Music

Neil Cooper talks to WHITE frontman Leo Condie about post punk hooks, disco pop grandeur and the art of flamboyant performance

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

The first seven inch from Jim Lambie’s label is slightly bonkers but irresistable, writes Neil Cooper

The third installment of a celebratory showcase of Scotland’s virtuoso female jazz players takes place tonight, writes Neil Cooper

Hilarious, profound, prolific and uncategorisable, Giant Tank are an underground treasure, writes Neil Cooper

Haftor Medbøe and friends have created a fearsomely fine album, writes Neil Cooper

Golden Teacher have collated their first three storming singles into one glorious disc, writes Neil Cooper

In the third part of his sleevenotes to the new Boots for Dancing compilation, Neil Cooper looks at the band’s timely embrace of funk

In the second part of his sleevenotes to the new Boots for Dancing compilation, Neil Cooper traces the band’ s roots

Martin Creed’s succinct protest songs bely a hefty emotional power, writes Neil Cooper

Teen Canteen reprise a timely, all-star benefit gig for Scottish Women’s Aid, writes Neil Cooper

Uncompromising, inventive and oppositional, Sleaford Mods provide a perfect soundtrack to the age of austerity, writes Neil Cooper

Samantha Jones’ second single is a peerless piece of gutsy ’60s melodrama, writes Neil Cooper