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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ReviewsArt Feynman – Blast Off Through the Wicker
Californian musician Art Feynman is on a mission. He wants to try to find life in the lifeless, and discover what it actually means to be alive. That goes so... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
ReviewsSiobhan Wilson – There Are No Saints
Elgin-born singer-songwriter Siobhan Wilson has been around a while under the guise Ella the Bird, but it’s under her own name she’s going to be ... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
Reviews
Japanese Breakfast – Soft Sounds From Another Planet
The vivid melancholy of Michelle Zauner’s debut album Psychopomp was built on tragic circumstances: imbued by the memory of Zauner’s late mother,... Read more »| 10 Jul 2017 -
Reviews
Lucy Rose – Something’s Changing
Ah, the travails of being a female singer-songwriter in an age of superabundance. It may be John Lewis we have to thank but you can’t turn on the TV th... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Live MusicAni DiFranco @ Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 29 Jun
Folk singer and feminist icon, Ani DiFranco has been described by many as a badass. With a musical career spanning over 30 years she has released more than 2... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Food And Drink
Auchentoshan, Glasgow & King Tut's Summer Nights
Ahead of this year's King Tut's Summer Nights gig series, we look at Glasgow, live music, and the city's very own whisky, Auchentoshan Read more »| 07 Jul 2017
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New Music
Rachel Alice Johnson – I Won't Remember You (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video from Edinburgh-based musician Rachel Alice Johnson Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Reviews
Sheer Mag – Need to Feel Your Love
Sheer Mag’s relatively rapid rise to prominence has been one of punk music’s most refreshing and organic in some time. Despite possessing a relat... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Live Music
The Sugarhill Gang @ Stramash, Edinburgh, 28 Jun
Just a few decades prior to the rise of stars such as Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar, young DJs and MCs in the South Bronx of New York City were laying the gr... Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
PlaylistsThe Veils: Guest Selector
As they prepare for their European tour, which takes in Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow this September, The Veils' frontman Finn Andrews shares some of his favourite tracks Read more »| 07 Jul 2017 -
Reviews
Waxahatchee – Out in the Storm
Album number four from Katie Crutchfield, continuing the upward curve she’s been on since the first Waxahatchee release in 2010. Breezier in tone than ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2017 -
Live Music
Spoon @ The Art School, Glasgow, 28 Jun
Tonight's opener, Adam Buxton, is not a typical support act for a rock band (as he states several times), but he does hit the right note with a crowd that ar... Read more »| 06 Jul 2017 -
Live Music
Jeff Lynne's ELO @ SSE Hydro, Glasgow, 28 Jun
As far as 1970s rock groups go, Jeff Lynne must be one of the era's most unassuming frontmen. Founder of the Electric Light Orchestra and the man behind the ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2017 -
Reviews
Mura Masa – Mura Masa
Not all pop is manufactured, or made by men in suits with dollar signs in their eyes – sometimes an artist knows what makes a track wriggle into your b... Read more »| 06 Jul 2017 -
Clubs
JD Twitch & JG Wilkes on 20 Years of Optimo
We speak to the duo behind Glasgow's Optimo (Espacio) ahead of Optimo 20 this August, celebrating two decades of the legendary club night Read more »| 06 Jul 2017