Music
Interviews, previews, reviews and more. A focus on independent musicians and producers who are from, working in or playing soon in Scotland.
Pitch: Scotland’s international hip hop showcase expands to two days
Pitch, Scotland’s international conference of hip hop and underground culture, announces the first batch ...
SNACK Bits – Scotland’s Essential New Music (June 2023)
With June comes summer festivals, evenings outdoors, and SNACK Bits covered in factor 50 ...
Hidden Door Festival – Sunday 4th June 2023 (review)
Hidden Door has done it yet again; hijacking an unused space and converting it ...
Hidden Door Festival 2023 (review)
Hidden Door Festival first opened its doors in 2014 and ever since the organisers ...
Billy Got Waves at Hidden Door Festival – Interview
A few hours before his incredible set at Edinburgh’s Hidden Door Festival 2023, Billy ...
Canaan Balsam + Pedro Vian & Daniele Mana at The Glad Café – Live Review
We exist in a time where Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not overthrow us, but ...
Gallus – We Don’t Like The People We’ve Become – Track by Track review
When you’ve built a solid reputation based on your live performances, canning that gig ...
Dreamwife’s Rakel Mjöll chats new album ‘Social Lubrication’, punk, women at festivals and dating advice from Grandmas
Formed in Art School in Brighton in 2014, Dream Wife have built a reputation ...
Debut EP Review: LVRA – soft like steel
‘Welcome to my world, bitch’ says LVRA as the electronic flutter that opens the ...
Music review: SEODAH – Rossum: Experimental Radio – The atmosphere of an unoccupied basement, the shiver that comes just before the jump scare
SEODAH is an acronym for ‘Sound Effects of Death and Horror’, and is the ...
Interview: Post Coal Prom Queen – Music For First Contact
Perpetually inventive and perhaps Scotland’s most charming musical duo, Post Coal Prom Queen are ...
Interview: Glasgow’s Comfort on only dealing only in bangers, the music industry’s co-opting of politics for profit, and new album ‘What’s Bad Enough?’
Machine-precise drumming, frenetic beats, and inimitable stage presence are only some of the factors ...
SNACK has a clear commitment to equality: we were the first, and still the only, Scottish publication to make a Keychange pledge committing to take positive action for a representative music industry.
We committed to a 50/50 gender balance in our coverage in 2021 and have exceeded this pledge annually since.
