From Dundee to Alexandria, SHHE continues her musical explorations of water on new record Thalassa Ahead of very special shows at Dundee's Bonar Hall and @thequeenshall.bsky.social, we catch up with SHHE www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interv... #newmusicfriday

As 1984 New York is devastated by AIDS, one woman sees the ghosts of the dead in Natalie Adler's moving and warm queer fable on grief and community ★★★★ for Waiting On A Friend www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...

Cristian Mungiu's latest film Fjord doesn’t ask you to choose a side so much as it observes the morally fraught terrain when contrasting ideals crash together like encroaching tectonic plates... @iana.bsky.social's review, direct from Cannes www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/in...

Hidden Door returns to #Edinburgh next month with a bumper lineup – we have tickets to be won, details on the website

Sonica is back with another gloriously unpredictable lineup of music and art across Glasgow this Autumn, from mansion house takeovers to shopping centre art installations – details via @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/uk... @crypticglasgow.bsky.social

"The remarkable ensemble cast of eight take us through the depths of their hopes and hardships" Read our ★★★★ review of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-winning drama SWEAT before it comes to @lyceumedinburgh.bsky.social next week

"Songs wrestle with romantic friction, loss and personal identity, but on stage she’s never afraid to crack a joke" Gig review: JESCA HOOP @ The Caves, Edinburgh – read the whole review below

"The city is in mass decline… it feels like Glasgow City Council are just selling it out, and it feels like it’s definitely lost its edge." We catch up with DOSS to talk all things Glasgow and dig into their new EP, coming out later this month

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"I love that idea; like a branching family tree of the things I love, represented in my music" Pop maverick Lauren Auder talks influences, AI and rejecting introspection ahead of a set at Edinburgh's Hidden Door Festival www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interv... @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social

On her debut album, Radhika pays homage to her heroes while asserting her own voice and establishing her dream-pop sound www.theskinny.co.uk/music/review... @glassmodern.bsky.social

Hen offers a very literal bird's-eye-view on an unnatural world – ★★★★ for György Pálfi's new film, out this weekend via @conic.film www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-rel... [review by @carmenchloie.bsky.social]

Playful in nature and scientific in its approach, ★★★★ for the debut album from Glasgow producer and bandleader Sonedo

What does it mean to be a comrade? What does it mean to be a parent? What does it mean to labour? The 16th edition of the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival wrestled with these questions and more – @katiedriscoll.bsky.social recaps a rejuvenating weekend

It's Friday, so it's New Scottish Music time – added to our playlist, new tracks from Dead Pony, @waltdisco.bsky.social, corto.alto, pedalo, Adam Ross, Kohla, Sulka, Oran Jusu, Bottle Rockets + Maz and the Phantasms

Season five of @wonderfools.org's amazing Positive Stories for Negative Times features new plays for young people by Greg McHugh, Xhloe & Natasha and Johnny McKnight www.theskinny.co.uk/theatre/show...

Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a bold send-up of classic slashers that turns the genre into a heady playground for a gender and sexual awakening our review from Cannes, by @iana.bsky.social

"Dead Pony is an ever-evolving entity and we’re constantly working on refining our sound" Ahead of stepping into a new era of Dead Pony with their latest EP, Eat My Dust!, we catch up with the unstoppable force that is singer Anna Shields

"I’d walk on stage with a hijab on in North East London. I knew people hated me before I opened my mouth" Fatiha El-Ghorri discusses her rise through the comedy circuit ahead of bringing Cockney Stacking Doll to Edinburgh and Glasgow

"Polite Indian society frowned at me for my ‘spoiled’ behaviour, yes. But western society does something worse – it studies me." One writer shares a personal history of dancing, and the founding of Edinburgh party night Brown Gals Dance Club 🪩 www.theskinny.co.uk/clubs/interv...

"He said ‘do you think there are children in Gaza? There are no children in Gaza! We are born grown-ups'" Syrian journalist Samar Yazbek discusses her collection of testimonials from Gazans living under genocide – out next week via @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...

The full lineup for our Pyramid Stage takeover at Kelburn Garden Party is finally here 🎪 🎉 Joining the bill are SAY Award winners Kai Reesu, GAÏA, Isa Gordon, Chef The Rapper and loads more

"Chips make me feel glad to be alive." This spring, Stuart McPherson takes Crisps and a Lie Down, his celebrated Fringe show from last year, on tour. Ahead of the tour's conclusion in Glasgow, we subject him to our monthly Q&A

"Let me say that actually having too much sympathy for men is my leading character flaw" In this month's ASK ANAHIT advice column, one reader sleeps with a friend who won't text back

"I wanted a really good blend of what's happening in and around the city with things that are more accessible and definitely some things that could be recreated at home" Peter McKenna on curating Glasgow's best chefs for Queen's Park Food Festival 🍽️

"Instruments want to be played." For our Politics and Community issue, we interview three groups running music instrument libraries and breaking down the barriers of affordability in the arts

Catch Sailm nan Daoine from Friday, plus a special Q&A screening with director Jack Archer on Monday 18 May! ✨ 👉 www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/sailm-...

