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I’m a sucker for a good music reaction video.

I saw The Olllam play at Glasgow’s Cottiers, last night.

Jo Piazza on Jo (pronounced, “Yo”) van Gogh-Bonger, the woman who inherited Vincent’s paintings – at the time, worthless – and turned him into the superstar we know today.

I had a weekend trip to Lisbon, Portugal recently.

Some of the bands I’ve enjoyed most recently tend to hide behind facemasks, and they’ve all got great performances on KEXP.

This looks new to me but, I’m not a daily visitor to The Guardian so, perhaps not.

After 20 years of independent cultural journalism and with a very heavy heart, September’s edition of The Skinny is our final issue.

I’m currently on a family trip to Tenerife - hence the book updates on the site.

Nathan Coley’s We Are The Monument looks like it just sprang up overnight in Glasgow, atop the Glasgow Dental Hospital.

I recently hired a decorator to paint my living room.

Ten years ago I saw Super Furry Animals at the Kelvingrove Bandstand in Glasgow.

Today marks 50 days until the 2026 World Cup.

Simon Phipps’ Brutal Scotland is another in his series looking at brutalist architecture in the UK.

Grateful Gallery is a small, independent art gallery in Glasgow.

Starting on Friday 24 April, and with daily lessons at 3PM UTC, the folks at badwebsiteclub.com are offering to teach you how to build a website.

On Sunday 26 April 2026 I will be taking part in The Kiltwalk Big Stroll.

Torger Jansen is a Norwegian designer working under the name T2 Design.

Car manufacturer Skoda have designed a bicycle bell that can be heard by people wearing noise-cancelling headphones.

RAMS is a graffiti artist from New Zealand, probably most famous for the creating murals on each of the 4 sides of the abandoned 45 Park Place, NYC a few years ago.

Matt Loader from Glasgow-based architecture firm, Loader Monteith in Dezeen magazine talking about Glasgow’s old buildings and their tendency to catch fire: Glasgow’s burning problem is a symptom of a greater failure These fires are … the consequences of a

Architecture & Design site Dezeen have a short video about Souto de Moura and his time working on Braga Municipal Stadium, home of SC Braga.

The Tobacco Merchant’s House in Glasgow’s Merchant City is 250-year old building, owned and maintained by the Scottish Civic Trust, who work from the building.

Sharon Zhang from Truthout on Trump’s latest: Trump Uses Same Language Cited by ICJ in Genocide Ruling Against Israel.

I recently picked up a couple of Guy Delisle books, doing what you’re not supposed to and literally judging them by their covers.

Chris Morris’ cult classic (all Morris’ work comes into that category I feel) Brass Eye first aired in 1997. 20 years later, Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes was a behind-the-scenes movie made by director Michael Cumming and screened only during a short…

The Angine de Poitrine zeitgeist will probably lead to an increase in the purchase of microtonal guitars and basses.

personalsit.es That’s it.

Jonathan MacKenzie has put together a modular synth cover of Angine de Poitrine’s Sarniezz.

The Nerve is new to me.

2 years ago, YouTuber Tom Scott hung up his video-making boots after a decade of making weekly content for the platform.

It’s been a while since I’ve listened to their podcast but Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski’s Syntax FM have recently been in my YouTube algorithm with their riff on March Madness, Mad CSS. 16 of the best CSS players in the world.

Kottke.org recently posted a link to an archive of the NME magazine, found on the Internet Archive site.

I spent some time figuring out what I’d like ronnie.fyi to look like and, ultimately, went back to a Figma layout I’d come up with about a year ago.

I wouldn’t call it an unqualified success, but the new SNL UK was much better than I thought it would be.

Angine de Poitrine Their whole KEXP set.

Jesse David Fox for Vulture sat down earlier this year for an 90-minute conversation with Nate Bargatze, and writers Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell.

Some media I’ve consumed recently: Hitler: The Rise of Evil (Part 2), continuing the recent deep-dive into the WW2-universe Race, see above Taskmaster, seasons 1 to 4, rewatching since my daughter is newly obsessed with the show LSD by Cardiacs Shredded:…

After a little bit of scrambling about this morning, I managed to get 2x tickets for Cardiacs at Saint Luke’s, Glasgow.

I’d initially thought this was written by Andy Bell, head honcho at Piccalilli (where the article is hosted), but it was written by Liam Egan, whose work I wasn’t familiar with.

Vibe coding is an emerging software development practice that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate functional code from natural language prompts, accelerating development, and making app building more accessible, especially for those with limited…

English rock band (although the term “rock” is selling them short), Cardiacs have been around since 1977 with albums and EPs being released throughout the 1980s and 90s.

World War 2 is my Roman Empire “Women have no idea how often the men in their lives think about the Roman Empire” Or, so the meme goes.

For a while—in the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s—it felt like nerds were making the world a better place.