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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 »

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 »

To celebrate the end of the final year of the decade Optimo are once again hosting their annual Hogmanay party at the beloved Fruitmarket venue. This year&rs... Read more »

Beginning life as a modest bedroom endeavour, Woodenbox has since spawned into a vibrant, proficient musical collective. "I did the first album as a little t... Read more »

Fresh from the success of First Edition, the Fruit Tree Foundation's first album, we are "sprouting a new branch" to our organisation and looking for singer-... Read more »

Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Grace Jones, Slayer, Van Morrison and The xx will also top the bill in Barcelona While other festivals drip-feed their li... Read more »

When hosts Vic Galloway and Janice Forsyth take to the stage to officially open the fourth Scottish Album of the Year Award ceremony, few in the audience can... Read more »

It seems the old adage 'One good turn deserves another' is about to come true for the volunteers of ProjectScotland. As a reward for their hard work througho... Read more »

NEW ATOMS FOR PEACE TRACKAtoms For Peace, the new 'supergroup' founded by Radiohead's Thom Yorke, veteran producer Nigel Godrich, Flea from Red Hot Chili Pep... Read more »

When The Skinny first spoke to Frightened Rabbit's Grant Hutchison last year his band were still lurking behind a seemingly intentional cloak of enigma. No s... Read more »

On this week's Cloud Sounds, a weekly playlist of new music curated by The Skinny, we feature some of the best new emerging music from Scotlan... Read more »

Kenny Anderson expects to be feeling a bit light-headed by the end of the day SkinnyFest catches up with him. Although the sun is blazing down outside, his p... Read more »

We See Lights Who are We See Lights? "We See Lights are from lots of places," they say, including Airth, Bo'ness, Edinburgh and Milngavie, and have been ab... Read more »

Derrick Johnston runs DIY institution Make-That-A-Take – he puts out records, puts on shows, and once a year he throws Dundee a whole damn music f... Read more »

The return of the SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) sets the tone for a particularly cinematic Zap this week. We're truly buzzing ... Read more »

Lewis Cook has a level-headedness that belies his youth. When most teenagers fly the family nest for the boundless freedom of university life, their first ye... Read more »

Ask many folk in Scotland about music festivals in their homeland and the first response you’re likely to receive (aside from inevitable mutterings abo... Read more »

Hitting the ten year mark and still sounding innovative and forward thinking is no small achievement in the electro pop world. Whilst many of their contempor... Read more »

SUNN O))) MAKE ENTIRE CATALOGUE AVAILABLE ONLINEIn a move which surely dwarfs that time The Beatles finally wised up and released their music to buy on the i... Read more »

The idea that former Y'All Is Fantasy Island front-man Adam Stafford considered giving up music after the release of his 2011 album Build A Harbour Immediate... Read more »

September – bit of a weird month. 'Sept' meaning 'seven' in Latin, the reason the month is ninth up to bat in the yearly running order is all down... Read more »

FESTIVAL WATCH: PRIMAL SCREAM TO HEADLINE WICKERMAN 2013; OFF FEST, FIELD DAY, DOWNLOAD AND HORIZON HEADLINERS ANNOUNCEDIntroducing Festival Watch -- as line... Read more »

Soma's whippersnapper of a sibling, Slam, will be eight years old this November, and they've snagged a host of underground house and technoids to celebrate. ... Read more »

Self-confessed “depressing, moany bastard” James Graham isn’t half as depressed as his lyrics might make him out to be. Over the course of ... Read more »

Those festivals, eh? Coming over here, taking up our streets, plying us with all the things we love the most. Brilliant things like jokes, drama, glitter, bo... Read more »

They’ve got the daftest Beatles-cum-Star Wars punning name since, well, ever as far as we’re aware and they’re coming to blow an Alderaan-s... Read more »

There’s an audible relief in the sweaty basement when the Texan trio’s guitarist tells everyone how to correctly pronounce the band’s name.... Read more »

In medieval times it was widely held that your state of mind was inseparably tied to your state of body. Hence all the talk of apothecaries in Shakespeare an... Read more »

It’s been almost twenty years since Kendrick Jeru 'the Damaja' Davis unleashed his seminal debut The Sun Rises in the East (co-helmed by... Read more »

Franz Ferdinand have taken their stylish brand of angular art-rock all over the world on tour, sold millions of records, and were responsible for the definit... Read more »