacher
Start making sense
Common Weal’s Book of Ideas offers a wealth of inspiration for Holyrood policy making, writes Paddy Bort
Forever changes
Neil Cooper talks to Michael Head about survival and the redemptive joy of songwriting
Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor excel in this energetic look at the life of a peerless jazz legend, writes Robert Gallacher
The care taker
Robert Gallacher on the beauty of Audiard’s timely human drama
Sister of mine
Kirstin Innes discusses Fishnet, its follow-up and the art of writing with Naomi Richards
If not now
Lilly Markaki chooses ten films which inspire viewers to take action
Top Ten Club
Chris Fast picks his favourite post punk singles
Lost picture show
An ambitious project to refashion abandoned film from the 1950s is totally beguiling, writes Alistair Braidwood
Natural disaster
Peter Greenaway’s story about a venerated Soviet director is visually pleasing but hilariously bad, writes David Melville
Guns and roses
Andrea Needham’s lucid book celebrates an audacious direct action against the arms trade, writes Paul Rogers
Time out
Richard Gere’s drama about homelessness makes compelling viewing, writes Robert Gallacher
Falling shadows
Artist Philip Braham discusses his photographic series which recalls an old master and looks at where photography as a medium is heading
Right next time
To achieve the democratic control which lies at the heart of demands for independence, we must develop a credible currency plan – and soon, writes Robin McAlpine
The only fun in town
Neil Cooper talks to WHITE frontman Leo Condie about post punk hooks, disco pop grandeur and the art of flamboyant performance
Still crazy
This Heat split in 1982, but their records influenced some of the most inventive alternative musicians who followed. Neil Cooper caught the improv kings’ live return as This Is Not This Heat at Café Oto
Natural woman
A new documentary about Janis Joplin unearths the fragile character with a mesmerising vocal talent, writes Alistair Braidwood
Taste and expectation
Amelia Bayler on things we need to think about when we think about food
Royal Babylon
Heathcote Williams has a fearsome back catalogue spanning five decades as an activist, writer and poet. His latest works are typically acute, essential polemics, writes Neil Cooper
The Energy Project
Elena Kollatou explores the social and environmental impact of large scale coal mining across Europe.
Yellow pearl
The first seven inch from Jim Lambie’s label is slightly bonkers but irresistable, writes Neil Cooper
Bitches Brew
The third installment of a celebratory showcase of Scotland’s virtuoso female jazz players takes place tonight, writes Neil Cooper
Urban shuffle
Hilarious, profound, prolific and uncategorisable, Giant Tank are an underground treasure, writes Neil Cooper
The chips and the fury
Anger over The Glasgow Effect opens up a raft of issues for modern Scotland, writes Neil Cooper
Tales of the Hidden People
Photographer Christina Kernohan travelled to Mongolia and discovered a land of wild beauty and stark contrasts
One of us
Who will benefit from The Glasgow Effect? asks Lilly Markaki
More Viking than you
Haftor Medbøe and friends have created a fearsomely fine album, writes Neil Cooper
Night Hawking
Daniel White constructs sculptures in the landscape to cast light on the dark practice of night hawking
Down the rabbit hole
Happy Birthday to Fantasia which first graced cinema screens in 1940. Nathanael Smith on a genuinely bravura classic