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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Top Events Scotland 8-15 May: Tectonics, Psychedelic Forest Disco + Future Shorts Music 1. Tectonics F... 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 28 Jun-5 Jul: Kelburn Garden Party, Leith Late + Jesus H. Foxx     &nbs... 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 »

"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 »

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 »

OUTSKIRTS (20 Apr, Platform, The Bridge, Westerhouse Road, Glasgow)Glasgow-based Outskirts' comparative modesty of size seems inversely proportionate to... Read more »

January is traditionally a bit of a featureless wasteland in the club scene, with punters too broke to go out, and promoters unwilling to gamble money on a b... Read more »

Alex Neilson’s musical calibre is not something to be questioned, as the list of his collaborators will no doubt pay testament to. Jandek, Current 93, ... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 26 Apr-3 May: Outskirts Festival, Matthew Dear + Cry Parrot Turn 5!     ... Read more »