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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InterviewsSounding Massive: Shredd on their new EP Eat Your Enemy
Glasgow garage-rock trio Shredd chat unlikely influences, how a sparsity of vocals allow for instrumental freedom and how their new EP is exactly how they want it to be heard Read more »| 07 Aug 2018 -
InterviewsRiot Gaze: Pussy Riot on Patriotism and Propaganda
What does it take to prepare to protest? Pussy Riot brief The Skinny on their punk spectacle Riot Days and *that* World Cup final performance Read more »| 06 Aug 2018 -
InterviewsKeeping Afloat: Sarah Beth Tomberlin on her debut album At Weddings
We speak to Sarah Beth Tomberlin about moving around a lot in her childhood, friendships and her debut album, At Weddings Read more »| 03 Aug 2018 -
Interviews
Good Grief and City of Glass on Edinburgh's live music scene
We chat to Edinburgh promoters City of Glass and Good Grief to learn more about what they’re doing to open up the capital's creative community and what grassroots music means to them Read more »| 03 Aug 2018 -
Reviews
Gabe Gurnsey – Physical
Gabe Gurnsey has taken a temporary departure from the stripped-back no wave electronica of Factory Floor in favour of some good old dancefloor stingers Read more »| 03 Aug 2018 -
Reviews
Shredd – Eat Your Enemy EP
The Glasgow trio’s latest EP Eat Your Enemy is a gallant and galvanic garage-punk goliath Read more »| 03 Aug 2018
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Interviews
Since Yesterday: A Greatest Hits of Non-Hits
Blair Young and Carla J. Easton tell us about Since Yesterday, their documentary film and live gig celebration of Scottish women in music. History’s never sounded so good Read more »| 03 Aug 2018 -
ReviewsJames – Living in Extraordinary Times
James are back with a nineties feel on their 15th album Living in Extraordinary Times, but there's something different happening here Read more »| 03 Aug 2018 -
Reviews
Helena Hauff – Qualm
With Qualm, Helena Hauff returns to Ninja Tune channeling the spirit of The Hague’s electro scene and the bleak essence of post-Brexit industrial Britain Read more »| 03 Aug 2018 -
Reviews
Amanda Shires – To the Sunset
With a hint of Nanci Griffith and Conor Oberst, Amanda Shires is on fine form sounding nothing short of Presidential on To the Sunset Read more »| 03 Aug 2018 -
Festivals
La Route du Rock 2018: Festival Preview
France’s Fort de Saint-Père plays host to a stellar selection of established and emerging artists this August at the La Route du Rock Festival Read more »| 02 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
Queen Kwong @ Night & Day, Manchester, 31 Jul
Queen Kwong’s entrancing frontwoman Carré Callaway throws mind, body and soul into a voracious performance tonight at Night & Day Read more »| 02 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 30 Jul
These rebels without a cause flit confidently between solo acoustic, country rock and noise pop tonight in a set that sadly lags in the middle Read more »| 02 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
Earthless @ Classic Grand, Glasgow, 30 Jul
Krautrock connoisseurs Earthless command a ceaseless psychedelic voyage through the cosmos Read more »| 02 Aug 2018 -
News
SAY Award 2018: Longlist revealed
Young Fathers, Siobhan Wilson, Franz Ferdinand, Mogwai, Blue Rose Code and Kobi Onyame are just some of the bands and artists whose records are in contention to be named Scottish Album of the Year 2018 Read more »| 01 Aug 2018