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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