Interviews
The Skinny discusses new releases and record choices with prominent artists and producers; covering everything from albums and songs to influences and matters of the heart.
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InterviewsPleasure Palaces: Remember Remember
Part two of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series finds Remember Remember's Graeme Ronald feeling like the janny at the old primary school his band uses for rehearsals Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
InterviewsPleasure Palaces: The Phantom Band
In the first part of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series, The Phantom Band's Andy Wake tells Steev Livingstone about the space they make music in Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
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Muscles of Joy: Room of Their Own
Glasgow’s Muscles of Joy, an all-female vocal-led septet, talk about building their own instruments and jamming away rather quietly Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
InterviewsWe Are Augustines: Back from the Brink
Having penned a concept album based around family bereavement, The Skinny is surprised to find a New York trio happy to be just making music Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
InterviewsThe Big Pink: "We needed to create a different energy"
As The Big Pink trade in their explosive debut's distortion, Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze tell us why their live show will be all change on Valentine's Day Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
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Errors: "If certain people hadn’t been at early shows, who knows what would have happened"
Before Errors storm the land with their cosmic third LP, we sit down with the Glasgow trio to talk good fortune, aborted album titles and the joys of making a bedroom record Read more »| 31 Jan 2012
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Mark Lanegan: "My natural inclination is to make as loud a noise as possible"
Returning this month with his first 'solo' album since 2004, Mark Lanegan assembles his band for a Blues Funeral and lays the past to rest Read more »| 31 Jan 2012 -
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Tangles: 21st Century Schizoid Man
Tangles' Ricky Egan documents his many recording guises and explains how he went from obscurity to soundtracking a prime-time BBC soap Read more »| 31 Jan 2012 -
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First Listen: Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas
At the playback of his first album in eight years, Leonard Cohen proves that as the decades advance, he's still got plenty left to offer Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
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Django Django: Away with the Pharaohs
Drummer and producer Dave Maclean explains the influence of history and sci-fi on Django Django's long-incubating debut Read more »| 30 Jan 2012 -
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Kathleen Edwards: A Soft Place To Land
Canadian chanteuse Kathleen Edwards finds a home in Bon Iver's Wisconsin studio Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
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The Twilight Sad: “We never want to remake the same record just because it’s pleased some people”
Having lost a member but survived the fall-out, The Twilight Sad have come out fighting with a stripped back, propulsive third album. In celebration we caught up with them for a chat, a victory pint and a ploughman’s Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Discopolis: Into the Rainbow Vein
Having started life as a Bloc Party tribute act a few short years ago, Edinburgh's Discopolis have since morphed into a band that the world can embrace. The Skinny joins them on tour in Malta Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
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Cymbals Eat Guitars: Get to the Chorus
Staten Island's Cymbals Eat Guitars say this will be the year they kick it up a notch Read more »| 04 Jan 2012 -
InterviewsPrimal Scream: “It makes you cool with the children, when you're on X Factor"
Andrew Innes talks to The Skinny about Hogmanay in Edinburgh, tension in the studio, and gives a blow by blow account of their forthcoming LP (warning, the last one's a lie) Read more »| 07 Dec 2011