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What with all the posters, scaffolding and that unique combo of anticipation and premature exasperation, Fringe-mas eve is a complicated seaso... Read more »

What were you doing five years ago? Revising for the next round of exams, breaking up with the last girlfriend but one, recovering from the mother of all han... Read more »

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

And then the rain came. What began as a deceptively dry weekend turned to soup overnight, and the hoards retreated for cover. Fortuitously, The Skinny ha... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 2-9 Aug: Edinburgh Festivals | Independent Record Fair | + more!     &nb... Read more »

TuskI'd just bought a new harmony guitar pedal the same day I started writing this, which gives everything this sparkly quality. I've been getting int... Read more »

Taking place over the weekend of 30 Sep/1 Oct, the Eastern Promise two-day festival returns to Glasgow's Platform this year. Arty electronic two-piece Tarwat... Read more »

It seems 2016 will be remembered as the year T in the Park finally made itself at home in Strathallan. The teething problems of last year's event feel ... Read more »

Belle and Sebastian, by their own once prolific standards, have had what you could reasonably term a fallow decade. This is a band who put out their first tw... Read more »

Chicago experimental rockers Owls are on tour throughout the UK in September, playing Glasgow's Audio on 16 September, Manchestser's The Deaf Institute on 17... Read more »

Sun 16 AugustTrading StoriesJura Unbound 2015 takes flight with a night of seductive international short stories. Join us on our journey with Denmark’s... Read more »

1. BOOKS | Neu! Reekie!: #UntitledOne, The Launch La Belle Angele, Edinburgh. Fri 1 May, 6pm, £5... Read more »

The thing I love most about festival season as a whole is the welcome it gives to fresh faces as much as seasoned ones. Edinburgh International Book Festival... Read more »

“Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man” So said Lord Summerisle in the original 1973 film and I, like many others made th... Read more »

4 May, 1999, and DIY icons and post-hardcore figureheads Fugazi have reached the northernmost date of a pretty exhaustive UK/Ireland tour promoting what woul... Read more »

First up, we're taking a step back from the Fringe to noise you up about something equally important at the other end of the M8 this weekend: Glasg... Read more »

SCOTT WALKER BOX-SET ANNOUNCEDDetails have emerged of plans to release legendary songwriter Scott Walker's first five albums as a deluxe vinyl and CD box-set... Read more »

SLINT TO REFORM?Music blogs and the post-rock Twitterati are all abuzz today with the rumour that seminal, nay godlike math-rock noiseniks Slint are to refor... Read more »

Top Events Scotland 8-15 May: Tectonics, Psychedelic Forest Disco + Future Shorts Music 1. Tectonics F... Read more »

Never to be confused with the French metal progenitors (nor the teenaged Belgian Eurovision contenders) of the same name, Toronto duo Trust have enjoyed a st... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 28 Jun-5 Jul: Kelburn Garden Party, Leith Late + Jesus H. Foxx     &nbs... Read more »

An ominous text message arrives half an hour before The Skinny’s appointment with Rick Anthony: “Ate too many chips… feel a bit sick.&rdqu... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 1-8 Mar: Withered Hand, Lambchop + Geek Film Night!       ... Read more »

  Top Ten Events 18 Oct | Bat For Lashes | Efterklang | David Shrigley         ... Read more »

For Young Fathers, looking backwards doesn’t come easy. The group’s approach to writing and recording is brutally fast: take a week in the studio... Read more »

Happy fifteenth birthday, Green Man! While the Brecons Beacons-set event has one or two rivals for the title of Britain’s coolest festival, surely none... Read more »

Having proven their worth on the live scene over the last four years, instrumental rock trio Lady North announce Stellar, their debut full length LP due for ... Read more »

Each week The Skinny team hand pick a selection of the best events from the Northwest cultural calendar to provide you with this here top ten guide to the mo... Read more »

Music as escapism isn’t a particularly uncommon occurrence; it’s a much rarer event, however, to be transported not only out of your own world bu... Read more »

"It's a music industry event with a difference," enthuses festival director Olaf Furniss. "I've worked for a lot of different music conferences and showcase ... Read more »