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The best of Abba outsells Beatles

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:51:44 GMT

ABBA’S greatest hits collection has overtaken the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to become the UK’s second-biggest selling album of all time, according to the Official Charts Company.

Album review: Daft Punk, Random Access Memories

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:25:16 GMT

Like the ubiquitous single Get Lucky, Daft Punk’s new album is a distillation of pop’s better moments of the last four decades.

Album reviews: Delta Mainline | Texas | Barrule

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:22:24 GMT

Our roundup of the latest releases

Gig review: Mr McFall’s Chamber, Edinburgh

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:37:41 GMT

With empanadas in the bar and candles flickering on the intimate tables that had replaced the usual Queen’s Hall seating, we could just about have been in a sultry Buenos Aires nightclub – well, maybe.

Gig review: Mark Knopfler, Glasgow

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:37:40 GMT

The one over-arching feeling in the air while Mark Knopfler played was a sense of quiet but powerful respectfulness.

Texas’ Sharleen Spiteri on the band’s comeback

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:46:00 GMT

PART tomboy, part rock chick, part soul siren and complete Glasgow girl, Sharleen Spiteri and texas are back. And after 25 years in the business, she’s still got plenty to talk about.

Gary Flockhart: Prince could boost city music scene

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:09:34 GMT

WHAT a difference a year makes. Usually, that’s a line that’s followed by a positive but, sadly, not this time.

Justin Bieber faces Munich monkey bill

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:43:50 GMT

POP star Justin Bieber will have to pay the bill for his monkey’s two month stay at a Munich animal shelter.

Classical review: BBC SSO: The Rite of Spring, Glasgow

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:46:06 GMT

STRAVINSKY reckoned that the conductor should be little more than a time beater.

Gig review: Lana Del Rey, Glasgow

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:41:47 GMT

LANA Del Rey was responsible for a rare moment of unwitting entertainment during this year’s particularly dull Brit Awards ceremony when she thanked her label for “helping turn my life into a work of art”.

Scottish independence: Sharleen Spiteri ‘no’ vote

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:14:29 GMT

POP star Sharleen Spiteri has said she does not believe an independent Scotland would be viable, questioning whether it would have the resources to survive.

One Direction to play Edinburgh’s Murrayfield

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:39:26 GMT

Chart-topping boyband One Direction are to play at Edinburgh’s Murrayfield Stadium next year, it has been announced.

Gig review: Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, Glasgow

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:57:19 GMT

EMMYLOU Harris and Rodney Crowell have been collaborators since he joined her Hot Band in 1975, but it is only with the release of their duets album, Old Yellow Moon, that they have formalised their double act and ostensibly share the billing on this tour.

Arts blog: ‘Uhura is not far off being Bridget Jones in space’

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:57:16 GMT

SEXISM lets down the new Star Trek movie according to trekkie Andrea Mullaney, while David Pollock previews a Cuillins psychogeography project.

‘Tango opera’ brings street style to Edinburgh

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:49:06 GMT

THE essence of Argentine culture is distilled in a version of Astor Piazzolla’s ‘tango opera’ presented by Mr McFall’s Chamber

Pastels making anxious return to Glasgow spotlight

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:47:16 GMT

IT has been 16 years since The Pastels last released an album of their own. This seems hard to credit, even for a man who talks as slowly and carefully as frontman Stephen McRobbie, aka Stephen Pastel, aka the benevolent godfather of Glasgow’s still-thriving independent music scene (a title he will certainly not thank me for bestowing).

Bringing Commonwealth Gaelic diaspora home for 2014

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:40:24 GMT

SAIL a westbound ferry boldly beyond its habitual port of call, tramp the age-old cattle route of a drove road past its market destination then keep going, and you have emigration.

AC/DC back plan for Bon Scott statue in Kirriemuir

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:06:51 GMT

AMBITIOUS plans to erect a life-sized statue of legendary AC/DC front man Bon Scott in his Scottish home town are being backed by the surviving members of the world-renowned music giants.

Susan Boyle could add extra Edinburgh tour date

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:18:21 GMT

Susan Boyle’s Scottish tour tickets could be in such high demand that there is already talk of an extra date being added at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre.

Gig review: Steve Hackett, Glasgow

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:38:30 GMT

“I KNOW what I like and I like what I know,” ran the chorus of sometime Genesis favourite I Know What I Like, one of the less meandering excursions by the classic English prog outfit to be given an outing at this show, and these words seemed to serve as a motto for the crowd here to see the band’s guitarist, Steve Hackett, perform.