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“Sorry I’m late,” gushes Liza Marie as she arrives for the interview. She’s been travelling all day and rushing to keep time, but she... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP           THE WEEK AHEAD It's a good week that start... Read more »

GLASGOW.MUSIC.NOW. The name says it all really. For the first time in history, the MOBO awards are moving to Glasgow and it's a pretty big deal. To celebrate... Read more »

Coachella Festival (Indio, California), 13-15 April It’s hard to sum up what makes Coachella such an amazing festival. There’s no single ele... Read more »

Ryan AdamsAn inarguable Mountain Stage headliner, the key with Adams, as ever, is to expect the unexpected. His stage-vaulting, limb-fracturing days may be b... 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 »

After the hedonistic madness of Hogmanay, we raise our bleary-eyed fizzogs and look towards the dawn of a new year, safe in the knowledge that the Mayans wer... Read more »

Last month we sort of lost our shit over Angel Olsen's new album My Woman so it's only fair we continue the jubilation in anticipation of... Read more »

Not only are temperatures predicted to soar into certain taps aff territory this week (at the time of writing, at least), the Central Belt is also ... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival is off to a wicked start after launching yesterday with a movie our film section declared their "best opening film... Read more »

All around the world, trans and non-binary artists are using digital media to transform their practice and make a difference, and now The National Theatre of... Read more »

Konx-Om-Pax roughly translates to ‘light from a single beam’, a fitting moniker for multifaceted artist Tom Scholefield. Based in Germany but hai... Read more »

The Solus Tent looks like a familiar festival platform on paper – get new bands in, stick them on a stage – but the thinking behind it ... Read more »

Don’t let the title of Perfume Genius’s second LP confuse you – Put Your Back N 2 It is no fragrant tribute to Ice Cube. Rather, it’s... Read more »

Signed to Sub Pop, lauded by broadsheets – THEESatisfaction are 2012’s leftfield rap-crossover of choice, and for good reason. Stasia Irons and C... Read more »

Sharam Jey, Afterdark presents Kink, Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 19 MayWhen you think of Germany in clubbing terms, images of industrial techno and freaked out m... Read more »

By now, given the interminable flow of electronic music from the city of Berlin, you could be forgiven for not always believing the hype on encountering anot... Read more »

The drum & bass scene in Scotland takes no prisoners, and over the years it has witnessed its fare share of ups and downs, casualties and successes. Thankful... Read more »

Who are Broken Records? The short answer: a much-hyped seven piece indie-folk outfit based in Edinburgh. Helpfully, Ian is on hand to provide the background... Read more »

Merrill Garbus blindsided us all with the sheer inventive strength of w h o k i l l in 2011; tUnE-yArDs' second album was a considerable step up from her lo-... Read more »

Sun 10 AugEmpire Café Jura Unbound opens with a celebration of Glasgow's Empire Café project created by Louise Welsh and Jude Barber to explor... Read more »

Returning to Platform for its seventh year, Glasgow’s Eastern Promise festival is branching out by adding theatre performances from some of Scotland's ... Read more »

The Ashton Weekender is like a Spotifyied version of a music festivals where the initial cost is extremely low (or in this case, free) and you are served up ... Read more »

So what happens when you survive ‘second album syndrome’? Where do you go next – stadium tours, mid-table obscurity or fade into oblivion w... Read more »

RIP JEFF HANNEMANJeff Hanneman, a founding member of Californian thrash titans Slayer, has passed away due to liver failure. It is not yet known whether his ... Read more »

You may recall that last year the Fruit Tree Foundation brought together a stellar array of Scottish songwriting and recording talent to make an album and se... Read more »

“A few people listened to the record and said, 'it’s quite dark' – well, what the fuck were you expecting?” It’s fair to ... Read more »

It’s one of the world’s top festivals, and this year’s Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations place Biffy Clyro right at the epicentre. Not that t... Read more »

There's one thing we'll say for the quieter summer months – with the usual suspects off the road and in the fields, you've the opportunity to take a pu... Read more »

Forget April, November is the cruellest month. The encroaching consumerist spend-fest that is Xmas approaches (we refuse to call it Christmas, not this ... Read more »