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Here comes the summer
Neil Cooper on the year’s most unashamedly joyous record
Read MoreHope and despair
The Glasgow-based chanteuse has produced a remarkable treatise on love, loss and redemption, writes Alistair Braidwood
Read MoreHere comes the sun
Sound of Yell’s third release is a woozy slice of summer joy, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreLive Review
F For Fake – The Secret Goldfish, Spectorbullets, The Sexual Objects. Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh, June 24. By Neil Cooper
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Japanese New Music Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh. Sunday June 18th. By Neil Cooper
Read MorePlatonic Dialogue
A story by Teo Rivera-Dundas
Read MoreDraw you in
Graham Domke previews the new Rob Churm show at Glasgow’s CCA
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Damo Suzuki’s Network, Mash House, Edinburgh, Scotland. By Neil Cooper
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Indie-pop survivors resurface with a record rich in off-kilter charm, writes Neil Cooper
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Former Soup Dragon returns with a second instalment of inspired dance floor euphoria, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreBilly Wilder
Arch,camp and supremely talented, Billy Mackenzie would have been sixty this week. Graham Domke celebrates Scotland’s Scott Walker
Read MoreHere comes the sun
Product writers choose their favourite summer songs to brighten the darkest sky
Read MorePick up the pieces
Neil Cooper on a new collection of instrumentals exploring the shadows of Dundee’s changing urban landscape
Read MoreCmon feel the neuz
Neil Cooper on the beat/punk roots of Neu! Reekie!
Read MoreHere come the men in pants
Neil Cooper on the return of the lustrous Special Love
Read MoreLive Review
Public Service Broadcasting: The Race for Space Live. Usher Hall, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
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Glasgow’s talented all girl gang banish twee with a soaring fusion of indie and bubblegum, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreAll around the world
With three films out this year, exile-turned-actor Jamie Robson is on the brink of a big screen breakthrough
Read MoreThe Daily Hate
Sibylla Kalid discusses ethics with the founder of a campaign to discourage corporations advertising in tabloids which pedal racial prejudice
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Creeping Bent stalwarts return with a sublime collection of shimmering indie pop, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreLive Review
Karate Priest, Rhubaba, Leith. By Hugo Fluendy
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Mick Harvey, Summerhall, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
Read MoreShining
A poem by Cara L McKee
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Ex-Banshee releases another slice of bass-heavy ambient exploration, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreRadio Days
Neil Cooper talks to Johny Brown about adapting Bill Drummond’s plays for radio
Read MoreFlowers in the dustbin
Neil Cooper on a thunderous EP from the Blue Orchids’ latest incarnation
Read MorePower couple
Neil Cooper on two fine new releases shot through with inventive exuberance
Read MorePower 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
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Neil Cooper finds hidden depths in a thrillingly contemporary folk album
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Album review: Usurper
Neil Cooper gets lost on a sonic safari of bizarre out takes and playful hidden meanings
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Julian Cope, La Belle Angele, Edinburgh. By Neil Cooper
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Island of no return
Sibylla Kalid on the Glasgow project seeking short filmic responses to Brexit
Read MoreWild at heart
The Glasgow garage schlock meisters’ latest is shot through with attitude, musical nous and invention, writes Neil Cooper
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Future Get Down: Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh. By Hugo Fluendy
Read MoreAlbum review: Culver
Neil Cooper on a thunderous, genre-defying epic
Read MoreAlbum review: Blurt
The raw power of this abstract-expressionist art troupe is captured live, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreLost in music
Daniel Patrick Quinn’ s return is full of brilliant quixotic invention, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreStill waters
Lomond Campbell’s epic debut captures the redemptive power of nature, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreSaturated 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
Read MoreAlbum Review: Rothko
Bass takes centre stage in this starkly beautiful collection, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreCabinet of wonders
A spellbinding collection of short stories is Naomi Richards’ Book of the Year
Read MoreAgra
Rory Cavanagh goes behind the scenes at one of the new Wonders of the World
Read MoreYunnan Matriarchy
Documentary photographer Mariusz Bogacki explores the role of women in the Yunnan province of China
Read MorePure genius
Neil Cooper on an inspired send off from one of Scotland’s most inventive duos
Read MoreAlbum Review: Jazzateers
Neil Cooper on a sparkling collection from the lost band of the Postcard era
Read MoreEverything you know is wrong
As her new collection of short stories is launched, Meaghan Delahunt talks to Naomi Richards about the art of writing
Read MoreHop til you drop
This collection of joyously eclectic dancefloor fillers celebrates a much-loved club, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreThanks Leonard
A poem by Laura Escuela
