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With festival season fully back in June, it was hard to keep up with new releases. Towards the end of the month Glasgow funk and hip-hop collective DOPESICKF... Read more »

As is custom, here's some of what we missed last month. There were new albums from Supermann on da Beat and Xidontile, Sister John, Starsky-Rae and Swim... Read more »

When we spoke to Johnny Lynch during the height of the pandemic he told us he’d been listening to a lot of early !!! records and had in turn been worki... Read more »

January was a busy month. On day one, P3, the collaborative record from producer Supermann on da beat and rapper xidontile arrived, with debut albums later i... Read more »

Starting in the capital, the Edinburgh International Festival is bringing some of the biggest names in music to Leith Theatre this month; our top picks inclu... Read more »

I can’t believe I’m writing this, but it’s 2021 (insert celebratory emoji here)! We only bloody well made it through 2020 – phew! &nd... Read more »

While the middle of April saw Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite announce his literary debut, Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai and Misspent Youth, towards the ... Read more »

#20 Belle & Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance [2015, Matador] #19 The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and N... Read more »

It’s set to be a big month for music lovers all across the UK as the first of two Record Store Day drops lands on 12 June. Drop one includes a smatteri... Read more »

At the end of last year we missed EPs from PAQUE (Truth Be Told), KATERINA. (Songs I Wrote When I Was 18), and BPK (In Ascent), the solo ambient electro... Read more »

For a country with such a vibrant music scene, Scottish musicians are responsible for surprisingly few great musical moments in cinema. There are Mark Knopfl... Read more »

First up, Savage Mansion’s third album Golden Mountain, Here I Come arrives this month via Lost Map (25 Feb). “It could be our first record as a ... Read more »

Assai RecordsGrindlay Street, Edinburgh, 8am-8pmKing Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, 8am-8pm  At the start of the month Assai Records’ Edinb... Read more »

Rustie – Glass Swords[Warp, 2011]Rustie's debut album came out the year I started Uni so it definitely soundtracked a very particular time in my life, ... Read more »

Gigs in Edinburgh this week DB Hews, Olivia Lucia, Khalid Al Khajah @ Sneaky Pete's, 28 Mar A trio of up-and-coming talents come together tonight ... Read more »

July is often one of the quieter times of the year for releases as it’s usually jam-packed with a busy festival calendar, artists more focused on playi... Read more »

As we wrote this month’s round-up, Glasgow’s Mogwai were in the running to score a number one album in the UK charts with their tenth record ... Read more »

We covered a heck of a lot in the September column, but still there was more to come, like Isik Kural’s sublime and delicate Moon In Gemini, or Ey... Read more »

October was surprisingly sunny, yet still gave us some terrible weather. It felt like it went on forever, and it seemed to fly right by. Scottish artists hav... Read more »

March brought a run of releases that we didn't find out about in time for last month’s round-up: the chic New Hair New Me by Eyes of Others is worth ta... Read more »

Okay okay, so when we sent the December issue to print, not much had been announced yet in the way of Scottish releases, so this column didn't exist last mon... Read more »

2018's visual art schedule for Scotland is already looking jam-packed – and these are just the events that have already been announced. We've not even ... Read more »

Spring is here, hope dangling before us like a slightly past-its-best carrot on the end of a very long stick. Vaccinations are being rolled out, restrictions... Read more »

In amongst the rammy of June, we missed singles from Town Centre (Red Flags), Health & Beauty (Footprint), Oyakhire (Tied Up), corto.alto (Don’t Li... Read more »

Let’s go over what we missed in the May column. There were new albums from Blue Rose Code, TRAAPS, and Xan Tyler as well as a mixtape from Crush Mouse,... Read more »

It’s hard to think of a venue that exemplifies the purpose of Independent Venue Week more than Sneaky Pete’s. For years it’s been a staple ... Read more »

The Skinny is proud to present to you its albums of the decade. The 2020s were some stretch. Who’d have thought a nationwide lockdown imposed by the ou... Read more »

The festival with the best acronym returns this October with a full enough programme to satisfy even the hungriest LGBTQ+ filmgoer. Scottish Queer Inter... Read more »

While much of the music industry struggled under the limitations of lockdown, with a halt to live performances and studio production, Scotland's DIY music sc... Read more »

This year’s album of the year was a clear stand-out from the start. On Heavy Heavy, Edinburgh’s Young Fathers have captivated us once more, with ... Read more »