Music
Live review
Slapp Happy with Faust, Cafe Oto, London. By Neil Cooper
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
Album Review: Rothko
Bass takes centre stage in this starkly beautiful collection, writes Neil Cooper
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
Hop til you drop
This collection of joyously eclectic dancefloor fillers celebrates a much-loved club, writes Neil Cooper
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
Louder than bombs
Neil Cooper on the new album by Scotland’s slow core poets
Light in the north
Band of Holy Joy: A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes. Reviewed by Neil Cooper
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
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
Timeless tonight
A retrospective Boots for Dancing collection may finally give the long lost funk-punk pioneers the recognition they deserve, writes Neil Cooper
Top Ten Club
Neil Cooper picks his favourite songs by bands from Liverpool, first city of pop
Yester day once more
As Belle and Sebastian celebrate twenty years since the release of Tigermilk, Neil Cooper toasts a summer of musical milestones
Super 8
Neil Cooper on the welcome return of Robert King, onetime frontman of Scottish postpunk band Scars
Female power
Lilly Markaki talks to P H O E N E, organiser of tonight’s all female Bossy Love aftershow