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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ReviewsNap Eyes – I'm Bad Now
For their third album Nova Scotia slack-rockers Nap Eyes sharpen up their act and create moments of brilliance Read more »| 06 Mar 2018 -
InterviewsSHHE on her return to music and Icelandic residency
“Solitude and isolation have always featured in my music. Intentionally or unintentionally, they’ve always featured in my life too" Su Shaw Read more »| 06 Mar 2018 -
Interviews
Martha Ffion on Sunday Best
We talk Seinfeld, Peep Show and growing up in Ireland with Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Martha Ffion ahead of the release of her debut album Sunday Best Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
ReviewsGumba Fire: Bubblegum Soul & Synth-Boogie in 1980s South Africa
Soundway Records' latest compilation is a fantastic introduction to the party-starting bubblegum sound from South Africa Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Reviews
Martha Ffion – Sunday Best
Sunday Best is a confident debut chock-full of understated pleasures, one that hints Martha Ffion will only get better as her career progresses Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
ReviewsYoung Fathers – Cocoa Sugar
Cocoa Sugar is a potent mix of sugary boy band choruses, tongue-twister rap and surreal imagery making for the Leith trio's best album yet Read more »| 05 Mar 2018
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InterviewsYoung Fathers on Cocoa Sugar and Edinburgh's live music scene
We pay Young Fathers a visit in their Leith studio space to talk about new album Cocoa Sugar, via pop dreams, improv poetry, huge horses and the future for Edinburgh's live scene Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Art
Call and Response: Kobi Onyame vs the artist
An experimental music-art collaboration takes place this month in Many Studios in Glasgow, pairing artists with tracks from Kobi Onyame's acclaimed new album GOLD Read more »| 05 Mar 2018 -
Live Music
JD McPherson @ Gorilla, Manchester, 27 Feb
Averting our minds from the snow and cold outside, JD McPherson brings a warm air of Tulsa rock'n'roll to Gorilla's intimate stage tonight Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Opinion
Songs: Ohia – The Magnolia Electric Co. 15 years on
Fifteen years after it was released and five years after the death of Jason Molina, The Magnolia Electric Co. stands as a shining reminder of the talent we lost too soon Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Festivals
Hidden Door Festival: 2018 programme revealed
The festival returns to the Leith Theatre for a ten-day programme of music, dance, film, spoken word and more Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Interviews
Gwenno on Le Kov and the Cornish language
Sung entirely in Cornish, Gwenno Saunders’ new album is a warm world of collective memories and a document of a language that’s well and truly alive Read more »| 02 Mar 2018 -
Interviews
Reality Bytes: Inside Superorganism's World
Superorganism tell us about the process of making their cross-continental debut album, nearly suffering an existential crisis and building the Superorganism world Read more »| 01 Mar 2018 -
Reviews
Bearcubs – Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet is a superb headtrip, with every snare and synth laboured over but if you spend enough time submerged in it, the edges sadly start to blur Read more »| 01 Mar 2018 -
Reviews
Buffalo Tom – Quiet and Peace
Quiet and Peace isn't a bad record, it's just one of those albums that makes you realise that the world moves on Read more »| 28 Feb 2018