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The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 16-23 Feb: Glasgow Film Festival, Rob St John + Vintage Village Fete     ... Read more »

The Saturday forecast is a little grim, but what’s T in the Park without a little drizzle? The likes of The Last Shadow Puppets and The 1975 attem... Read more »

Nearly ten years in the making, The Crimson Wing follows the lives and deaths of the flamingos of Lake Natron, a Northern Tanzanian salt lake uninhabitable f... Read more »

BREW AT THE BOG2-3 May; tickets £55 The word ‘boutique’ gets thrown around a lot these days, and strangely often with regards to commodi... Read more »

Books 1) Karl Geary & Samanta Schweblin: Deeply Unsettling Secrets Books Editor Alan Bett’s main reason for turning up at this event will be to ha... Read more »

It is early evening in the basement venue of Glasgow bar Nice N Sleazy and Howie Payne is excitedly talking up the new group he is co-managing. The... Read more »

“I'm learning so much from the things that terrify me,” says Kate Tempest, taking a call in the middle of a rammed few weeks. (She's a new book o... Read more »

Being the first band on at any show can be a daunting experience. Sparse crowds, indifferent punters and the constant din of bar conversations are all obstac... Read more »

Top Ten Events Scotland 16-23 May: Stag and Dagger, Mount Eerie + Southside Film Festival         ... Read more »

Top Ten Events Scotland 16-23 Jan: The Skinny 100, Celtic Connections + The Colour Ham         ... Read more »

As club culture has branched off in various distinct directions over the years, electronic music and DJing have increasingly acquired a more sophisticated st... Read more »

Top Events Scotland 10-17 Jul | T in the Park, Ghostface Killah + Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival Music 1... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events Scotland 4-11 Jul: Adam Stafford, Iain Banks + Kelburn Garden Party     ... Read more »

The OK Social Club – The Shape of Things to Come (Platform Records, 2 Apr)Paul Mellon: This is like a Scottish Razorlight or something.Raindeer: It&rsq... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events Scotland 8-15 Aug: Doogie Paul Memorial Concert, Book Festival + Burgher Burger   &... Read more »

Day two began waking wearily from again more revelry in the Headphone Disco tent and the fuzzy memory of standing with fists in the air to John Farham’... Read more »

The Skinny meets Sharleen Spiteri on the morning of Texas' ninth album drop. Over a cuppa outside Facebook’s London headquarters, where the band i... Read more »

But enough already, here's the story so far from one of the bands we dig the most on this year's T in the Park bill. Sunday night in out-patients anyone?Back... Read more »

The Connect Festival – this year renamed Hydro Connect thanks to a sponsorship hook-up with Scottish Hydro Electric – has got everything going fo... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events 12-19 Apr: Graham Coxon, Bass Face + Green Door Weekender      ... Read more »

Iain Cook, Martin Doherty, and Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES are waiting for The Skinny in the lobby of the W Hotel looking patient, gentle, and perfectly... Read more »

By the third day, things are always going to be a little worse for wear. Non-stop overnight rainfall continues well into Sunday morning, with the resultant q... Read more »

The Skinny | CyberZAP Top Ten Events Scotland 1-8 Aug: The Pale Imitation Festival, Armellodie on Tour + Record Fair   ... Read more »

"First thing I want to talk about," insists Broken Social Scene's Andrew Whiteman, diving straight in to lead the conversation, "is the hilarious idea of cal... Read more »

By Sunday, the ground at Strathallan is 'spongy' at best. An overnight deluge has added to the weekend's sogginess and a few early revellers cowp into the mu... Read more »

Top Ten Events Northwest 25 Apr-2 May: Underachievers, Washington Irving + Discoteca Poca   THE WEEK AHEAD Imagin... Read more »

The ascent of Michael Render, aka Killer Mike, and Jaime Meline, aka El-P has been spectacular and apparently unstoppable, but it has to be said that it&rsqu... Read more »

Juice Garden223 Byres Rd@juice_gardenIt might make you feel a bit like a Kardashian, but you’re just going to have to overlook that. Juice Garden&rsquo... Read more »

Ever since D.A. Pennebaker’s landmark documentary Don't Look Back, where the sardonic backstage antics of a young Bob Dylan proved as entertaining... Read more »

Trans Musicales curator Jean-Louis Brossard presents a varied and eccentric bill; forging an unlikely alliance between young electronic and indie rock acts w... Read more »