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You may recognise members of this Glasgow-based outfit from former bands such as The Yawns, Mirror Parties and Copy Haho. Drawn from places near and far to G... Read more »

The music industry is a very fickle business. Ten years ago (yes it was that long), young band The Bluetones stormed onto the scene with a number one debut a... Read more »

CROWDFUND THE MO' WAX ARCHIVE PROJECTOne of the quintissential labels of the 90s, which helped to define the emergent sound of 'trip-hop' by releasing the ea... Read more »

Formed in Glasgow by core members Paul McGuire and Allan "McDibet" MacDonald in 2006, grindcore outfit Cerebral Bore have worked tirelessly to forge a name f... Read more »

2006 and 2007 saw dubstep reach omnipresence. Infecting other genres like a virus, and with a colossal international fanbase, its current renown verges on as... Read more »

Any title that dedicates a lot of time and effort to music can only be as good as the groups and solo artists that it writes about. We've been lucky to have ... Read more »

If you’re looking for summertime soul, there are few safer hands than Lalah Hathaway, daughter of Chicago legend Donny. Having scooped a Grammy this ye... Read more »

TURNER PRIZE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEDThe shortlist for the Turner Prize was announced last week, with recognition for celebrated Glasgow-based artist David Shrigl... Read more »

Since Young Fathers won the Mercury Music Prize in 2014, it feels like every other music critic in the western hemisphere is suddenly an expert on Scottish h... Read more »

It's pretty sickening: my band Divorce and London's Comanechi are in the middle of a musical love-in. The romance started by sharing stages in London and Sco... Read more »

French Wives formed nearly four years ago, when founding duo Stuart Dougan (vocals, guitars) and Scott MacPherson (guitars, vocals) met online. “It&rsq... Read more »

In the news...Glaswegian hip hop producer OJ LOOPZ has just completed a song featuring rap veteran and underground legend Sean Price. Price's critically accl... Read more »

Anna Meredith If you don't know what to see on Thursday night or early Friday afternoon, you can't go far wrong with Glasgow composer and electro-acoustic a... Read more »

Car Seat HeadrestCar Seat Headrest's 2016 album, Teens of Denial, made our albums of the year list back in December, coming in at number 12. A... Read more »

Ranked within these pages as one of the great Scottish albums of the last decade, Aereogramme’s Sleep and Release initially provoked genre-bending slog... Read more »

Ben Johnston of Biffy Clyro discusses the making of the band's new album Ellipsis, and the eclectic influences that fed into the record It may be an ugly wo... Read more »

Arab Strap, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton's seminal indie pop project, have announced a second Glasgow show as part of their 20th anniversary reunion. ... Read more »

1994 – The Delgados set up Chemikal Underground and release their first single, Monica Webster, in June 1995. 1996 – Bis play Top of the Pops, t... Read more »

"I was hearing all of this amazing music that wasn’t being played anywhere else, and it struck a chord straight away. It was mainly old stuff from the ... Read more »

Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of events from the Scottish cultural calendar to provide you with this guide to the most exciting goings on i... Read more »

Each year, Scotland's biggest music festival, T in the Park, endeavours to present the best-of-the-best from Scotland's emerging bands and musicians, showcas... Read more »

Welcome back to Ten Rapid, where we showcase a selection of the week's best new music videos, as curated by The Skinny's music team. This week's playlis... Read more »

R.I.P. IAIN BANKSIain Banks, one of Scotland's best loved authors, passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer. The author of 29 novels, including the a... Read more »

Broken Records have had a tumultuous journey over the past three years. Lauded as Scotland’s answer to Arcade Fire by critics who seemed to be fixated ... Read more »

Sitting with the four core members of Penpushers (MCs Lifeboy and Obsolete, and DJs / producers The Brain and Dr Hands Zharkov), in the luxury confines of Ed... Read more »

Canadian post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor and US hip-hop duo Run the Jewels have been added to the line-up for All Tomorrow's Parties Iceland 2015 ne... Read more »

May we present to you a smattering of the bands that The Skinny reckons could be making waves in 2008, locally, nationally and - fuggit - internationally.Wit... Read more »

The wonderfully named Tickle & Asthmatic Astronaut provide strong support tonight. The latter is a founder of the Black Lantern Music collective that has... Read more »

So far this summer Barclay Crenshaw, aka Claude VonStroke, has been one very busy man. In the space of two months, he has released an exquisite compilation f... Read more »

Summerhall have announced details of their theatre and music programmes for the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The multi-arts venue's sixth Edinburgh Fring... Read more »