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We dive into the listings to bring you this essential guide to gigs in Manchester this week plus the latest news on festivals, tour announcements and more. T... Read more »

While the English accepted the creation of the devolved Scottish parliament with equanimity, the recent championing of the MacDonald Brothers as musical amba... Read more »

EXCLUSIVE! LISTEN TO A NEW TRACK FROM RICK REDBEARD'S DEBUT ALBUM Rick Redbeard is the solo moniker of The Phantom Band's Rick Anthony. Eight years ago, he b... Read more »

Critical acclaim and commercial success rarely go hand in hand. But, as a shall we say, ‘discerning’ music fan, you’ll already know this. W... Read more »

In case you haven't heard of them – and if that's true, you're Scottish and consider yourself a fan of quality rock music, shame on you – this Du... Read more »

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH MICHAEL GIRA AND SWANSPitchfork TV today unveiled a 27-minute behind-the-scenes documentary on the band Swans, focusing on frontman Mi... Read more »

Denis Sulta's Sulta Sheik Down // Refreshers FLY @ Cabaret Voltaire, Fri 20 Jan Heads up, people – this one is going to be BIG. In case you missed the... Read more »

“One of the things that attracted us to techno is that it’s a genre that doesn’t want to be liked,” begins Orde Meikle, one half of p... Read more »

The festival's opening concert sees Laura Marling team up with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for a special gig at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall on 19 Ja... Read more »

The Skinny News Badger (melis nuntius) eschews his species' customary winter hibernation period, emerging from his cosy set once more to seek out delectable ... Read more »

THE CLASH UNVEIL 5-ALBUM BOX SETThe Clash are in many ways the quintissential punk band - raw, politicised, and with a dedicated army of followers who worshi... Read more »

In music, Scottish Album of the Year award winner Kathryn Joseph teams up with The Twilight Sad frontman James Graham to perform newly-written material, alon... Read more »

If the average length of an album is half an hour, the 20 LPs which make up the 2016 SAY Award longlist comprise some 600 minutes of recorded music. That's a... Read more »

Coming off last year’s Scottish Album of the Year-nominated album Caramel, Glasgow producer and animator Konx-Om-Pax is content to simply ride the wave... Read more »

As we all know, Christmas is the traditional period where we remember the smell of millionaire vigilante Bruce Wayne, and commemorate the holy moment when hi... Read more »

SAY Award-nominated Glasgow duo Happy Meals and Bournemouth electronic producer East India Youth are amongst the final announcements for Electric Fields... Read more »

Funk, R 'n' B and pop legend Prince this week announced his first Scottish show in nearly two decades – the singer, backed by his new band 3RDEYEG... Read more »

James Yorkston is becoming something of a fixture in the Jura Unbound programme. Fife’s finest takes up residence for the Edinburgh launch of his new a... Read more »

BECK VS. SPOTIFY: "IT'S NOT WORKING..."Beck has added his voice to the chorus of independent musicians hitting out at streaming service Spotify. In an interv... Read more »

The Scottish Album of the Year longlist will be unveiled at a gig at the ABC in Glasgow next month Admiral Fallow, Mungo's Hi-Fi and an acoustic set from fo... Read more »

HAVE YOUR S.A.Y! SCOTTISH ALBUM OF THE YEAR: PUBLIC VOTE ON MONDAYOn Monday 27 May, public voting opens for 24 hours so that you can make your voice heard in... Read more »

NEW MUSIC FROM ALICE IN CHAINS, DAMIEN JURADO, SOLE & WHITE HEATHVeteran Seattle metallers Alice In Chains follow up their respectable 2009 stu... Read more »

Taking place between 13 and 16 Feb, this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival has been celebrating the diversity and creativity of filmmakers working in t... Read more »

The first weekend after the New Year in Glasgow is a gamble for any promoter; the clubbing majority will either be skint, recovering or more likely, both. Wh... Read more »

Playing an intoxicating fusion of blues, folk, rock and roll and traditional Celtic music, Black Diamond Express have been building a reputation as one of th... Read more »

Another bank holiday? We know, pal! What a time to be alive. Best make the most of not having work on Monday morning by filling your last Sunday of April wit... Read more »

2007 promises to be a big year for Scottish music. With Idlewild releasing a new long player this month, Biffy Clyro with one in the pipeline, Alamos teaming... Read more »

In anticipation of their first full band gigs in almost a year, we bring you a double whammy Christmas treat courtesy of The Twilight Sad with this exclusive... Read more »

It’s still over three months away, but the first details of Edinburgh’s world famous Hogmanay party have been revealed this morning. The heart o... Read more »

In October’s Skinny, Scottish publishers Canongate unveiled a list of the 40 storytellers they thought would define Scotland over the next four decades... Read more »