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2013
June
  • Live review: RockNess 2013 and The Stones Roses @ Glasgow Green
  • Music Alliance Pact - June 2013
  • goNORTH 2013 review
  • The 2013 SAY Award shortlist and the rage against the machine
May
  • Music highlights of West End Festival 2013
  • I know what you'll do this summer: a guide to festival season in Scotland
  • The Pop Cop’s Subcity Radio live sessions 2012/13
  • Music Alliance Pact - May 2013
  • All At Sea: delving into the mind of the maker
  • 40 musicians answer the Scottish independence question
  • Constructing the perfect pop song: Prides - Out Of The Blue
April
  • Should a rock concert have a code of conduct?
  • "If this award didn't recognise these enormously popular albums we'd have failed abysmally" - why Emeli Sandé and Calvin Harris belong on the SAY Award 2013 longlist
  • Scottish guide to Record Store Day 2013
  • Linn's studio-quality downloads - meet the company plotting the death of mp3s
  • Music Alliance Pact - April 2013
  • The 6 Most Random Uses For A Scottish Musician
  • Let's help drummer Robbie Cooper beat cancer
  • State-sponsored sex saunas are OK but no house concerts, please
March
  • Scotland's rap battle revolution
  • Cairn in the community - how Scotland's hottest orchestra infiltrated the underground
  • How to educate yourself in the business of music
  • Music Alliance Pact - March 2013
  • Brew at the Bog 2013: a festival for the frugal
  • Get rich or try lying
  • Live review: Frightened Rabbit @ Barrowland, Glasgow
February
  • The SAMAs 2013: our version of events
  • T in the Park 2013 - something for everyone?
  • Music Alliance Pact - February 2013
  • Alright, love
  • Sync or swim
  • The end of Endor, the start of Fake Major
January
  • The best Scottish music photo of 2012
  • Frightened Rabbit: Doomed relationships, Big Brother and the missing $28,000
  • Celtic Connections 2013 - the highlights
  • Music Alliance Pact - January 2013
  • A letter from America
  • 10 acts to discover in 2013
  • Scottish music calendar 2013
2012
December
  • The Pop Cop blog 2012: A year in pictures
  • 20 songs to discover in 2012
  • The best albums of 2012
  • Music Alliance Pact - December 2012
  • Hopelessly devoted: Meet the superfans
November
  • Father Sculptor: Kick those heavy boots off, lie down & press play
  • A guide to good gig photography
  • Shut up shop
  • Music Alliance Pact - November 2012
  • Best Scottish Music Photo of 2012 competition
  • Will cinema save or sink live music?
  • Sons & Daughters, love and laughter, tears of sadness and happiness
October
  • A first look at Celtic Connections 2013
  • The worlds collide but all that I want is a shady lane
  • Meet the parents
  • Music Alliance Pact - October 2012
  • Tha mi toilichte ur coinneachadh
  • The ex files: how much does it hurt to see your old band get famous?
  • How do you persuade people to buy records? Answers on a postcard
September
  • Let's hear it for the girls
  • Blochestra: the orchestra for all
  • Stream if you want to go faster – why all music will eventually become 'try before you buy'
  • "Our left arm didn't know what our little toes were doing" - Hamish Jolly vows to right the wrongs of Haddow Fest
  • Music Alliance Pact - September 2012
  • Hip-hop is our folk music
  • Crap Tat Guess Who?
  • The second (and hopefully neverending) Scottish New Music Awards - by The Positive Troll
August
  • The September Issue
  • Thank fuck you're not dead: The post-27 Club
  • Competition: Get your song on the Music Alliance Pact's 50th edition
  • Getting high with Bradley from S Club 7: A guide to Freshers' Week 2012
  • Live Review: #UNRAVEL @ The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
  • Music Alliance Pact - August 2012
  • The five best albums you've never heard
  • Set-nav: why more musicians should get off the beaten track
  • I’ve some pretty big boots to fill so I'll make a start with a dose of rabies and some hangover cures
  • Friends In America: the Tesco interview
July
  • Live review: Wickerman Festival 2012
  • Scottish Music Crossword
  • Songs of praise: an introduction to CHURCHES, pop messiahs
  • Music Alliance Pact - July 2012
  • King Tut's Summer Nights 2012, here we come!
