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PSB

Aberdeen Music Hall

Public Service Broadcasting

Electronic band entrance crowd with their hypnotic new Berlin-esque sound

Mogwai

Royal Concert Hall

Mogwai

Glasgow legends play a triumphant homecoming show

Noga Erez Kids Against The Machine

Noga Erez
KIDS (Against the Machine)

A fresh, from the ground up reworking of their previous LP

Nation Of Language A Way Forward

Nation Of Language
A Way Forward

Second album from Brooklyn band has the chops

Julia Shapiro Zorked

Julia Shapiro
Zorked

Goth and dream pop-influenced solo album is beautiful but gloomy

Black Honey

St Luke's

Black Honey

London four piece bring the noise to Glasgow’s east end with an energetic show and big love for the tattie scone

Efterklang - Windflowers

Efterklang
Windflowers

Denmark’s ambient pop trio return with pretty if unremarkable album

Philip Frobos Vague Enough To Satisfy

Philip Frobos
Vague Enough To Satisfy

First solo album by Omni frontman comes over like lo-fi Alan Partridge

Nick Cave Warren Ellis

Theatre Royal Glasgow

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

An immaculate conception, and big Nick energy

Karine Polwart - Still As Your Sleeping

Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan
Still As Your Sleeping

Simple, pure and beautiful storytelling

Festival Theatre

Grease The Musical

An exuberant, infectiously energetic production of a classic musical

Life Model

The Glad Cafe

Life Model / Deer Leader

Triumphant return to the stage for two of Glasgow’s finest.

Pokey La Farge In The Blossom

Pokey LaFarge
In the Blossom of Their Shade

Pokey LaFarge presents a collection of songs filled with positive sentiment, lovely melodies and hopeful lyrics

Flowerland Pearl & The Oysters

Pearl and the Oysters
Flowerland

French-Americans’ third album is nice, if too summery

Edinburgh Park

Laura Mvula

A sensational and euphoric close to the Edinburgh International Festival

Old College Quad

Alan Cumming is Not Acting His Age

Superb night of storytelling and show tunes

Kanye West Donda

Kanye West
Donda

Righteous but messy tenth record from ‘Ye’

Goat Headsoup

Goat
Headsoup

Scandinavian shamen’s career-spanning compilation is an intoxicating concoction

Edinburgh Academy Junior School

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Enthusiasts and novices alike appreciate the mastery of both the music and the musicians

Deer Leader
We’ve Met Before, Haven’t We?

Excellent debut record from Glasgow trio reflecting on identity and individualism