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Gigs where the support and headliner clash are special. It adds danger. Veteran rapper billy woods and Glasgow punk group Doss have near-opposite energies. D... Read more »

"Me and Jenny both used to have fringes, and llamas kinda have those wee fringes?" Jill O'Sullivan cackles. "Llamas – they seem social yet dignified, c... Read more »

'Don’t expect me to come home in the evening / You know that I’m trying to face the night’ Nandi Rose Plunkett ruminates halfway through he... Read more »

Barcelona festival Primavera Sound is renowned for its strong line-ups, and on Wednesday evening they announced the bill for next year with three words: &ldq... Read more »

Electric Fields finds itself at a pivotal point of growth five years in. The small festival in Dumfries and Galloway has appealed to three core groups so far... Read more »

Less than two years after I'm Bad Now, their last collection of comfy indie rock anthems, Nap Eyes are back to ponder life’s big questions. Where do we... Read more »

Where do you go after pushing the volume to its limit? Benjamin John Power’s music as Blanck Mass has been there for years of extreme and often incredi... Read more »

On 2018’s Power, Lotic used throbbing club sounds, celestial operatic elements and raw electronics to convey the instability and personal upheaval happ... Read more »

Before Denzel Curry walks out, the chants of 'here we fucking go' have already begun. His largely young fanbase have been hyped up by support sets from PlayT... Read more »

For Adrianne Lenker and her band Big Thief, songs are living things. Their live performances are full of twists on recorded material, made fresh by interplay... Read more »

DARKSIDE has never been a fixed entity. Electronic producer Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Dave Harrington saw the project as the meeting point of their disparat... Read more »

10) Confidence Man – Confident Music for Confident People "Melbourne-based Confidence Man are a band who know exactly what they want; with a fucking e... Read more »

#10: Róisín Murphy – Róisín Machine [2 Oct, Skint Records]After a legendary career flirting with the outskirts of pop and ... Read more »

Before we get into our top ten, it's important to show some love for the albums that didn't quite make the cut. At number 20 is Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans... Read more »

As always, the end of year brings with it a plethora of end of year lists to celebrate the year that's just passed. We polled our music team to find out what... Read more »

We polled our music writers at The Skinny to find out what albums they were obsessed with in 2021, ending up with over 200 to pore over. Fortunately, there w... Read more »

Electric Fields squeeze a lot of good music into two days and a handful of stages; as you drive over the stone bridge at Drumlanrig Castle, it’s easy t... Read more »

Research says that dogs and owners begin to look alike. So do bands and their gig-goers. HMLTD have garnered a reputation for their ragged live shows, either... Read more »

Childhood and Sorry make for excellent touring partners, and not just because they both have great names you can’t believe weren’t already taken.... Read more »

Ambient and neo-classical have blossomed as genres over the past few years, as artists explore the boundaries between each. From the earthy explorations of N... Read more »

In Broadcast’s cosy basement, we’re all close enough to hear Luke Abbott clacking away on his keyboard before Szun Waves begin. It’s surpri... Read more »

The thrill of following most bands is in watching them grow with the years. Evolution is key to keeping fans interested, as well as to just being a sane huma... Read more »

Liars have been in a state of flux their whole career. Dance-punk, experimental rock, spooky ambience and hard-nosed techno make up some of their many mutati... Read more »

Chad VanGaalen’s music is often cloaked in ugliness that makes it all the more beautiful and honest. The melodies themselves are sweet – instantl... Read more »

In folk circles, Adam Torres was a mythical figure until he resurfaced with new music last year. His whirlwind 2005 debut, Nostra Nova, has become one of the... Read more »

Stewart Bronaugh and Joshua Jaeger, the artists behind Lionlimb, are exceptionally skilled musicians. That should go without saying given this is an album re... Read more »

You can hear Sparks in Morrisey’s camp yelp. You can feel them in Björk’s juvenile humour and poignant poetry. They’re all over of Mon... Read more »

The new Soft Fangs album opens with a hollow acoustic guitar, playing a despondent riff in isolation. It sounds as if it could have been recorded from the ot... Read more »

Partway through their lively basement set, Charly Bliss are wide-eyed and stunned. Vocalist and guitarist Eva Hendricks pants, clutching her hair in one hand... Read more »

There’s a party happening under Edinburgh Castle, at the Paradiso, a pop-up carnival stage nestled into Princes Street Gardens. The tent will be the li... Read more »