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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ReviewsCHVRCHES – Love Is Dead
Love Is Dead shows the Glasgow indie electro three-piece super-sizing their synth-pop, adding a surprising aggression to boot. Don’t be surprised if Love Is Dead seals their superstardom Read more »| 21 May 2018 -
Live MusicThe Spook School @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 10 May
The Spook School are a hell of a lot of fun tonight, delivering a great show as well as an excellent ode to veggie sausages Read more »| 21 May 2018 -
Live Music
Car Seat Headrest @ O2 ABC, Glasgow, 18 May
With Will Toledo able to focus more on singing and dancing, tonight's Car Seat Headrest show is undeniably fun Read more »| 21 May 2018 -
Interviews
Louis Abbott on Vox Liminis' Distant Voices project
We speak to Admiral Fallow's Louis Abbott about new collaborative project Distant Voices which looks at creativity in music to help overcome issues that surround the criminal justice system in Scotland Read more »| 21 May 2018 -
Interviews
CHVRCHES on new album Love Is Dead
Ahead of a busy summer schedule, we speak with Lauren Mayberry and Martin Doherty, two thirds of Glasgow synth pop trio CHVRCHES, about latest album Love Is Dead, recording in America and Girls Rock Glasgow Read more »| 21 May 2018 -
Opinion
Scott Hutchison: A Tribute
As we come to grips with the loss of Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison, a few pals of ours and Scott's share some happy memories, tributes and messages of comfort Read more »| 18 May 2018
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Live Music
All Points East 2018: Festival Preview
Ahead of the inaugural All Points East festival, we take a look at ten acts you'd be out of your mind to miss, from LCD Soundsystem and Björk to Hookworms and Young Fathers Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
ReviewsQuiet Slang – Everything Matters But No One Is Listening
If you're a huge fan of Beach Slang already, you'll likely find more than enough to love about these candlelit versions of some of the band's most popular songs Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Reviews
TT – LoveLaws
On her first solo album under the TT name, Warpaint's Theresa Wayman reveals the slippery, shimmering quality of her songwriting Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Reviews
Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers
Welcome Strangers feels like Modern Studies at their most ambitious, as abstract as it is accessible and as complex as it is beautifully simple Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
ReviewsRemember Sports – Slow Buzz
After a name change and the addition of a new drummer, Remember Sports (fka SPORTS) fully arrive with lo-fi fuzz full of heartache Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Reviews
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Sparkle Hard
Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus returns with an album overflowing with hooks, and a hint of grace and gravitas Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
New Music
The Motion Poets – A Girl Like This (Video Premiere)
Edinburgh indie-grunge quartet The Motion Poets share their latest video, for new track A Girl Like This Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Reviews
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
There is rather a lot to be angry about right now, but with Wide Awake! Parquet Courts remind us to dance and have a good time, despite the impending apocalypse Read more »| 18 May 2018 -
Reviews
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
There's no sign of a sophomore slump on Tell Me How You Really Feel, an album that doesn't better Courtney Barnett's stellar debut, but certainly does no harm to her burgeoning oeuvre Read more »| 18 May 2018