Stephen Mcrobbie News Today

We have a special theme on Under the Radar's website this week which we're simply calling Scotland Week. All throughout the week we will be posting interviews, reviews, lists, and blog posts relating to Scotland and in particular Scottish music.

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Forty years ago, a Zimbabwean drummer in Scotland threw away his passport and helped invent the sound of the Eighties. He’s been crossing genres, stretching rhythms, and defying the forces that divide us ever since

The remarkable story of pop's citizen of the word, from an early version of 'Running Up That Hill' to a brilliant anti-apartheid record

From Simple Minds to Joesef - 20 of the best albums from Glasgow musicians

The Christmas burger is back on the menu at The Butchershop Bar & Grill as the festive season begins across Glasgow.

Doomscrolling is one of the perils of our precarious times. You can lose hours to it; lose your mind to it; lose your soul to it.

An adaptation of David Keenan’s novel about a Scottish band who nearly supported Sonic Youth is lovingly detailed

On paper Paul Higgins isn’t the ideal casting for a theatrical adaptation of This Is Memorial Device, the novel by David Keenan which gathered up…

In 1986 the NME’s 22-track cassette defined indie-rock for a new generation. Some bands featured, such as Primal Scream, became stars. But what became of Bogshed, the Mackenzies and the Shrubs?