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Scottish New Music Round-up: May 2022
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 »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
Film
Scottish musicians on their soundtracking sidehustles
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 »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Scottish New Music Round-Up: June 2021
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 »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
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Scottish New Music Round-up: January 2025
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 »| Updated 4 months ago -
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Record Store Day 2018: Scottish Events Guide
Assai RecordsGrindlay Street, Edinburgh, 8am-8pmKing Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, 8am-8pm At the start of the month Assai Records’ Edinb... Read more »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Scottish New Music Round-up: February 2022
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 »| Updated about 3 years ago -
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Scottish Albums of the 2010s: Industry Picks
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 »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Scottish New Music Round-Up: July 2021
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 »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
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Scottish new music round-up: March 2021
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 »| Updated about 4 years ago -
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Scottish Music Highlights: 27 Mar - 2 Apr
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 »| Updated about 7 years ago -
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Scottish New Music Round-up: October 2024
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 »| Updated 7 months ago -
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Scottish New Music Round-up: April 2023
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 »| Updated about 2 years ago -
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Scottish New Music Round-up: November 2023
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 »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Scottish new music round-up: April 2021
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 »| Updated about 4 years ago -
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Scottish New Music Round-up: January 2024
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 »| Updated over 1 year ago -
Art
The Skinny's 2018 Scottish Art Events Diary
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 »| Updated over 7 years ago -
Music
Scottish New Music Round-up: June 2024
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 »| Updated 11 months ago -
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Scottish Fiction Showcase @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh, 30 Jan
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 »| Updated about 6 years ago -
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Sounds of the Summer: Scottish Music Round-up
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 »| Updated over 4 years ago -
Festivals
Queer Aye: Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2019
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 »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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Meet The Women Levelling Scottish Music's Playing Field
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 »| Updated over 3 years ago -
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The Skinny's Album of 2023: Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy
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 »| Updated over 1 year ago -
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Scottish AOTY: The Twilight Sad – It Won/t Be Like This All the Time
A quick glance at The Twilight Sad's previous album titles gives a good insight into the sort of subject matter they're concerned with: Winter... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
Clubs
Dance Dance Revolution: The 2010s in Scottish Clubbing
It will come as a surprise to absolutely no one when I say that a lot can happen in ten years. In 2010, audio and video streams didn’t contribute towar... Read more »| Updated over 5 years ago -
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The SAY Award: Album submissions open for 2022
The Scottish Album of the Year Award, aka The SAY Award, is back for its 11th edition, and the window is now open for artists, bands, labels and music-lovers... Read more »| Updated almost 3 years ago -
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Pop Thrills: A Love Letter to Scottish Pop
How do you get yours? Blaring LOUD from your car radio? On a playlist a pal made you? On shiny, special edition vinyl? On... cassette? When was the last time... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
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Introducing HANG, a new Scottish hip-hop and grime event
Hip-hop’s influence on contemporary music and society in general is huge, although here in Scotland the genre still remains on the periphery, despite t... Read more »| Updated almost 4 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 3-10 May: Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
This year's Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival will explore the theme of ‘Beginnings’, with a focus on young people to coincide with the Scotti... Read more »| Updated almost 7 years ago -
Music
ANNO: Anna Meredith & Scottish Ensemble @ Pleasance at EICC, Edinburgh, 18 Aug
Anna Meredith is the irrefutable queen of this year’s Edinburgh Festival. The composer has returned to the city in which she was raised this month with... Read more »| Updated over 6 years ago -
Things To Do
What's On Scotland 5-12 Dec: Scottish Ballet's The Nutcracker & more
Escape the ever darkening days and duck into a magical world of sugar plum fairies, dancing dolls and scheming mice in this gorgeous production of Tchaikovsk... Read more »| Updated 5 months ago