Music
Interviews, previews, reviews and more. A focus on independent musicians and producers who are from, working in or playing soon in Scotland.
In Limerence: Jacob Alon Delves Into the Difficult Unspoken Parts of Being a Human
Photo credit: Jules Moskovtchenko Limerence is the feeling of infatuated love, the often involuntary, ...
caroline: The Genre-Defying Collective on Their Second Album and Working with Caroline Polachek
The eight-piece musical collective caroline released their self-titled debut in 2022 and quickly found ...
SNACK Bits (June ’25): Scotland’s Essential New Music Guide
Is everybody in? We’ve had our summer – that May sun spell melted our ...
How Queer Music Shaped Scotland – Small Town Joy by Carrie Marshall
Perhaps best known as the author of the acclaimed memoir Carrie Kills A Man, ...
Scotland’s Festivals and the Gender Balance Problem
Championing the many music festivals of Scotland is a huge part of what we ...
SHEARS new single ‘Arcade Machine’, Scottish single of the summer?
Is it just us, or has no one claimed the mantle of sure-fire summer ...
Femi Kuti – Journey Through Life (album review) Inventive, Propulsive, Fluid, and Hypnotic
Son of the inimitable Fela Kuti the inventor of Afrobeat, Femi Kuti has carved ...
Manic Street Preachers at Glasgow Barrowland, Critical Thinking tour, 12th April 2025 (gig review)
Back with their new album, Critical Thinking, Manic Street Preachers packed out the iconic ...
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.
