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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FestivalsHidden Door announces 2025 programme
Bikini Body, No Windows, Mermaid Chunky and Snapped Ankles are among the acts heading to Hidden Door 2025, which will take place in an old paper factory in west Edinburgh Read more »| 25 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsSPELLLING – Portrait of My Heart
On her ardent fourth album, SPELLLING's Chrystia Cabral channels and exudes a wild assortment of sonic influences, resulting in her most honest and entrancing record to date Read more »| 24 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsSacred Paws – Jump Into Life
Filled with effervescent joy, despite its lyrics of heartbreak and healing, Sacred Paws' latest album Jump Into Life is pure catharsis Read more »| 24 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsPerfume Genius – Glory
On Glory, his seventh studio album as Perfume Genius, Mike Hadreas pulls off another career-best Read more »| 24 Mar 2025 -
InterviewsSpotlight On... Idiogram
Ahead of releasing their debut album this weekend, we catch up with East Lothian post-prog outfit Idiogram Read more »| 20 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsGreentea Peng – Tell Dem It’s Sunny
South East London's Greentea Peng bleeds vulnerability across her second studio album Read more »| 19 Mar 2025
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Live MusicClairo @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 16 Mar
An atmosphere of joy and excitement permeates a chilly Sunday evening, as Clairo and her band deliver a captivating performance in Glasgow Read more »| 18 Mar 2025 -
InterviewsSeabass Vinyl: Inside Scotland's only vinyl pressing plant
We head down to Seabass Vinyl, Scotland's only vinyl pressing plant, to get a behind-the-scenes look at how it's meant to be done – just in time for Record Store Day Read more »| 18 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsLucy Liyou (루시 리유) – Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name
Lucy Liyou’s latest album forges something beautiful from an almost queasy vulnerability Read more »| 18 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsBenefits – Constant Noise
On their latest album, Constant Noise, Benefits shift between EDM, techno, rave and bleak, apocalyptic sonic wastelands Read more »| 17 Mar 2025 -
ReviewsJapanese Breakfast – For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
Michelle Zauner's follow up to Japanese Breakfast's breakthrough record Jubilee, For Melancholy Brunettes finds beauty in softer, darker sounds Read more »| 17 Mar 2025 -
Live MusicSharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory @ Barrowlands, Glasgow, 12 Mar
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory finish their UK tour at one of Glasgow’s oldest, most honoured music venues. The often dark, always dreamy liaise between act and audience could not make a more intimate match Read more »| 14 Mar 2025 -
InterviewsThe Weather Station @ Saint Luke's, Glasgow, 10 Mar
Tonight’s performance from The Weather Station is an urgent, babbling brook which carries the audience through themes of human connection, purging negativity and the current global state of affairs Read more »| 14 Mar 2025 -
InterviewsSpotlight On... Majesty Palm
With their debut EP Learning to Swim released last week, we catch up with Glasgow pop pair Majesty Palm to find out more Read more »| 13 Mar 2025 -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Festival reveals 2025 programme
This year’s Edinburgh International Festival includes Brian Cox in a play about Scotland’s role in the 2008 financial crash, a new version of Orpheus and Eurydice blending opera and circus, and The Big Singalong at Princes Street Gardens' Ross Bandstand Read more »| 13 Mar 2025