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All of this and nothing

Sarah Busby on innocence, idealism and her first love: the Psychedelic Furs

Fire Escape in the sky

Did a percipient Scouse maverick secure Scott Walker’s place in pop history? asks Neil Cooper

Soldier -Talk

Neil Cooper unearths The Red Crayola’s great lost album and post-punk’s missing link

Checkmate Savage

The Phantom Band’s genre defying debut is as thrilling as the day it was released in 2009, writes Neil Cooper

Rip it up

Scotland has a richly diverse and inventive musical history from Lonnie Donegan to Young Fathers. Test your Scottish pop knowledge in our quiz

Kathleen Hanna (right) singing live with Bikini Kill in the early '90s.

We love you

In the first of a series of letters to artists who inspired them, author Kirsty Logan salutes singer Kathleen Hanna.

Just like gold

No-one writes love songs like Roddy Frame.Alistair Braidwood hails Scotland’s most articulate and hopeful romantic

Denise Johnson

Ahead of two Scottish dates, velvet-voiced soul singer Denise Johnson talks to Neil Coooper about her new album of acoustic covers of Manchester bands

Hip priest

Neil Cooper on four decades of the contrary, belligerent and brilliant Mark E Smith

Lux Lives!

Nine years since he left the party, an exuberant annual celebration of the Cramps’ colourful frontman is still in full swing, writes Paul Robinson