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It’s not everyday that music lovers get to experience their favourite bands live in intimate spaces, even less so with stunning art that is conceptuali... Read more »

Glasgow plays host to a young, queer icon tonight as Australian idol Troye Sivan takes over the O2 Academy for one unforgettable, enchanting evening. It... Read more »

Jerrilynn Patton, more commonly known as Jlin, cuts an impressive, prolific figure – a gifted and sought-after composer, musician, producer and DJ... Read more »

Even keen followers of Wayne McGregor, the prolific Resident Choreographer of the Royal Ballet, may be stunned into silence by his latest work, Autobiography... Read more »

L-space, signed to non-profit label Last Night From Glasgow, are a band that deserve to be as big as their future utopian dreams. The Scottish noise dream-po... Read more »

For the uninitiated, Camila Cabello is a Latinx pop songstress who found success on American X Factor, recruited into Simon Cowell’s Fifth Harmony in w... Read more »

Last year, The Skinny caught Chuchoter supporting Kllo at Sneaky Pete's and were instantly hooked on their sprawling synths and emotive vocals. The Edinburgh... Read more »

Hailing from the fringes of the north-west indie/alt-rock scene, Jane Weaver is a prolific, resilient artist – if not a central figure, an important ou... Read more »

Following a slew of shows in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens and Glasgow's Bellahouston Park, tonight's show from The 1975 marks the end of 2019... Read more »

HANG (Hip-hop Aimed Networking with Grime) is Scotland’s first ever grime and hip-hop music conference launching this summer with a one day, can’... Read more »

It's the golden age of sitting in the house, streaming multiple TV shows at once or watching a brand-new film in the bath. But for every mega-hit like Game o... Read more »

30. Blue Valentine (2010) Dir. Derek Cianfrance Back in 2010, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams finally shook off any lingering connections with their tee... Read more »

25. Paddington 2 Dir. Paul King Once again Paul King marries Michael Bond’s genteel charms with his own hugely imaginative visual style to create a... Read more »

Fresh off the back of recent successes with Los Campesinos and Mystery Jets, Sailor Jerry Presents... hauls its travelling tattoo and rum themed show into Gl... Read more »

It's beyond a poor turnout tonight at Edinburgh's Electric Circus, as a drunken (at best 'sociable') rabble sing songs over those of up and coming avant-rock... Read more »

Director Destin Cretton based Short Term 12 on his own experiences working in a foster care facility for at-risk teenagers, and it shows. His drama docu... Read more »

In his impressive debut Of Horses and Men, director Benedikt Erlingsson deftly weaves a darkly comic portrait of the equine world within stunning, rural... Read more »

Opening with a film within a film’s ending, director and million dollar talent John L. Sullivan (John McCrea) is looking to abandon the mainstream cine... Read more »

Hollywood’s cannibalistic cycle of consumption and regurgitation continues unabated, as yet another super Asian horror is chewed up, sucked of its crea... Read more »

The UK’s leading social change film festival, Take One Action!, returns this month to assorted cultural institutions across Glasgow and Edinburgh to in... Read more »

My Skinny Sister My Skinny Sister (★★★) is the first film from Swedish writer-director Sanna Lenken, whose own experience with eating disorders also informe... Read more »

In research for this review of Takashi Miike's Yakuza Apocalypse (★★) we read time and time again that this film is only for hardcore fans of Japanese c... Read more »

There's something lurking in the depths in Lucile Hadžihalilović's Évolution. We sat down with this deeply original French filmmaker to shine a light ... Read more »

Mark Cousins is arguably one of the best film essayists of our time, and the kind of thoughtful, gentle and poetic auteur that a city as traumatised and as b... Read more »

Opening with the 2011 London riots, sparked by the police killing of unarmed young black man Mark Duggan, Urban Hymn follows two POC teenagers, Jamie (Letiti... Read more »

The White King stars up-and-coming young actor Lorenzo Allchurch, who plays 12-year-old Djata, a happy boy unaware of the dangers of the isolationist dictato... Read more »

The Skinny catches up with rising star of Scottish Ballet, the talented choreographer Sophie Laplane as she prepares to premiere her specially commissioned o... Read more »

Misfits and Mortal Instruments actor Robert Sheehan talks to The Skinny about starring and producing suspenseful indie thriller Jet Trash It would be a sham... Read more »

The Other Side of Hope begins with Khaled (Sherwan Haji), his face and body completely camouflaged in sparkling soot, emerging like a divine, alien entity in... Read more »

For those unfamiliar with the JD Set formula, it presses shuffle on the standard gig routine – mixing up members of veteran acts alongside those of up-... Read more »