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Album Review – Doom Loop by Dream Nails

Dream Nails are an all-queer political collective, a chaotic punk rock foursome whose mission ...

‘The Recent’ at Talbot Rice Gallery (EXHIBITION REVIEW)

Situated in Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery, The Recent brings together thirteen artists from across ...

REVIEW: Take Me Somewhere

Take Me Somewhere is an exquisite, and unique festival to Scotland’s art scene. An ...

Book Review – They by Kay Dick

Kay Dick’s recently rediscovered dystopian masterpiece, They (1977), has arrived at a jarringly nose-on ...

Album Review – 2 by Declan Welsh & The Decadent West

Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold – the debut album from Declan Welsh & The Decadent ...

Book – Connective Tissue by Eleanor Thom

Eleanor Thom’s Connective Tissue begins as two stories across time, but they weave together ...

SNACK Bits – Scotland’s Essential New Music (November 2023)

Time is tight.  That’s not just a brilliant track by Booker T. & the ...

Album Review – Exit Light by Raveloe

With the album title and opening song focusing on breaking away, you’d be forgiven ...

Young Fathers at Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow, 23rd October 2023 (Gig review)

I recall listening to Cerys Matthews on BBC 6 Music in 2015: she was ...

EP Review – Restless Dreams by GRAVELLE

Goth pop is arguably the last thing you’d expect to hear blaring from a ...

EP REVIEW – Hex Domestic by Dragged Up

Hex Domestic is four tracks of clanging guitars, gritty bass, and some of the ...

Book Review – Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm

Violence is not always brusque or obvious. It hides, quiet, creeping, historically handed down ...