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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ReviewsThey Might Be Giants – I Like Fun
They Might Be Giants' 20th album delivers exactly what you'd expect from the alt rock outfit. Fans will lap it up, everyone else might be mildly irritated Read more »| 17 Jan 2018 -
ReviewsTune-Yards – I can feel you creep into my private life
Tune-Yards tackle important current issues on their most upbeat record yet, I can feel you creep into my private life Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
New MusicOther Creatures – The First EP (EP Premiere)
Listen to the debut EP from Dublin-based three-piece, Other Creatures. Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
Reviews
The Xcerts – Hold on to Your Heart
Hold On To Your Heart doesn't disappoint with its rose-tinted mix of heartbreaker rock and new-wave emo Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
Reviews
The Go! Team – Semicircle
Ian Parton brings his chaotic musical mind to life once again with a frenetic fifth LP Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
Live MusicScottish Music Highlights: 16-22 Jan
Celtic Connections returns, King Tut's New Year's Revolution comes to a close, and Paramore and The Cribs come to town in this week's gig highlights Read more »| 16 Jan 2018
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New Music
Fauves – Head Spins (Track Premiere)
Listen to Head Spins, the new track from Glasgow art-pop band Fauves Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
Reviews
Porches – The House
The House is an album of rare balance and beauty, managing to evoke hefty emotions and ideas, while still feeling slight and ephemeral Read more »| 16 Jan 2018 -
Interviews
The Spook School on touring, safer spaces and their new album
As The Spook School ready themselves for the release of new album Could it be Different?, we chat self-care, safer spaces and the sudden closure of Fortuna Pop! Read more »| 15 Jan 2018 -
InterviewsTeenage Fanclub's Francis Macdonald on his new classical suite
We chat to Teenage Fanclub drummer, and classical composer, Francis Macdonald about his latest offering, Hamilton Mausoleum Suite Read more »| 15 Jan 2018 -
Interviews
Django Django on new album Marble Skies
We catch up with Django Django at the end of 2017 to talk about their busy work schedule and their latest record, Marble Skies Read more »| 15 Jan 2018 -
Live Music
Eurosonic Noorderslag 2018: Preview
From much-hyped acts like Sigrid and Pale Waves to German techno marching bands and Icelandic hip-hop, we preview Eurosonic 2018 and take a closer look at the Danish acts at this year's festival in Groningen Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Film
Listen to Jonny Greenwood’s stunning Phantom Thread score
The Radiohead multi-instrumentalist's fourth collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson is now available online, and it's stunning Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Interviews
The Go! Team on optimism, playing live, and Semicircle
Ahead of the release of their fifth studio album, Semicircle, producer and The Go! Team leader Ian Parton explains how the band's sense of utopia is needed more now than ever before Read more »| 12 Jan 2018 -
Interviews
Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on I can feel you creep into my private life
Merrill Garbus tells us about exploring her relationship with whiteness on Tune-Yards' ominously-titled fourth album, I can feel you creep into my private life, and officially re-branding as a duo Read more »| 10 Jan 2018