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Having emerged as an avant-garde synth group in the late seventies, and morphing into the chart-straddling, eighties pop behemoths we know today, The Human L... Read more »

Having bubbled under the surface since their 2010 debut album Innerspeaker, Australian psychedelic rockers Tame Impala look ready to boil over with their sec... Read more »

Celebrating the best in what might overall be termed Americana, the No Mean City festival rolls into Glasgow again this month. On one end of the spectrum, ... Read more »

For their third album proper, post-electro trio Errors pulled off a trick par excellence by releasing their most accomplished, focused and downright enjoyabl... Read more »

Last summer, Fielding Hope of Glasgow-based DIY promoters Cry Parrot found himself discussing horror film music with instrumentalist Umberto, over from Kansa... Read more »

Jimmy Cliff  O2 Academy, Sat 19 May Doors 7pm followed by reggae DJs until 2am, £22.50 + BF. Remember when pop music was a force for good? Yes,... Read more »

In an age where musicians can barely stub a toe without it hitting the blogosphere, the sucker punch release of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s first alb... Read more »

“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 »

The ten albums on the shortlist of the Scottish Music Industry Association's inaugural Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) award were announced today. Honed dow... Read more »

It's the second day of groundbreaking French music festival Trans Musicales de Rennes, and the contingent of journalists from the UK, including The Skinny's ... Read more »

1. Stone Roses (Main Stage headliner, Saturday) For many music fans, T In The Park 2012 is all about the Stone Roses. The second coming of the legendary Manc... Read more »

“I was a caterwauling child that loved music and was tolerated; and found by sheer persistence I developed a voice. Probably by imitating other beautif... Read more »

Icarus’ ninth album presents something of a conundrum for reviewers. Fake Fish Distribution reconfigures the notion of limited edition physical release... Read more »

Festive albums, eh? All tinsel'n'schmaltz. False sentiment and trite nonsense, so the cynics say. Luckily, The Skinny's on hand to provide a playlist for you... Read more »

DARYL PALUMBO STARTS ANOTHER BAND AT A HIP HOP SHOW. So with a heck of a lot of excitement (and a wee spot of confusion) I headed out on Thursday night to c... Read more »

So that was our albums of the year and, while we doff our collective cap to those up top, the joy of such lists is always about making new discoveries, even ... Read more »

#50: Daughter – Not to DisappearIf Daughter's debut had you label the London trio as de rigueur indie alt-folk, think again: Not&nb... Read more »

Carrie & Lowell was announced in the opening weeks of 2015 with the simple caveat that the album would see a “return to Sufjan Steven’s ... Read more »

• Steve Mason – Meet the Humans (Double Six) Steve Mason's third solo album under his own name finds the erstwhile Fifer embracing a fo... Read more »

Handling your own personal catharsis is one thing, seeing it written and spoken back to you writ large is quite another. Forget the ‘psych’ tag t... Read more »

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 »

Offering a retrospective on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly is a terrifying prospect. For lyrical analysis, Genius has us beat. In terms of cultur... Read more »

‘Expectation,’ is a word that crops up a lot in Benjamin Power’s syntax these days. One half of Fuck Buttons, alongside his close friend An... Read more »

Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno has kept himself busy with the release of the excellent Palms earlier last year, but he's also been making dramatic, electroni... Read more »

Since signing to LuckyMe in 2012, prodigal New York producer Baauer has enjoyed criticial acclaim, notably for his Dum Dum and ß EPs, but also for vari... Read more »

The indie pop classicists earn their stripes on their debut for Fortuna POP!, a match made in the minor chord, lovelorn heaven exemplified by both parties. I... Read more »

To borrow a song title from Factory Floor's self-titled debut album, there are two different ways you can approach being in a live band. You can refine your ... Read more »

People were only just about getting to grips with Ital’s matrix-weaving series of EPs when he dropped his debut full-length for Planet Mu in 2012, a ma... Read more »

This mysterious Swedish collective certainly got chins-a-wagging in 2012, thanks to the sheer scope of their all-action psych-rock. This second LP picks up w... Read more »

When METZ kicked down the doors of a complacent post-hardcore scene in 2012, they were touted in some quarters as another 'new Nirvana' – mainly a... Read more »