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First Listen: PAWS reveal debut album Cokefloat!
The three members of PAWS are looking queasy. Phillip Taylor, Josh Swinney and Matt Scott are sitting in a leatherette booth in Edinburgh’s City Caf&ea... Read more »| Updated almost 13 years ago -
Music
The Twilight Sad, United Fruit, Hector Bizerk among Scottish bands set for SXSW
The seven bands set to fly the flag for Scottish music in Creative Scotland’s showcase at this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival have been... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
Katie Buchan on her new Best Girl Athlete album
In her short time releasing music, Katie Buchan – aka Best Girl Athlete – has toured America, supported the likes of Richard Hawley, been pushed ... Read more »| Updated almost 8 years ago -
Art
Soft Chaos, Hot Air and Labours of Love: This Week in Scottish Art
We start this week in Dundee, where as part of the Men Gather, in Speech... exhibition at the Cooper Gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone art college, the s... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
2009: A Year in Records (#2-10)
2. GRIZZLY BEAR - VECKATIMEST Through no fault of their own, sometimes great bands acquire unhealthy legacies: Nirvana, I'm looking at you particularly. One ... Read more »| Updated over 15 years ago -
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Neon Waltz on their debut album Strange Hymns
A late Saturday morning in a quiet Glasgow pub on the edge of Kelvingrove Park. A group of friends in cord jackets and denims, with sunglasses at the ready, ... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
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Pretty Good Year: Stina Tweeddale on Honeyblood's SAY nomination
Musicians are seldom known for their modesty or for praising bands other than their own. But Stina Tweeddale is as happy to talk about the other groups short... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Music
The Skinny's Albums of 2016: Mid-year report
Anna Meredith – Varmints (Moshi Moshi) When the vistas of pop and contemporary classical overlap the interaction tends to be on the former’s t... Read more »| Updated about 9 years ago -
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A Year in Records #1: Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
This time last year Frightened Rabbit were playing in city centre bars around Scotland and not selling them out. Tonight, every ticket has gone, and we're in... Read more »| Updated over 16 years ago -
Music
Cult Classics: Start to End interview
If there’s a silver lining to be had in David Bowie’s death, it’s the birth of Start To End. At a tribute night organised at Glasgow’... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Music
Gig & Music Festival Highlights – August 2015
As The Great Pseudo-Summer of 2015 continues, take solace in the fact that rain, hail or (unlikely) shine, August’s gig offerings kindly accommodate al... Read more »| Updated about 10 years ago -
Music
"This record's a statement: not to prove people wrong, but to prove people right” – The Twilight Sad reveal album four
A little under a decade ago, Scotland’s guitar rock saviours were cusping transcendence. After signing with Fat Cat at their third ever gig, the then f... Read more »| Updated almost 11 years ago -
Things To Do
Top Ten Events 15 Dec-5 Jan: Christmas & New Year Special – Bumper Edition!
The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 15 Dec-Jan 5: Christmas & New Year Special – Bumper Edition! ... Read more »| Updated over 13 years ago -
Music
Beats Top 10 Albums of 2006
1. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYoYo (Big Dada) (5 Skinnys)In a year of significant triumphs for Big Dada and its parent label Ninja Tunes, there was never really an... Read more »| Updated over 18 years ago -
Music
Frightened Rabbit & Song, By Toad's Albums of 2016
As the year draws to a close, a look at the best music of 2016 according to two of the leading lights of the Scottish music scene – Frightened Rabbit g... Read more »| Updated over 8 years ago -
Music
The Albums of 2013 (#8): Boards of Canada – Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)
For an elusive duo who once proclaimed ‘music is math,’ the cryptic, numerical-led announcement of Boards of Canada’s fourth album was sure... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Music
The Albums of 2012 (#2): Django Django – Django Django (Because Music)
For a nation perceived as being scabrous, angry and dour, Scotland has provided more than its fair share of upbeat, psychedelic, wonk-pop bands over the year... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Music
The Albums of 2012 (#9): The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know (FatCat)
“It's been a strange year,” confesses The Twilight Sad’s de facto spokesman James Graham, ‘still jetlagged oot his nut’ from a ... Read more »| Updated over 12 years ago -
Whats On
The Twilight Sad
The howling gale-force guitars and morose lyrics of The Twilight Sad place the band in a dark place, outside, on a cold Scottish winter’s eve. Now a fa... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Whats On
Adam Stafford
Falkirk-based musician and filmmaker Adam Stafford has been a consistent presence on the Scottish music scene of the early millennium, and is frequently cite... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Music
Premiere: A Mote of Dust – Home (Mogwai remix)
A Mote of Dust sees Craig B take a stripped-back, acoustic approach; taking its title from a quote by cosmologist Carl Sagan, the nine-track album focus... Read more »| Updated almost 10 years ago -
Music
The SAY Award: 2023 Longlist announced
The Scottish Album of the Year Award returns for its 12th year, with 20 albums once again in the running for the coveted title and £20,000 cash prize. ... Read more »| Updated almost 2 years ago -
Music
SAY Award 2016 longlist revealed
The twenty-strong longlist for this year's Scottish Album of the Year Award (SAY Award) has been unveiled. An industry wide panel of nominators, from the ma... Read more »| Updated over 9 years ago -
Students
Scotland's New Music
Suspend from your mind a moment the pipes-and-pies clichés that come to mind when considering Scottish culture, and open your eyes to the glorious reb... Read more »| Updated almost 15 years ago -
Videos
Music Video Premiere: Stanley Odd – 'Chase Yirsel'
The rise and rise of Stanley Odd is a testament to the strength and diversity of the Scottish independent music scene – initially signed to Circul... Read more »| Updated over 11 years ago -
Music
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat confirm second LP 'The Most Important Place In The World'
Bill Wells and Aidan Moffat have announced the release date and tracklist for their long-awaited second album, entitled The Most Important Place In The World... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
Scottish indie rockers Glasvegas round off a successful year with their own bleak and distinctive take on that most pointless of concepts, the Christmas mini... Read more »| Updated over 16 years ago -
Music
SAY Awards 2017: Public vote opens
The 20-strong longlist for this year's Scottish Album of the Year Award will be whittled down to a final ten later this week, but the listening public will h... Read more »| Updated about 8 years ago -
Videos
Music Video Premiere: Call To Mind – Untitled
Glasgow rockers Call To Mind premiere their new video 'Untitled', a collaboration with filmmaker Nick Patton. Untitled is taken from Call To Mind's debut alb... Read more »| Updated over 10 years ago -
Music
Under the Influence: Mogwai
1) De Rosa. This Scottish Chemikal Underground band were one of the reasons we wanted to record with Andy Miller again after his brilliant work on their de... Read more »| Updated almost 17 years ago