  • T in the Park 2012: Stage times, playlist, TV schedule
  • Shambles Miller goes speed dating
  • Scotland's shame: Tucker
June
  • Live review: West End Festival Closing Party @ Oran Mor, Glasgow
  • "I'm not trying to be some sort of activist" - Louis Abbott on Admiral Fallow's rule-bending pop album
  • Live blog: Scottish Album of the Year Award 2012
  • Music Alliance Pact - June 2012
  • Five years ago today, The Pop Cop blog was born...
  • The Pop Cop's Subcity Radio live sessions 2011/12
  • The making of Detour TV
  • "Sometimes I think I won't be able to write another song ever again" - Rachel Sermanni's voyage of discovery
May
  • How surround sound is revolutionising live music
  • Piss artists: Toilet graffiti in Glasgow gig venues
  • Save BBC Introducing in Scotland campaign: The end
  • Music Alliance Pact - May 2012
  • T Break 2012: The chosen ones
  • Live review: Brew at the Bog 2012
  • Snap happy: the SoundExposed exhibition of Scottish music photography
April
  • London calling
  • Music highlights of West End Festival 2012
  • A guide to free live music on Record Store Day 2012 (but please don't ask me to buy any records)
  • Music Alliance Pact - April 2012
  • Scottish Album of the Year Award - Longlist analysed (by Amazon customers)
  • Scottish Album of the Year Award - "It's not a competition: it's a celebration, an opportunity, a platform"
  • Admiral Fallow's new album leaks, band furious
March
  • Charlotte Church, cheap trains and amazing Scottish talent - a guide to Brew at the Bog 2012
  • Why it's alright to let a DIY label do the dirty work for your band
  • The life-changing potential of Wide Days and goNORTH
  • Play as you earn
  • Music Alliance Pact - March 2012
  • The real independence question: Will Scotland get its own Eurovision entry?
  • Pay to play - three little words, one big problem
February
  • If I'd been able to come up with a title that conveys just how much I love The Jezabels it would've been here
  • T in the Park 2012 line-up
  • You gotta fight for your right to party
  • Music Alliance Pact - February 2012
  • The Pop Cop guide to making a Valentine's Day card
  • It's the taking apart that counts
  • Save BBC Introducing in Scotland campaign: where we’re at (part 3)
  • Live review: Celtic Connections 2012
January
  • Happy feats: Music innovations that will make your life better
  • The best Scottish music photo of 2011
  • Why SOPA + PIPA spell trouble
  • 140-character assassinations: Aidan Moffat's greatest hits on Twitter
  • Music Alliance Pact - January 2012
  • Scottish Musicians' Cookbook
  • Generation next: King Tut's New Year's Revolution 2012
  • Scottish music calendar 2012
  • Top 10 tips of 2012
2011
December
  • Hogmanay happy returns
  • The best songs of 2011
  • The best albums of 2011
  • Music Alliance Pact - December 2011
  • The dos and don'ts of band T-shirts
  • Poll taxing
  • Save BBC Introducing in Scotland campaign: where we’re at (part 2)
  • Well, I can’t wait for Christmas...
November
  • Coming in from the cold with Glasgow Popfest 2011
  • Best Scottish Music Photo of 2011 competition
  • Live review: Arches @ Stereo, Glasgow
  • Music Alliance Pact - November 2011
  • "Quite rude, a bit funny and honest" - meet Glasgow PodcART's architect
  • Make Sparks: the promo video kings
  • We want your band T-shirts
  • Sleazy does it!