Read MoreThe heart will not retreat
Neil Cooper salutes the stark beauty of Leonard Cohen’s work
Read MoreBonus of youth
Neil Cooper finds The Male Nurse compilation full of offbeat charms
Read MoreBurn
A poem by Maxine Rose Munro
Read MoreAmerica cuts its throat
Lisa Locascio wakes up to the full, painful horror of the Trump ascendancy
Read MoreNocturnal animals
Tom Ford’s compelling, stylish neo-noir expertly examines memory and revenge, writes Robert Gallacher
Read MoreLouder than bombs
Neil Cooper on the new album by Scotland’s slow core poets
Read MoreShrink the state
Neil Cooper finds Jimmy Cauty’s miniaturist celebration of dissent strikingly apposite
Read MoreLight in the north
Band of Holy Joy: A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes. Reviewed by Neil Cooper
Read MoreDeep blue
Werner Herzog’s latest documentary is a fascinating but flawed investigation into our obsession with technology, writes Robert Gallacher
Read MoreAmong the roses
Neil Cooper is enchanted by the The Rebel’s latest offering Clear & Lies in June
Read MoreGhosts in the machine
Allan Brown suspects his iPod Randomiser knows a little more than it should
Read MoreFlowers in the dustbin
Robert Gallacher enjoys Andrea Arnold’s touching road movie about millenials at the bottom of the pile
Read MoreChimes of freedom
Glasgow hosts a hard-hitting multi- discipline arts project examining issues of state power and violence this weekend, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreGimme some truth
Neil Cooper on a remarkable musical elegy to those lost in the Lockerbie tragedy
Read MoreThe real hip hop is over here
Scottish hip hop eclipses even its US major label counterparts, writes Peter Burnett
Read MoreTop Ten Club
Robert Gallacher selects his favourite Hitchcock movies
Read MoreTimeless tonight
A retrospective Boots for Dancing collection may finally give the long lost funk-punk pioneers the recognition they deserve, writes Neil Cooper
Read MoreDown the rabbit hole
Nathanael Smith salutes the anarchic brilliance of Don Hertzfeldt
Read MoreScotland 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
Read MoreNo one is safe
Lilly Markaki on Agamben’s timely warnings about state power and perpetual war
Read MoreIn 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
Read MoreDown the rabbit hole
Nathanael Smith selects his five favourite TV animations ever
Read MoreTop Ten Club
Neil Cooper picks his favourite songs by bands from Liverpool, first city of pop
Read MoreSeize the day
Robin McAlpine’s latest book urges Scottish independence campaigners to grab the initiative and win the big arguments, writes Paddy Bort
Read MoreTop Ten Club
Allan Hunter salutes Ingrid Bergman’s greatest movie performances.
Read MoreThis land is your land
Photographer Keith Brame journeys across the Scottish Highlands and Islands documenting the stark beauty of the landscape and its inhabitants
Read MoreSpaces of Fiction
Mark Osborne uses lighting techniques to create abstract images that explore space and form
Read MoreKill the poor
A beginners’ guide to Ron Butlin’s fiction. By Alistair Braidwood
Read MorePicture 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
Read MoreIn and out of love
Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore excel in this stylish New York comedy, writes Robert Gallacher
Read MoreDown the rabbit hole
Music videos have long sought to harness the power of animation. Nathanael Smith chooses five of the best.
Read MoreYester day once more
As Belle and Sebastian celebrate twenty years since the release of Tigermilk, Neil Cooper toasts a summer of musical milestones
Read MoreSheila take a bow
Aidan Moffat’s foray into traditional music began mischievously but ended up being very moving, writes Alistair Braidwood
Read MoreDown the rabbit hole
Nathanael Smith salutes five animations which combine inspiring messages of hope and calls for positive change
Read MoreSoul train
Stuart Cosgrove’s latest is an eloquent mix of social history and musical retrospective, writes Alistair Braidwood
Read MoreSuper 8
Neil Cooper on the welcome return of Robert King, onetime frontman of Scottish postpunk band Scars
Read MoreLow rider
Gregor Schmatz takes us on a road trip through Sweden’s love affair with the American car
Read MoreFly the flag
Michael Moore returns with a characteristically clever documentary about alternatives to war, writes Robert Gallacher
Read MoreSing Street
John Carney’s feelgood tale of an ’80s Dublin school band is note perfect, writes Nathanael Smith
Read MoreGreen Room
Powerful and uncompromising as it is, Jeremy Saulnier’s latest offering lacks some of the power of its predecessor, writes Nathanael Smith
Read MoreThe Quiet in the Land
Photographer Jane Flynn provides a fascinating insight into the lives of the Mennonites of Southern Illinois
Read MoreFemale power
Lilly Markaki talks to P H O E N E, organiser of tonight’s all female Bossy Love aftershow
Read MoreMorning in America
Linklater’s Dazed and Confused sequel is short on plot but big on laughs, writes Robert Gallacher
Read MoreCall for submissions
We publish original art and invite writers to submit stories inspired by the work
Read MoreSon 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
Read MoreStart making sense
Common Weal’s Book of Ideas offers a wealth of inspiration for Holyrood policy making, writes Paddy Bort
Read MoreForever changes
Neil Cooper talks to Michael Head about survival and the redemptive joy of songwriting
Read MoreMiles Ahead
Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor excel in this energetic look at the life of a peerless jazz legend, writes Robert Gallacher
Read MoreThe care taker
Robert Gallacher on the beauty of Audiard’s timely human drama
Read MoreSister of mine
Kirstin Innes discusses Fishnet, its follow-up and the art of writing with Naomi Richards
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