Brighton's Grace Carter was in Edinburgh this week supporting Rag N Bone Man in Princes Street Gardens as part of the Summer Sessions. Spotify playlists are a wonderful thing. In doing research for the Access All Areas podcast I regularly listen to the New Music Friday playlist. Way back in June 2017 I

Electric Fields will take place at Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries & Galloway from 30th August to 1st September. It's not long in coming around. One of our favourite festivals on the summer calendar is less than 3 weeks away and with stage and day splits having been announced this week it's

The 2018 Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMAs) are back and will take place at Saint Luke’s on Thursday 25th October. The awards are sponsored by Glasgow’s Rebel Rebel barbers and exist to showcase and celebrate Scottish artists through 7 unique music awards. Since the awards launched in 2010 winners have included the

Edinburgh Music Tours will launch Edinburgh's Greatest Hits, a guided walking tour of the capital's music scene, on Saturday 16th June. Led by music journalists and musicians, the 90-minute tours tell the story of Edinburgh's music scene from the People's Festival Ceilidh in 1951 to present day hit-makers such as

Electric Fields will celebrate its 5th Birthday in style at Drumlanrig Castle with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds on headline duty. How do you take the best weekend of the summer and make it even better? You can't, can you? Don't tell that to the organisers of Electric Fields as every

Alive & Amplified rounds up the latest releases from Scotland. Declan Welsh & The Decadent West - Useless You wait ages for a bus and 2 turn up at the same time. Hot on the heels of releasing former A&A Track Of The Week 'Nazi Boys' Glasgow's Declan Welsh and The Decadent

Alive & Amplified rounds up the newest releases from Catholic Action, Bottle Note, Stillhound ft EMILIE & WHITE. Catholic Action - In Memory Of Glasgow's Catholic Action have released their debut album 'In Memory Of' in the last couple of weeks. It feels like it's been an age since I saw them at

Nottingham's Eyre Llew have released their stunning debut album 'Atelo' In around April 2015, I received a message through The Great Escape Delegate portal from a band from Nottingham called Eyre Llew inviting me along to their set. They said they were influenced by bands such as Sigur Ros & Bon Iver so I

Alive & Amplified pick 10 bands for you to check out at Electric Fields this weekend. Look 👆 honestly look 👆 how are we supposed to pick just 10 bands for you to see at Electric Fields. It's one of our favorite weekends of the summer. Electric Fields returns to Drumlanrig Castle this weekend with one