The new single by Scottish rock band Idlewild, Come On Ghost, will be the second taken from their latest album Everything Ever Written.
It will be released on February 9 with the album following shortly after on February 16.
It is the second single released by the band since Collect Yourself, which marked the band's return after five years apart.
The band's eighth studio album has been produced by the band's guitarist Rod Jones and mixed by John Agnello whom they collaborated with on their 2002 release The Remote Part.
It features new band members Luciano Rossi and Andrew Mitchell.
The album was predominantly written on the Isle of Mull.
The new album which will be supported by a run of live shows in spring 2015 including Glasgow's ABC on March 7 and 8.
www.pledgemusic.com/idlewild
The BBC, under its BBC Music banner, is featuring more artists and performances than before from the Celtic Connections festival.
Coverage will be across the BBC on radio, television, iPlayer and online throughout the festival from January 16.
For the first time it is planned that all the performances for BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and Radio Scotland will be screened online.
There will be two highlights programmes on BBC Two Scotland, featuring performances from many of the artists at the BBC's CCA sessions as well as a programme dedicated to the opening concert of the festival.
BBC Radio Scotland kicks off its coverage on January 16 when Janice Forsyth hosts a special edition of The Culture Studio from 2.00 - 4.00 pm at the CCA in Glasgow.
From 19 to 23 January, the station will also be broadcasting live music from the venue from 8pm.
www.bbc.co.uk/celticconnections
The Garden, a short opera, will be performed in the Circle Studio of the Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow, from January 22.
It has been composed by John Harris and written and directed by Zinnie Harris.
It is based on the original short play of the same name by Harris, which was commissioned by the Traverse Theatre in 2009.
This new small-scale 40 minute operatic version was commissioned by Sound, Scotland's festival of new music, and premiered in Octoberat as a site-specific performance in a flat in Aberdeen.
It is being remounted in the Circle Studio before touring to Potsdam in Germany in June.
It features two singing actors - Pauline Knowles and Alan McHugh - and the score is performed by the composer using full-range studio monitor speakers and sub-woofers on a vintage Yamaha DX-7 synthesiser, with additional computer-triggered samples.
www.citz.co.uk
The fourth season of the Edinburgh Iranian Festival is in February.
Festival-goers will be able to take tea in a Persian teahouse, sample Iranian cinema, and learn traditional music and calligraphy.
The event will run from February 6-16.
It will feature a fashion show at the National Museum of Scotland, and an Iranian film season organised with the Filmhouse cinema as well as an art exhibition of works inspired by Iran based on the theme of Perception, at Summerhall, as well as a separate exhibition of the works of Iranian artist Hassan Meshkinfam at the Sutton Gallery.
More than 5,000 Iranians currently live in Scotland.
The 2015 festival season is partnered with British Council Iran as part of their UK-Iran Season of Culture.
www.ediranfest.co.uk
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