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WEBThe Skinny Current Issue. On the cover this month, we have SOPHIE, the pioneering electronic artist whose posthumous album is set to be released this month. As we look forward to the new music, one writer considers how we can tend to a beloved artist’s memory without tainting their legacy. Glasgow’s festival of sound and vision, Sonica ...
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WEBReviews. Album, EP and single reviews from The Skinny. Find reviews of the biggest new releases, as well as new records from up-and-coming new artists from across Scotland, the UK and beyond. Albums.
The Linda Lindas album review: No Obligation - The Skinny
WEB1 day ago · With their youngest member just out of middle school, the group already has an impressive oeuvre. No Obligation is their second full-length release, and it's a certified banger – exactly the kind of music I needed as a teenager (and still do). Compositionally, the album is full of passion, rage and energy. It's a dazzling window into growing ...
Music - Album reviews, interviews, gigs and news -The Skinny
WEBThe Skinny magazine music guide. We bring you the latest music highlights, gig reviews and previews, music videos, album reviews and features. Find exclusive interviews with local bands and international stars, bespoke playlists and video premieres. Interviews.
Latest Album Reviews - Music - The Skinny
WEBGodspeed You! Black Emperor's latest album, in all of its warped, noisy instrumentation, is the embodiment of music as art Read more »
Ghibliverse: a new book on Studio Ghibli – The Skinny
WEB2 days ago · Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham have spent the last six years celebrating Studio Ghibli with their podcast Ghibliotheque. Their new book, Ghibliverse: Studio Ghibli Beyond the Films, dives even deeper and wider. For most cinephiles, Studio Ghibli, the animators behind all-time classics like …
Two for Joy: Spencer Jones on his debut tour - The Skinny
WEB1 day ago · Now Jones has the man’s musical squawk of “oh faaaack – fackin’ ‘ell” stuck in his head. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll see it as part of a set one day. Spencer Jones, The Stand, Glasgow, 19 Oct, 4pm, £16; Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, 21 Oct, 8pm, £17.60. We meet Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated prop comic Spencer Jones, who's driving ...
The Skinny on…Tricia Reid from Sophisticated Boom Boom
WEB1 day ago · 80s Glasgow band Sophisticated Boom Boom – a favourite of John Peel's – are reuniting to support the release of Carla J. Easton and Blair Young's doc Since Yesterday. Ahead of that gig, the band’s guitarist, Tricia Reid, takes our Q&A. Carla J. Easton and Blair Young's new film, Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands ...
The Skinny's Best Books of 2022
WEBDec 5, 2022 · Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova (Atlantic Books). Camilla Grudova's debut novel, Children of Paradise, is a grotesque ode to the sticky depths of Edinburgh's beloved independent cinemas and the invisible workforce who lurk in their aisles after dark. It’s a croaked whisper from behind a red velvet curtain, haunting and darkly seductive, which grows louder as the hallucinatory world ...