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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NewsScottish Album of the Year Award shortlist revealed
Albums from Karine Polwart, Young Fathers, Kobi Onyame, Mogwai, Golden Teacher, BABE and Siobhan Wilson are among those in the running for this year’s SAY Award Read more »| 23 Aug 2018 -
ReviewsWhite Denim – Performance
White Denim go in hard for glam on their seventh album, but their penchant for psych is never too far from reach and Performance shimmers from end-to-end Read more »| 23 Aug 2018 -
ReviewsMidori Takada & Lafawndah – Le Renard Bleu
Le Renard Bleu is as eerily evocative and wonderfully playful as Midori Takada's classic work, elevated here by beautifully controlled vocals from Lafawndah Read more »| 23 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
Flow Festival 2018: Review
While musically not unlike other European festivals, Flow Festival wins on account of its all-around immersive experience. It's an easy festival to love Read more »| 23 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
Lau-Land @ Leith Theatre, Edinburgh, 18 Aug
Lau-Land is a huge success – marvellously eclectic, refreshingly ambitious and frequently moving Read more »| 23 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
Kevin Morby @ Gorilla, Manchester, 20 Aug
With a little help from Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield, Kevin Morby, the man reinventing the indie folk wheel, makes up for lost time tonight in Manchester Read more »| 22 Aug 2018
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ReviewsBrian Campeau – Old Dog, New Tricks
Old Dog, New Tricks is a happy pop album by a songwriter who doesn't always find happiness easy – and is all the braver and more laudable for it Read more »| 22 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
Wye Oak @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 21 Aug
Despite disruption from a fire alarm tonight, Wye Oak deliver a smooth and cohesive set which culminates in a haunting beautiful ending Read more »| 22 Aug 2018 -
ReviewsHer's – Invitation to Her's
With Invitation to Her's, Her's have delivered a debut that suggests they’ll be continuing to craft impossibly catchy off-kilter pop for years to come Read more »| 22 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
Stories and Songs with Beans on Toast @ Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 19 Aug
What you see with Beans on Toast is exactly what you get: his set is simple yet hearty, promoting a more wholesome and optimistic worldview, one folk song at a time Read more »| 22 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
Teenage Fanclub @ Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, 17 Aug
The indie rock stalwarts signal the beginning of the end of an era with a masterful career-spanning set in the Calder Valley Read more »| 22 Aug 2018 -
Reviews
Mogwai – KIN: OST
KIN provides Mogwai's first opportunity to lend their talents to a major Hollywood production, and given the run of form they're on just now it's come at the perfect time Read more »| 22 Aug 2018 -
Reviews
NOTHING – Dance On the Blacktop
On Dance On the Blacktop, NOTHING burrow into the filth and double down on the harsher elements of their sound, with mixed results Read more »| 21 Aug 2018 -
Reviews
Interpol – Marauder
What Marauder provides is a top-up of Interpol for the band’s most dedicated fans, but nothing that approaches their former glory Read more »| 21 Aug 2018 -
Live Music
John Grant @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 20 Aug
John Grant has the Edinburgh Playhouse eating out of his hand tonight as he veers between earnest, piano-led balladeering and club-tinged, bombastic electro-pop Read more »| 21 Aug 2018