Music
The Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres.
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Live MusicDeath Cab for Cutie @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 26 Jan
Ben Gibbard is a ball of energy tonight as Death Cab for Cutie plumb the depths of their back catalogue, playing plenty of tracks from their latest album for good measure Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
Live MusicGigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 29 Jan-4 Feb
Shows from Swearin', Bossy Love, Steve Mason and John Grant; plus Celtic Connections winds up for another year and Independent Venue Week fully kicks off across the country Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsNina Nesbitt – The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change
Not the collection of hits we were anticipating, with The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change Nina Nesbitt comes of age Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
NewsEdinburgh to host SAY Award for the first time
The SAY Award will be making its debut in the capital at The Assembly Rooms in September Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
Live MusicCAKE @ QMU, Glasgow, 23 Jan
Ending a seven-year silence, California's CAKE play a cathartic set at QMU as part of this year's Celtic Connections festival Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsGraham Costello’s STRATA – OBELISK
Filled with texture, OBELISK is an hour-long journey that demonstrates all of the most gripping aspects of a rising ensemble Read more »| 29 Jan 2019
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ReviewsAndrew Wasylyk – The Paralian
The Paralian is an antidote to everyday chaos, an album that’s somehow both meditative and majestic, quieting the mind as it leads it through multiple journeys of space, time and place Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsBring Me the Horizon – Amo
After ditching the metalcore almost completely on 2015’s critically acclaimed That’s the Spirit, Sheffield’s genre-smashing trailblazers take it a step further on their most ambitious project to date Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsSister John – Sister John
Sister John's eponymous sophomore record sees the Glasgow four-piece pushing doors with a new confidence Read more »| 29 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsSwervedriver – Future Ruins
Bold and ambitious, Swervedriver's sixth studio album Future Ruins is deliriously difficult to place, and all the more exciting for it Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
ReviewsBlood Red Shoes – Get Tragic
Get Tragic is a powerful album, raw in its unflinching honesty, experimental in its lyrical and instrumental balances, and deeply moving Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
InterviewsJohn Grant on Love is Magic and art in music
Following the release of his fourth solo album, Love is Magic, we talk art and music with John Grant Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
InterviewsAndrew Wasylyk on The Paralian
We talk to Andrew Wasylyk about his ambitious third solo-record The Paralian and his launch shows in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow Read more »| 25 Jan 2019 -
Live MusicThe Streets @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 21 Jan
The once-familiar voice of adolescent Britain doesn't disappoint with a high-energy rollercoaster of hits at Glasgow's O2 Academy Read more »| 24 Jan 2019 -
Playlists
Behind Bossy Love's Favourite 00s Jams
After releasing their debut EP, Whiplash, Bossy Love's John Baillie Jnr tells us all about the Glasgow duo's favourite era of pop music and all the sampling goodness that came with it Read more »| 24 Jan 2019