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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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 -
ReviewsStephen 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
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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 -
Live Music
Damo Suzuki @ Mash House, Edinburgh, 8 May
Tonight is sometimes brilliant, sometimes gibberish as Can's Damo Suzuki performs a set made up solely of compositions improvised entirely on the spot Read more »| 17 May 2018 -
News
Create a Glasgow music mash-up with Mix the City
Online music platform Mix the City lets you build your own music track using clips from great musicians, and Glasgow is getting its version as part of Festival 2018 Read more »| 16 May 2018 -
Live Music
Gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 16-21 May
From Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert to Japanese Breakfast, Car Seat Headrest and a Glasgow all-dayer hosted by Savage Mansion, we take a look at the best shows this week across Scotland Read more »| 16 May 2018 -
Live MusicWe Are Scientists @ The Garage, Glasgow, 10 May
Tonight at The Garage feels like more of a We Are Scientists greatest hits set than a Megaplex promotional tour Read more »| 16 May 2018 -
Live Music
Start to End @ Museum of the Moon, Glasgow, 12 May
Start to End tackle Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on the Museum of the Moon's opening weekend and deliver a more than fitting tribute to Scott Hutchison Read more »| 15 May 2018 -
Interviews
Modern Studies on soaring new album Welcome Strangers
We speak to Modern Studies' Emily Scott and Rob St. John about their latest album, Welcome Strangers Read more »| 15 May 2018 -
Interviews
Tracyanne Campbell on Camera Obscura and working with Crybaby
We speak to Tracyanne Campbell about the tragic circumstances surrounding Camera Obscura's hiatus, leading to new creative ambitions in Tracyanne & Danny with Crybaby's Danny Coughlan Read more »| 15 May 2018