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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ReviewsGorillaz – Humanz
If this is the sound of good music in this tentative spring of 2017, then there is hope yet for the arts. And where there is hope for the arts, there is hope... Read more »| 05 May 2017 -
InterviewsWomen in Music: Scotland’s Shifting Music Scene
The record deal is dead, success is still sexist and downloads don't pay: Sharleen Spiteri, Emma Pollock, Law Holt and Be Charlotte speak with The Skinny about what makes it all worth it Read more »| 05 May 2017 -
New Music
FRAUEN – Unreal City (Video Premiere)
Watch the new video for Unreal City by Glasgow three-piece FRAUEN Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
Live MusicScottish Gigs of the Week: 4-9 May
Local aces Babe, Lush Purr and Withered Hand, and visits from Wheatus, Maximo Park and Kishi Bashi feature in this week's Scottish gig guide Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
New Music
Gallops – Darkjewel (Live): Video Premiere
Watch the live video for Darkjewel by Wrexham trio Gallops Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
ReviewsTexas – Jump on Board
After nearly thirty years in the biz, Texas' ninth album Jump on Board finds the Glaswegian pop titans in a reflexive mood. Love, loss, regret and forgivenes... Read more »| 04 May 2017
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Live Music
Stag & Dagger, Glasgow, 30 Apr
Since its inception as one of many festivals in London's trendy East End in 2008, Stag & Dagger emerged in the next year as Glasgow's premier music expo ... Read more »| 04 May 2017 -
New Music
Jamie & Shoony – Young Minds (Video Premiere)
Watch the new music video for Young Minds by Jamie & Shoony Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Interviews
Yellow Is the New Black: Colonel Mustard & the Dijon 5 interview
We chat to The Colonel about dance-offs in South Korea, the Yellow Movement and Crossing the Road – i.e. the usual Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 stuff... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
New Music
Fat Goth – Carpe Diem (Track Premiere)
Listen to Carpe Diem from Dundee noise-makers Fat Goth's new album Enorme! Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Reviews
Tica Douglas – Our Lady Star of the Sea, Help and Protect Us
The second record from Tica Douglas collects moments and feelings from partway through a journey that might have no end. Over terse acoustic guitar strumming... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Reviews
Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel – I Can Spin a Rainbow
Light a candle in a dark room and wrap up snug; this is a haunted house of a record. Dark corners, echoey corridors, lyrics half sung, half spoken. If this i... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
News
Haçienda Classical to open Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage
Legendary Haçienda DJs team up with Manchester Camerata to take the Friday morning slot on Glastonbury's iconic Pyramid Stage Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Reviews
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Best Troubador
If the Americana boom of the mid-to-late 2000s can be traced back to anything, it's arguably the death of Johnny Cash in 2003. There was something about the ... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Reviews
Afghan Whigs – In Spades
Afghan Whigs' latest offering In Spades is just the kind of music you’d expect Greg Dulli and the boys to be producing in 2017, proving the o... Read more »| 03 May 2017