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 TigermilkNeil 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