Music
The 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.
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Live MusicHoneyblood / Laura St Jude / Bite @ Broadcast, 29 October
Broadcast tonight hosts three bands who differ in sound though are united in their potential to make a noise in places much further afield than the rough end... Read more »| 05 Nov 2013 -
InterviewsLA Songwriter Julia Holter on Gigi, Lynch and Loud City Song
Julia Holter's previous albums have explored poetry and Greek tragedy. The LA songwriter and composer talks to us about how, with its themes of celebrity and the loss of love, a 1950s musical has influenced her new LP, Loud City Song Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
M.I.A. – Matangi
M.I.A. returns with a new album, this time with production masterminded in the main by longtime collaborator, Switch. It's as alternately as dark, steamy and... Read more »| 04 Nov 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 1 November
In today's Bulletin: The music world pays tribute to Lou Reed; Scottish film studio plans complicated by US TV show Outlander; The Scotsman picks the 50 best novels of the last 50 years, and Foals' Yannis Philippakis hits out at Spotify Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
ReviewsOvO – Abisso
Halloween may be done with for another year, but there are plenty of long nights ahead; plenty of inky witching hours crying out for a suitably unsettling so... Read more »| 01 Nov 2013 -
Interviews
Synthetic Pleasures: Ubre Blanca in conversation
Formed from the ashes of Shitdisco and Divorce, synth enthusiasts Ubre Blanca discuss their debut EP, retro-futurism, and Glasgow's alternative music scene Read more »| 31 Oct 2013
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Live Music
Suede / Teleman @ Barrowlands, 27 October
Between the present tour slot and the Bernard Butler-produced debut album due next year, Teleman have been enjoying Suede-related patronage for a while now. ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Reviews
Chantal Acda – Let Your Hands Be My Guide
Though billed as her first ‘real solo record’ (following a trio of softly sumptuous slowcore releases under the Sleepingdog moniker), Chantal Acd... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Interviews
Home Comforts: Wooden Shjips' Ripley Johnson on Back to Land
If previous album West was a story of outward-looking horizons, then Wooden Shjips’ follow-up Back to Land retreats to the familiar – and there’s nothing wrong with that, argues Ripley Johnson Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
ReviewsSebastien Tellier – Confection
France’s Sebastien Tellier has always been a difficult figure to pin down. Having worked with Daft Punk, Mr Oizo and the legendary Nigerian drummer Ton... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Reviews
Guido – Moods of Future Joy
Guido is a producer associated with the 'purple wow' sound which diverged from dubstep in the later part of the 2000s. An important landmark in the developme... Read more »| 31 Oct 2013 -
Live Music
Russian Circles / Chelsea Wolfe @ SWG3, 26 October
Chelsea Wolfe's rustic, goth-tinged dirge rewards a sizeable crowd for turning up extra early tonight; the shadowy image she's been harnessing over the years... Read more »| 30 Oct 2013 -
Playlists
Under the Influence: Dillinger Escape Plan's Ben Weinman
Through cult jazz fusionists and Headbangers Ball champions, The Dillinger Escape Plan's maverick founder unearths the ten LPs that sculpted his unique guitar-playing style Read more »| 30 Oct 2013 -
Interviews
Public Service Broadcasting's J. Willgoose Esq in interview
With a DVD of debut album Inform – Educate – Entertain due shortly, J. Willgoose Esq discusses Public Service Broadcasting’s sounds and vision, and ponders their history-steeped style’s future Read more »| 30 Oct 2013 -
Interviews
Living in Phantasy Land: Connan Mockasin unveils Caramel
New Zealand's psychedelic son returns with Caramel, transferring his interest from dolphins to humans, and creating pop music on a whole other plane Read more »| 30 Oct 2013