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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

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Down the rabbit hole

Nathanael Smith salutes the anarchic brilliance of Don Hertzfeldt

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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.

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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 TigermilkNeil 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

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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

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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