Playlists
Here at the Skinny, we love splashing new life into our music library. Sharing album premieres, Spotify playlists from some of our favourite artists, and track by track guides to brand new albums - we’ve got stacked playlists to keep your headphones humming.
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PlaylistsUnder the Influence: Melvins' Buzz Osborne
Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne takes to his hammock, engages the caps lock and lifts the lid on his desert island discs Read more »| 27 Oct 2009 -
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A Muso's Top 10: WHY?
Since Alopecia came out, we've been on tour for maybe half of those months. We've been all over the US twice, all over Europe four times, Japan once and Isra... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009 -
PlaylistsThe Twilight Sad's Forget the Night Ahead: Track-By-Track, By the Band
Reflection of the Television We weren't really sure if this one was going to be on the album; we had the chords and vocal line, and thought we'd give it a go... Read more »| 08 Sep 2009 -
PlaylistsA Muso's Top 10: Strike the Colours
The next Strike The Colours album is called Seven Roads. I called it that because some of the songs seemed to take on a travelling theme, or be about belongi... Read more »| 01 Sep 2009 -
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A Muso's Top 10: The Twilight Sad
Since the first record, some of the things we've been doing are: playing gajillions of gigs round UK, Europe, America and Canada, drinking too much, not slee... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
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Under the Influence: The Telescopes
Melody Maker once surmised that resurgent space rock outfit The Telescopes were "like mad cultural terrorists, they've taken the norm and fed it through a psychedelic blender." Here, frontman Stephen Lawrie explains that many of the those early influences Read more »| 24 Jul 2009
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I Hear a New World - June, 2009
Unusual and innovative music from Scotland and beyond Read more »| 10 Jun 2009 -
PlaylistsA Muso's Top Ten: Steve Mason
In anticipation of his DJ set at RockNess this month, Steve Mason (AKA King Biscuit Time / The Black Affair) gives us a wee taster of the evening’s tun... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
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I Hear a New World - May 2009
Come May we ought to be preparing ourselves for four months of long hot days lounging about in beer gardens in a sun-drenched reverie, complemented by Grease... Read more »| 06 May 2009 -
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A Muso's Top 10: Dananananaykroyd
In their few years together, this Glasgow sextet has managed to create a uniquely energetic sound (often self-described as 'Fight-Pop') and make a name for t... Read more »| 29 Apr 2009 -
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I Hear a New World - April, 2009
Unusual and innovative music from Scotland and beyond. Read more »| 06 Apr 2009 -
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A Muso's Top 10: Conrad Keely
Before those perennial Texan hellraisers ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead swoop down on Glasgow to tout the fruits of current effort The Century ... Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
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Mastodon Talk Crack the Skye: Exclusive Track-by-Track Preview
There’s been a lot of talk about the narrative behind Mastodon’s fourth LP proper – blown up to the heavens as a transcendental dream set in Tsarist Russia. But what about the way it actually, y’know, sounds? Before they unleash the devil and take to the road to play the album in its entirety, the explosive Atlantan quartet provide an exclusive track-by-track insight into the way songs were conceived, written and recorded – a firsthand account on the architecture of Crack the Skye. Guitarist Bill Kelliher picks up the story… Read more »| 18 Mar 2009 -
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A Muso's Top 10: Isobel Campbell
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A Muso's Top 10: Jack Black
I’ve been making some good music for my deep tissue massage lately. You don’t want to just leave it up to the masseuse, because he’ll bring... Read more »| 06 Mar 2009