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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FestivalsEdinburgh Book Festival to celebrate Scott Hutchison
Neu! Reekie! co-founder Michael Pedersen will pay tribute to the late, great Scott Hutchison at Edinburgh International Book Festival’s event for Oyster, Pedersen’s poetry collection which Hutchison illustrated Read more »| 14 Jun 2018 -
NewsSong, by Toad announce tenth birthday gigs
The Edinburgh DIY label celebrate this milestone with a birthday party at Solas Festival and a series of anniversary gigs across the country Read more »| 13 Jun 2018 -
News
Numbers reveal their EIF Light on the Shore line-up
The Glasgow label reveal who'll be playing their Edinburgh International Festival night at Leith Theatre Read more »| 13 Jun 2018 -
Live Music
Gigs in Glasgow and Edinburgh: 13-18 Jun
It's another busy gig week across Glasgow and Edinburgh bringing us Future Islands, The Wave Pictures, The Big Moon, Dr Hook and Bill Murray. Yes, that one Read more »| 13 Jun 2018 -
FestivalsFun in the Sun: The Skinny at Kelburn Garden Party
As the 2018 Kelburn Garden Party fast approaches, we take a closer look and chat to some of the artists playing The Skinny's Pyramid Stage line-up Read more »| 12 Jun 2018 -
Interviews
Chromeo's Dave 1 introduces Head Over Heels
Ahead of fifth album Head Over Heels, Chromeo's David Macklovitch – aka Dave 1 – talks collaboration and curation on the band's love letter to funk Read more »| 12 Jun 2018
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Rip It Up
Pop Thrills: A Love Letter to Scottish Pop
Ahead of the National Museum of Scotland's Rip It Up exhibition we speak to journalists, radio hosts and documentary makers about the moments in Scottish music that matter to them Read more »| 11 Jun 2018 -
InterviewsGetting To Know Baboon from Wuh Oh
Ahead of their upcoming headline show at The Blue Arrow as part of the Glasgow Jazz Festival, we meet the newest member of Wuh Oh – Baboon Read more »| 11 Jun 2018 -
Reviews
Here Lies Man – You Will Know Nothing
Here Lies Man’s novel collision of afrobeat and psych-rock lacks necessary nourishment on their sophomore outing You Will Know Nothing Read more »| 11 Jun 2018 -
Live Music
Supersonic 2018: Preview & Mix
Ahead of the 2018 edition of Birmingham's Supersonic festival, we take a closer look at the line-up with a handy mix to help fully whet your appetite Read more »| 11 Jun 2018 -
ReviewsMelody's Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage
French musician Melody Prochet's second album as Melody's Echo Chamber, Bon Voyage is wildly inconsistent Read more »| 11 Jun 2018 -
Reviews
Chromeo – Head Over Heels
Head Over Heels is a multi-layered trail through funk's iterations loaded with squealing synth leads, big basslines, and more sass and energy than you can shake a stick at Read more »| 11 Jun 2018 -
Reviews
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
Hope Downs is as good a reminder as any that life’s a blast. Head to the beach, you’ve found the soundtrack from Melbourne's Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Read more »| 11 Jun 2018 -
Reviews
Michael Rault – It’s a New Day Tonight
Michael Rault’s dream-weaving folk-rock fuses his friendly grasp of the genre’s past and present stylings seamlessly on It’s a New Day Tonight Read more »| 11 Jun 2018 -
Live Music
Camila Cabello @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 5 Jun
Tonight at the O2 Academy, Camila Cabello is an unapologetic example of what pop can be at its finest Read more »| 11 Jun 2018