October
  • An open letter to songwriters: explaining your lyrics makes your music more likeable
  • An alternative look at Celtic Connections 2012
  • Save BBC Introducing in Scotland campaign: where we're at
  • Live review: Kyla La Grange @ The Captain's Rest, Glasgow
  • Music Alliance Pact - October 2011
  • Opportunity Ox
  • Definitely MOBO
  • Clear me a space to gaze at the stars
  • The evolution of Beerjacket
September
  • "I did not contemplate death. Not even for half a second" - We Were Promised Jetpacks' guitarist on conquering cancer
  • "You automatically want to guard what you have when you feel it's in danger" - why Siobhan Wilson swapped her friends in France for Friends In America
  • Rocktoberfest 2011
  • A dose of Jose Vanders
  • Music Alliance Pact - September 2011
  • Twitter wars: Avalanche Records vs Los Campesinos!
  • The first (and hopefully last) Scottish New Music Awards
  • The day we listened to every song from all 12 shortlisted Mercury Prize albums in one go
August
  • Freshers' Week 2011: A beginner's guide to Scotland
  • Live review: The National, Wye Oak @ Academy, Glasgow
  • There Will Be Fireworks album #2: The making of their masterpiece
  • The major label massacre
  • Music Alliance Pact - August 2011
  • The Goss: a catch-up
  • What's your favourite song of all time?
  • Reviews: reviewed
  • August 1st and everything after
July
  • Stars in the making: Café Disco
  • The Cinematics (2003-2011) - "Basically everything we did had to be acceptable to American girls”
  • Fest of times, worst of times
  • The Wickerman Festival: hoachin' with talent
  • Music Alliance Pact - July 2011
  • Live review: T in the Park 2011
  • T in the Park 2011 stage times
  • Is 2011 shaping up to be the weakest year for albums in recent memory?
  • Ten reasons why the Northern Lights festival failed
June
  • Dear T in the Park, MAKE IT STOP
  • Live review: Insider 2011 (written by three insiders)
  • Live review: Frightened Rabbit @ Burgh Hall, Peebles
  • GoNorth 2011 review
  • Music Alliance Pact - June 2011
  • RockNess vs Doune The Rabbit Hole
  • Live review: Detour's Wee Jaunt #3
  • Shut the folk up!
  • Top 10 music highlights of Glasgow's West End Festival 2011
May
  • Can this ticketless fan get into a gig that sold out five months ago?
  • The Pop Cop's Subcity Radio live sessions 2010/11
  • Stag & Dagger 2011 running order
  • Dot JR: "I'm still Jimmy from the block"
  • Music Alliance Pact - May 2011
  • T Break 2011: The chosen ones
  • What music blogs mean to Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison
  • "I don't know if he's right in the head" - Kassidy kick back against their NME nemesis
  • If you build it...
April
  • Hairy Area - Scotland's new supergroup
  • Emma's Imagination: the 'Must NOT Be The Music' interview
  • "I have a problem with nationality" - Alexi Murdoch's identity crisis
  • Music Alliance Pact - April 2011
  • What I learned at Wide Days
  • Record Store Day: A love story
  • The Pop Co-op
March
  • Will Haddow Fest stumble and fall?
  • Give me one reason why this band aren't famous
  • Spare me the public displays of disaffection
  • Wide Days: Broadening your musical horizons
  • Music Alliance Pact - March 2011
  • The collateral damage of SXSW
  • Live review: Song Of Return, Letters @ King Tut's, Glasgow
  • Live review: Admiral Fallow @ The Arches, Glasgow
  • Film reviews: You Instead and Upside Down
February
  • Live review: Kid Canaveral @ Stereo, Glasgow
  • "Neds are not welcome at T in the Park" - Geoff Ellis: the Facebook interview
  • Wrapped up in books
  • Music Alliance Pact - February 2011
  • Award ceremonies: who cares wins?
  • 2,453 days and counting... will the wait for Mylo's second album ever end?
  • I and love and you
  • Live review: There Will Be Fireworks @ Captain's Rest, Glasgow
January
  • All you need to know about goNorth 2011
  • Live review: Celtic Connections 2011
  • The best Scottish music photo of 2010
  • What's it really like to go out with a pop star?
