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The Skinny's Scottish Albums of the 2010s
#20 Belle & Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance [2015, Matador] #19 The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and N... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Scottish Albums of the 2010s: Industry Picks
Rustie – Glass Swords[Warp, 2011]Rustie's debut album came out the year I started Uni so it definitely soundtracked a very particular time in my life, ... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Great Scots: 2019 in Scottish Music
At the end of November we celebrated our Top Ten Scottish Albums of the Year, but as is always the way, the amount of top quality music coming out of Sc... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Sounds of the Summer: Scottish Music Round-up
The Skinny is proud to present to you its albums of the decade. The 2020s were some stretch. Who’d have thought a nationwide lockdown imposed by the ou... Read more »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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Scottish New Music Round-up: June 2022
Wow. May was the month that kept giving, with new music from Glasgow’s Medicine Cabinet, The Plastic Youth, Shears and AMUNDA; I Solar released their N... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
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Rip It Up: A Scottish Music Timeline
The 1950s and 1960s in Scottish Music 1955: Lonnie Donegan’s Rock Island Line is released. Originally recorded by the American blues singer Leadb... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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The Cure to headline Glasgow Summer Sessions 2019
Iconic rock band The Cure are set to headline next year's Glasgow Summer Sessions with a headline show on Friday 16 August 2019 at Bellahouston Park. The pe... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 24-31 Oct: Film Festivals & more
Two film festivals celebrating international cinema kick off in Scotland this week, with both celebrating an incredible number of years in existence. Africa... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 7-13 Mar: Glasgow Comedy Festival + more
There’s not been much worth laughing about of late, so we’re feeling hopeful that our funny bones are about to be well and truly tickled in the w... Read more »| Updated about 2 months ago -
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Righting the Ship: A chat with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard
“I remember being on a call with the rest of the guys, in the depths of the pandemic, and saying, 'I’m never gonna complain again about a Sunday ... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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Franz Ferdinand @ PJ Molloys, Dunfermline, 31 Jan
This year’s Independent Venue Week sees a host of big stars and up-and-comers crammed into tiny venues across the British isles, and what a treat Scotl... Read more »| Updated about 2 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 23-30 Jan: Burns Night & more
If your address to the haggis was a bit of a fail last year, fortunately you've got a chance to get it right this year, or every year on 25 January for the r... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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What's On Scotland 1-8 Nov: NEoN
Annual festival of digital and technological art, NEoN returns for its tenth year in venues across Dundee next week, from 6-11 November. Just one feature of... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Fatherson @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 5 Apr
Given that tonight’s show is to commemorate the decade that has passed since Fatherson’s debut album I Am An Island was released, it fe... Read more »| Updated 17 days ago -
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King Creosote revisits KC Rules OK
Ahead of King Creosote's conversation with Michael Pedersen and Nicola Meighan to kick off Summerhall's The Dissection series, we're publishing thi... Read more »| Updated about 5 years ago -
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Stinging Songs: Armellodie Records at Unbound
Sometimes the best things in life are simple. For one night only, three bands and three authors will come together in the corner of the Book Festival for a n... Read more »| Updated almost 5 years ago -
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We Wanna Be Free: Screamadelica at 30
'We wanna be free to do what we wanna do / And we wanna get loaded and we wanna have a good time!' So demands Peter Fonda in the intro to Loaded, in a speec... Read more »| Updated over 2 years ago -
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Record Store Day 2021: Shop Recommendations
Record Store Day is back with not one but two Saturdays (12 Jun and 17 Jul) stuffed with special limited edition releases. We spoke to a few of our favourite... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
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Malcolm Middleton on his new Human Don't Be Angry record
Malcolm Middleton first found fame in the mid-90s as one half of Arab Strap. Middleton and Aidan Moffat split in 2006 after a decade of stellar releases and ... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Never chasing your attention: The Yummy Fur interview
The man strolling through The Old Hairdressers should be, by rights, turning people’s heads. This is a no-frills bar beloved by Glasgow’s DIY mus... Read more »| Updated over 4 years ago -
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Scott Hutchison: A Tribute
When the devastating news came on Friday 11 May about our beloved Scott Hutchison I was in disbelief and the truth of it is, I still am. I felt numb. I perso... Read more »| Updated almost 6 years ago -
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Caught Up In a Moment: Young Fathers on Heavy Heavy
There can be real magic in the mundane. We see it every day – in the small, unremarkable actions of regular people which turn into extraordinary feats.... Read more »| Updated about 1 year ago -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade - A Muso's Pick
One particular record from this decade that made an impact on me was The Campfire Headphase by Boards of Canada. When it was released in 2005 I was still at ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #10: Mogwai - Mr Beast
With the tag “post-rock” serving as a convenient journalistic denouement for fifteen years of innovative, rousing, often sinister, occasionally w... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #3: Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
It's easy to cast the mind back to the dawning of the millennium and perhaps fondly recall a pre-9/11 sense of optimism and renewal – I mean, the bug d... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #15: De Rosa - Prevention
The album which immediately comes to my mind as Scottish Album of the Decade is 2009's Prevention by De Rosa. I remember my first time watching them play in ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #1: Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
When placing Idlewild’s sophomore album 100 Broken Windows into the context of Scottish albums of the decade, it becomes all too clear how much the mus... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #11: Aereogramme – Sleep and Release
Another forward-thinking head-scratcher from the vaults of Chemikal Underground, Sleep and Release elicited genre-bending sloganeering like ‘dream meta... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #19: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
It was the mating call of four art school underachievers committed to tape. Having toiled in various no-hope outfits throughout the 90s, Alex, Bob, Nick and ... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago -
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Scottish Albums of the Decade #5: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
If 1998's Music has the Right to Children was the record that opened up modern electronic music to whole new vistas of possibility – both in terms of i... Read more »| Updated over 14 years ago