These music roundups often seem to throw up themes which are unintentional, but undeniable all the same. This latest batch of songs, when...

Yesterday (Sunday 6th May) saw the last in the current run of Scottish Opera‘s Sunday Series: Opera In Concert, and, as with the previous...

Tutti Frutti and Your Cheatin’ Heart. The current Scottish music scene, and Glasgow’s in particular, suggests this rockabilly romance...

Most of our music reviews are a mixed bag when it comes to style and content, but the one you are about to experience definitely has a...

The hope is always that our monthly music reviews offer something of interest to all, but, without wanting to go overboard (although,...

As Boney M once exclaimed, “Oh those Russians”! Although this is Scots Whay Hae! my first literary loves are 19th century Russian...

Welcome one and all to the first New Musical Success of 2018, the SWH! regular review of the best new music to have found its way to our...

“January, sick and tired you’ve been hanging on me”, sang Edinburgh’s Pilot in 1975 and even if you’re not quite sure what it means, you...

This year we are recording three separate Best Of 2017 podcasts, one each for film, music, and books. For the first two, Ali and Ian are...

Mark W. Georgsson, BMX Bandits, Blue Rose Code, Findlay Napier, Stephen McLaren, State Broadcasters, The Miss’s, Annie Booth, Quick,...

There are few things finer than discovering a new band who play music just as you like it. When it happens you want to share with the...

2017 has produced great music of all shapes, sizes and sounds, but the singer/songwriter has had a particularly fine year. Albums by Mark...

If this summer was defined by great singles from the likes of L-Space, Half-Formed Things, Errant Boy, and Radiophonic Tuckshop, to name...

This has been a summer of unexpected treats and great new music from the well-kent and the brand new. What you are about to listen to...

The new music which made its way our way over the last month is as eclectic and unpredictable as the summer itself. There’s classic pop,...

One of the more welcome musical trends of the past couple of years has been the return of the album. Long-playing records where every...

Want to see some of your favourite musicians in one of the most beautiful locations in Scotland? I know I do, and now we both can as The...

To recklessly misquote S. P. Morrissey, “Some months are better than others”, but this month is surely one of the best music reviews we...

For the latest podcast, Ali headed to Edinburgh to talk to poet, writer and musician, Andrew Greig. The first topic of conversation is...

We are going to start with the welcome return of BMX Bandits with their album Forever. For the last 30 years their music has been, in...