This month’s LOVE BITES columnist hails the power of niche celebrity gossip and is here to argue that an investment in this girly-pops’ Discourse does a radical political feminist make ❤️

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Sailm nan Daoine brings audiences along on an intimate road trip exploring the emotional and cultural resonance of Gaelic psalm singing @carmenchloie.bsky.social chats to its director and star, the film's on at @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social from Friday

On her latest album as SHHE, Su Shaw continues to hone her ear for ambient music that is urgent and foregrounded – it's out on Friday via @olirecords.bsky.social

On album number four, MUNA swap the sun-soaked confessionals for something edgier and more tightly wound www.theskinny.co.uk/music/review... @whereismuna.bsky.social

Bob Odenkirk's action man arc continues in NORMAL, but too often the script feels like a splicing together of similar (and better) films www.theskinny.co.uk/film/new-rel... [review by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]

"This is James standing alongside the people who inspire her and made her feel like she belongs" Detached From The Rest of You by Loraine James (@lojammusic.bsky.social) is out today on @hyperdub.bsky.social – read our ★★★★ review

"I have cinema to create the memories I'm lacking" Romería is out today – @jslaterwilliams.bsky.social interviews director Carla Simón about recreating memories, embracing magic realism and looking back at her parents' radical generation www.theskinny.co.uk/film/intervi... @film.curzon.com

The 2026 Edinburgh Film Festival will kick off with The Incomer, the debut feature from Edinburgh-born director Louis Paxton www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/ed... [by @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]

"Songs interwoven with rich detail and a razor-sharp tightness" ★★★★ album review: COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT, by Cola, out today via @firetalkrecs.bsky.social

"Simultaneously interrogates individual trauma and submissiveness, while also making wry feminist observations" THE COLONY is out Mon 11 May via @saltpublishing.com – read our review of Christiana Spens' new novel

"Every note has its place and needs to be played consciously – dynamics, phrasing, everything is deliberate." Susannah Wapshott of @scottishopera.bsky.social on accessibility, Mozart’s near-perfect score and why The Marriage of Figaro still resonates now

"It feels like we're getting to know the real Harding" ★★★★ album review: Aldous Harding – Train on the Island, out tomorrow via @4ad.com

"A wonderful retelling of workers' strength and solidarity" Read our ★★★★ review of Stand and Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In 👖 www.theskinny.co.uk/theatre/show... @trontheatre.bsky.social @ntsonline.bsky.social

"The campaign isn't just about a building. It’s about the very soul of Glasgow.” In light of City Property's decision to quadruple rent for tenants at Trongate 103, we question the profit-motivated decisions damaging the arts community

"Captures the stagnation and confusion of one’s late twenties in excruciating detail" Avigayl Sharp explores the bleakly comic millennial urge to self-diagnose in wickedly abrasive debut novel OFFSEASON (★★★★)

"A three-hour journey into betrayal, brotherhood, and sacrifice." A yakuza member trades a life of crime for kabuki theatre in KOHUKO – read our film review

May is busy AF for Scottish releases, with albums and EPs from Saint Sappho, Acolyte, Bill Wells, Orla Noble, Dead Pony, and well, the list goes on, and on, and on...

"When you don’t know the rules, you don’t care about breaking the rules" As she gears up to release her fifth solo album, I Think That I Might Love You, we talk the past, present and future with Carla J. Easton www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interv... @carlajeaston.bsky.social

"Lykke Li has thrown the kitchen sink at this album" Our album of the month is Lykke Li's The Afterparty – the Swedish pop artist's best, and possibly final, release (★★★★★)

"This gentle aesthetic masks a filmmaker with a steely eye for the difficulties and intricacies of family and history" Romería, Carla Simón’s follow-up to Alcarràs, is out this week – read our ★★★★ review

Dundead returns with a horror programme featuring lots of hungry women, GFT celebrates its birthday with a bumper programme of classics and Doc’n Roll Film Festival is back! 📽️ www.theskinny.co.uk/film/film-ev... @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social @docnrollfilms.bsky.social @dcadundee.bsky.social

"A paean to the effervescent pop of the likes of Strawberry Switchblade" I THINK I MIGHT LOVE YOU, Carla J Easton's fifth album – and first release after co-directing a documentary about Scottish girl groups – gets ★★★★ from us www.theskinny.co.uk/music/review... @carlajeaston.bsky.social