Music

The producers of Edinburgh's Hogmanay have announced on Friday that The Fratellis will headline the Night Afore Party on 30 December. The trio will make...

The Liquid Room is already humming when the lights go down. There is an anticipation in the room that feels less like a conventional...

The year 1988 marked a new musical chapter for The Waterboys, and at the OVO Hydro we returned to that sense of discovery. Fisherman’s...

There is something cinematic about Hollywood Vampires before they have played a note. A film shows the four members as skeletons before they transform...

A performance at St Mary's Kirk in Haddington on 11 September will mark the 50th anniversary of the death of famous composer Benjamin Britten. The...

Edinburgh's Summer Sessions 2026 – one of the showpiece events in Edinburgh's concert calendar – will kick off this week. Biffy Clyro, The Cure, Florence + The Machine, Lorde,...

A CAMPAIGN has been launched to honour Edinburgh-born Harry Lauder – legendary singer, comedian and vaudeville virtuoso – with an annual day of celebration. Sir Harry was born in Portobello, Edinburgh and...

The St James Quarter has announced a series of live music and events just in time for the city's summer festivals. The shopping centre will...

Before Luke Combs walks on stage, the story of the show has already begun. Trains pull into Waverley and Haymarket, and fans spill onto...

Opening with the Talking Heads classic "Heaven", Byrne immediately sets the tone, blending concert, theatre, dance and multimedia. The stage feels like a small...

Shirley Manson announced that she was excited about her band's gig at Edinburgh Castle, but she may have hoped for a more pleasant evening...

Thousands of people from Scotland and beyond are expected to travel to the Inner Hebrides, for the 15th sell-out edition of a Scottish music...

Three songs from 1996's breakthrough album "Casanova" took the audience back to the band's heyday. Hidden behind dark sunglasses and dressed in a dark...

Hothouse Flowers emerged during the late 1980s with a run of singles that quickly established them as one of the most distinctive Irish bands...

The long road to the Castle.  Callum Beattie will headline one of the biggest concerts of his career next week before moving on to another...

Growing up, Metallica felt like a subcultural band, something passed between metal fans. At school, a handful of us would gather in the music...

An Edinburgh musician has landed himself a wacky world record - for having the most SLIME in a music video. Johnny Lynch - who performs...

Multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield completes his stint as the University of Edinburgh’s Traditional Artist in Residence with a concert at the Reid Hall on 18...

Synthpop band Magnetic Skies head to Edinburgh on 12 June, to play The Speakeasy.   The three-piece have just unveiled their new track 'Closing In'. Taken...

Aberdeen singer-songwriter Adam Thom and folk trio Alma have come together for a co-headline run, with an Edinburgh gig among the locations announced. Alma are...

There is a standout moment in the original version of Bruce Springsteen's I'm On Fire where his lyrics are darkly, deliberately ambiguous. For Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Laura...

Musician, Julie Fowlis, is going out on the road on a one-of-a-kind Scottish tour this summer. This will mark a major milestone in her career...

Dr John Cooper Clarke is on his way back to Scotland for a run of dates this autumn, including a show in Glasgow in...

I first saw The Charlatans at the Edinburgh Playhouse in June 1991. Almost thirty-five years later, the setting is the Corn Exchange and the...

When Foy Vance walks on stage at the Usher Hall later this year, it will be during a tour marking the end of a...

Brilliantly staged, Sunny Afternoon charts the early years of Sixties’ chart-toppers The Kinks and proves a rip-roaring, feel-good trip down memory lane to a...

John Power is sitting on a couch, under low light, with an acoustic guitar within reach. It feels like we're in his front room,...

US chart-topping American singer-songwriter Sari Schorr is returning to UK stages to perform twelve headline shows in April and May, including in Edinburgh, and...

An Edinburgh record shop owner has had some equipment returned after what appeared to be a brazen theft on Saturday. Darren Yeats, the owner of...

James fans are fanatical, especially in Glasgow.   For decades, the city has been a stronghold, a place that carried the band when they needed it...