  • Music Alliance Pact - January 2011
  • Glasgow in song, on a map
  • Dot JR - the future King of Pop
  • The Scots musician who conquered a world without leaving his house
  • Ones to watch in 2011
2010
December
  • The curious case of the Glasgow band who signed to Columbia before they'd even played a gig
  • Live review: Belle & Sebastian @ Barrowland, Glasgow
  • Music Alliance Pact - December 2010
  • Live review: Arcade Fire @ SECC, Glasgow
  • The best songs of 2010
  • The best albums of 2010
  • Live review: Frightened Rabbit @ Barrowland, Glasgow
November
  • Best Scottish live music photo of 2010 competition
  • Live review: The National, Phosphorescent @ Academy, Glasgow
  • What's in a name change?
  • Live review: Jimmy Eat World @ Barrowland, Glasgow
  • Exclusive: Frightened Rabbit quit FatCat to sign to Atlantic Records
  • Music Alliance Pact - November 2010
  • Live review: Broken Records @ The Arches, Glasgow
  • Do musicians make good music journalists?
  • How popular are Scottish albums in Scotland?
  • Family tree of Scottish musicians
October
  • Live review: The Enchanted Forest 2010 @ Pitlochry
  • How do you make money out of music?
  • What's cooking at Celtic Connections 2011
  • Music Alliance Pact - October 2010
  • Straight to video
  • When winners are losers
  • Look who's talking!
  • Live review: Mumford & Sons @ Academy, Glasgow
  • Music Alliance Pact 2nd Anniversary Compilation
September
  • Rocktoberfest 2010
  • "I don't want to be remembered as the girl who won Must Be The Music"
  • Live review: Two Door Cinema Club @ Oran Mor, Glasgow
  • Music Alliance Pact - September 2010
  • Loopallu: Quite possibly the best small festival in Scotland
  • Live review: Freelance Whales, The New Pornographers @ Oran Mor, Glasgow
  • We built this city on rock and roll
  • The Mercury Prize is fucked up, but not how you think it is
August
  • College rock: A music guide to Freshers' Week 2010
  • Robyn - Hang With Me: the greatest pop song of our generation
  • "I was battered unconscious. They only stopped because a woman came round the corner and saw it happening"
  • The gender reversal challenge
  • Music Alliance Pact - August 2010
  • Detour: the live wire daredevils
  • Five bands who should be heard and not seen
  • How to sell out a festival the Belladrum way
  • Fringe benefits
July
  • Miller Filtered Music: The bullshit hits the fan
  • Professional music journalism is dead. Discuss.
  • Is watching local bands at a festival a bit of a waste?
  • Music Alliance Pact - July 2010
  • Live review: T in the Park 2010
  • Blogging 'bout a revolution
  • Can everyone stop fighting please?
  • T in the Park 2010... the countdown begins
June
  • Music vs art at the Kelburn Garden Party
  • No news is bad news
  • Scottish songs covered: who gets your vote?
  • T Break 2010: The chosen ones
  • Music Alliance Pact – June 2010
  • Everything continues
May
  • Music Alliance Pact – May 2010
  • Scotland's kingmaker
  • Live review: The Kays Lavelle @ Stereo, Glasgow
  • Treasure islands
April
  • Live review: The Futureheads, Admiral Fallow @ Oran Mor, Glasgow
  • Go get 'em, Tigerfest
  • Wish you were here?
  • Hey girls, hey boys
  • Music Alliance Pact – April 2010
  • All over the shop
  • What becomes of the broken-hearted?
  • Live review: James @ Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
  • Belle of the Bowlie
  • Live review: Galleries @ Captain's Rest, Glasgow
March
  • Rockin' in the fee world
  • Win tickets for Hinterland 2010
  • Are we human or are we Panda?
