Deap Vally's guttural blues rock might have earned them friends in high places, but the LA duo's fashion sense is yet to win over the traditionalists. Drummer Julie Edwards explains...
Gallic electro-shoegaze rockers Team Ghost are set to blaze a trail through the year with debut album Rituals. The Skinny got the lowdown from singer Nicolas Fromageau (ex-M83), synth-wizard Benoît...
Tipped for the top in 2013 by Grimes, and coming off the back of a sold-out tour supporting Purity Ring, Canada's latest electronic sensations, Doldrums, combine anthemic indie rock and...
Glasgow's Golden Grrrls make no secret of their penchant for the often overlooked Kiwi music scene. Founder Ruari MacLean presents '5 Cool Things to Check Out If You Like New...
The Joy Formidable's Ritzy Bryan on Wolf's Law, highland rescues, and why major label status hasn't blinkered the Welsh trio
We join post-hardcore champs United Fruit in their Glasgow rehearsal space as they take a break from demoing album number two to pan for pop hits. There will be dub...
Frightened Rabbit look poised to take their emotional and anthemic sound to a wider audience with the release of Pedestrian Verse. We caught up with Scott, Grant and Gordon ahead...
Now you've beaten those stinking January blues, it's time to get back in the circle-pit and lose your mind, droogs. For a kick off, you could either hit up the...
Returning to the fray this month with their ‘darkest record yet,’ frontman Scott Hutchison guides us through Frightened Rabbit's eagerly anticipated fourth LP...
Jeff Mills is one of the seminal originators of techno music. He comes to Glasgow next month to premiere his new soundtrack for Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon. He...
From its genesis eight years ago to the finish line last spring, Rick Redbeard presents a personal tour of his debut LP
While The Phantom Band cook their third LP, frontman Rick Anthony prepares his stirring songbook of dark Americana for release this month
Never let it be said that The Skinny isn't a broad church; from neo-black metallers to robo-soul divas, here's just a few talents our music team will be rooting for...
Tomahawk's guitarist time travels back to 1972, the year glam rock broke
New material alert! Single Where Are We Now? out today, album to follow in March
Sinkane's Mars was a thrilling mixture of African rhythms and melodies, abstract jazz and space-age soul. The Skinny talked to him about the album his time in bands like Yeasayer...
As seasoned players from Dundee's alternative rock fraternity, Fat Goth aren't exactly shy of riffs on their startling second album, but they're not scared of rolling out the ballads either....
As Tomahawk return to the fray with album number four, guitarist Duane Denison accounts for the experimental rock supergroup's five year absence
Requesting we keep the identities of the artists secret (“I’m going to try and guess”), Julian Corrie aka Miaoux Miaoux slips on his critic’s hat. “This reviewing gets harder as...
In a busy start to your crisp new gig calendar; Dinosaur Jr, Young Fathers, United Fruit and The Computers are just a few to scribble under January 2013...