  • Music Alliance Pact – March 2010
  • Win tickets to see Amy Macdonald at The Classic Grand
  • Don't panic at the disco
  • Live review: Mumford & Sons @ ABC 1, Glasgow
  • Complete A-Z of Scottish musicians on Twitter
February
  • "We’ll butter your bread but you better make sure you eat it properly"
  • Let's talk about Tex!
  • Sitting on the Fence with Homegame
  • Music Alliance Pact – February 2010
  • Happy Valentine's Day... here's your present
  • Attack of the clones
  • The best albums of the decade (2000-09)
  • Live review: Celtic Connections 2010
January
  • The Winter Of Mixed Drinks: one play, one review
  • Haddow Fest: The latest member of Scotland's multi-venue festival craze
  • The best Scottish music photo of 2009
  • Introducing Bandcamp, the MySpace slayer
  • Music Alliance Pact – January 2010
  • Five bands with secret Scottish connections
  • Playing the Celtic way
  • Time to say goodbye
  • The Pop Cop's hottest 10 tips of 2010
2009
December
  • Going the whole Hog
  • Live review: Frightened Rabbit @ ABC 1, Glasgow
  • The best albums of 2009
  • The best songs of 2009
  • Music Alliance Pact – December 2009
  • Best Scottish live music photo of 2009 competition
  • Mistletoe not whine
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Live review: Regina Spektor @ Academy, Glasgow
  • Live review: Homecoming Live - The Final Fling @ SECC/Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow
November
  • Who says you can't teach an old blog new tricks?
  • Andy Murray raps, a nation covers its ears
  • Compact discs - goodbye and good riddance
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Sounds like
  • Music Alliance Pact – November 2009
  • Putting your money where your mouth is
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Snow Patrol: an apology
  • If I said you had a beautiful album, would you hold it against me?
October
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Tweet nothings
  • Turn around, Bright Eyes
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Scotland's got Talent
  • Classic F.M.
  • "I didn’t make the album I wanted to last time - I had to exorcise that feeling"
  • Music Alliance Pact – October 2009
  • Show us your tips and win £50 of HMV vouchers
  • Exclusive: Frightened Rabbit reveal title of third album, add new member
  • Nou Camp to new amp: When footballers swap goals for guitars
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Rocktoberfest 2009
September
  • Live review: General Fiasco @ Stereo, Glasgow
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Flying the flag for Scotland: A year of MAP (2008-09)
  • Too many indie bands, not enough chiefs
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Step Away From The Computer #16: Loopallu
  • Music Alliance Pact – September 2009
  • Live review: Mumford & Sons @ King Tut's, Glasgow
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Live review: Okkervil River @ Oran Mor, Glasgow
  • Band campus
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Live review: Brian Wilson @ Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
August
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Step Away From The Computer #15: Wizard Festival
  • Scotland the brave
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Step Away From The Computer #14: Sounds In The Grounds
  • Step Away From The Computer #13: SOSfest
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Music Alliance Pact – August 2009
  • Rigid moans: The Edge of reason
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Live review: Roddy Hart @ The Universal, Glasgow
  • Step Away From The Computer #12: Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival
  • Weekend Anthem
  • One tour, one album: Crowd pleasing or money seizing?
July
  • Step Away From The Computer #11: Kilmarnock Edition Festival
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Age against the machine
  • Step Away From The Computer #10: Wickerman
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Music Alliance Pact – July 2009
  • Live review: T in the Park 2009
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Step Away From The Computer #9: T in the Park
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Step Away From The Computer #8: Electric Bay
  • Live review: Silversun Pickups @ Oran Mor, Glasgow
June
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Step Away From The Computer #7: Insider
  • Sound as a pound
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Step Away From The Computer #6: The Garden Party
  • Music Alliance Pact – June 2009
  • Weekend Anthem
  • Step Away From The Computer #5: RockNess
  • Live review: Derren Brown - Enigma @ Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
  • Weekend Anthem
  • T Break 2009: The chosen ones
  • "Most of the record is based around all the shit things men do"
  • Live review: Malcolm Middleton @ Mono, Glasgow
May
  • Summer in the city
  • "I want to make this really clear, I did not beat up Amy Macdonald"
  • Step Away From The Computer #4: Stag & Dagger
  • Music Alliance Pact – May 2009
  • "We just had to stand there taking envelopes of money. It was like The Godfather. If you marry a Sicilian, you do OK"
  • Live review: Hockey @ ABC 1, Glasgow
  • Why politicians telling radio stations what to play is a good thing
  • Hinterland 2009 review
April
  • Step Away From The Computer #3: Big In Falkirk
  • Step Away From The Computer #2: Hinterland
  • Identity crisis
  • Live review: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead @ Oran Mor, Glasgow
  • Music Alliance Pact – April 2009
  • Step Away From The Computer #1: Homegame
  • The money shot
  • Girls allowed
  • Live review: The Xcerts @ Fopp, Glasgow
March
  • Win a pair of tickets to the Hinterland festival
  • So what's The Goss?
  • Picture the scene...
  • SXSW's Tartan army
  • Music Alliance Pact – March 2009
  • Live review: Jack's Mannequin @ Academy 3, Manchester
  • Live review: Silent Rave @ Central Station, Glasgow
  • X marks the spot
  • FLASH! Ahhhh-ahhhhh!
February
  • General election
  • Closed for business. Pleasure continues.
  • As seen on screen
  • Music Alliance Pact – February 2009
  • Live review: Ray LaMontagne @ Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
  • Woo who?
  • Live review: Beerjacket, The Second Hand Marching Band @ Oran Mor, Glasgow
  • Music jobs in Scotland do exist... yes, we can prove it
January
  • No contest
  • The Homecoming hero
  • Win two tickets to see Joe Brooks
  • The greatest Scottish collaborations - who gets your vote?
  • Music Alliance Pact – January 2009
  • Celtic rejections
  • The best Scottish music photo of 2008
  • New Year's revelations: Our top tips for 2009
2008
December
  • Theatre review: Sunshine On Leith @ Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
  • The best albums of 2008
  • The best songs of 2008
  • Best Scottish live music photo of 2008 competition
  • Music Alliance Pact – December 2008
  • Strictly come dancing
  • 'Twas the sh*te before Christmas
  • Live review: The Gaslight Anthem @ The Garage, Glasgow
  • The great Coldplay swindle
November
  • Live review: Travis, The Fratellis, Attic Lights, Sergeant @ Carling Academy, Glasgow
  • Live review: Pete & The Pirates @ King Tut's, Glasgow
  • To school for cool
  • Second Hand news
  • Music Alliance Pact – November 2008
  • The day the music died
  • Live review: Okkervil River @ Oran Mor, Glasgow
  • Live review: Sigur Ros @ Carling Academy, Glasgow
  • To absent friends
October
  • It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone...
  • Live review: Noah And The Whale @ The Arches, Glasgow
  • Inconvenient truths
  • Company check!
  • Music Alliance Pact – October 2008
  • Live review: Mumford & Sons @ Nice 'n' Sleazy, Glasgow
  • Original Cyn
  • The village people
  • Live review: Frightened Rabbit & We Were Promised Jetpacks @ The Arches, Glasgow
September
  • Rocktoberfest 2008
  • Let's do launch
  • "The whole experience was stealing my love of music"
  • Live review: The Little Ones @ King Tut's, Glasgow
  • School of rock
  • Glasvegas - Glasvegas album review
  • "There were people on that panel who were tearing their hair out in exasperation that OK Computer didn't win"
  • Hydro Connect review 2008
August
  • Location, location, location
  • Party piece
  • Turn on the BBC
  • Tribute
  • Live music, dying morals
  • Past perfect
  • Love at first site
  • The prince of Whales
  • Ten rapid: A decade of Diskant
  • Saint Andrew
  • We're giving away tickets for the Hydro Connect festival!
July
  • Staying out for the summer: Feugh Fest, Loopallu and D