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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ReviewsAidan Baker – Half Lives
Multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker’s double album Half Lives shows the Canadian bridging his ambient and lyrical modes on the electric-guitar leaning Mo... Read more »| 02 Apr 2015 -
ReviewsStornoway – Bonxie
Through sounds of cheeps and twitterings, Stornoway’s latest release emerges; one word to describe their new obsession – birds. It’s assure... Read more »| 02 Apr 2015 -
Live MusicScouts @ Maguire's Pizza Bar, Liverpool, 22 March
The biggest problem with Liverpool four-piece Scouts’ set tonight is the lack of a sound engineer, and it’s a real shame. Their hugely impressive... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
News
FFS announce album details, share new track Piss Off
FFS, the collaboration between Glasgow art rockers Franz Ferdinand and LA new wavers Sparks, have revealed the details of their forthcoming album, as well as... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
News
Pleasance Sessions 'to take year off’ for 2015
UPDATE: The Pleasance Sessions will in fact return for an October weekender in 2015! The annual Pleasance Sessions series of music, spoken word and comedy s... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
ReviewsFrancis MacDonald – Music For String Quartet, Piano And Celeste
Rein in those tiresome drummer jokes: Teenage Fanclub’s multi-talented sticksman Francis MacDonald is here to make nonsense of all those clapped-o... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015
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News
GIT Award announces One To Watch winner for 2015
Huyton-born Louis Berry claims the One To Watch Prize ahead of the main award ceremony Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Festivals
The Twilight Sad – 'I Love The Living You' (in session at SxSW)
For the first time on record, The Twilight Sad perform an acoustic cover of Austin native Roky Erickson's track 'I Love the Living You', taken from his 1999 ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
News
Record Store Day in Scotland
With this year’s Record Store Day specials already making prophetic dents in your post-Easter funds (not to mention those of your friendly neighbourhoo... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
Cut the Slack: Words with Courtney Barnett
With her profile rising rapidly, Courtney Barnett's debut album has finally seen the light of day. She tells us about finding fascination in the plain ol' ordinary... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
ReviewsThomas Truax – Jetstream Sunset
The Dr Seuss of pop returns. With The Hornicator (the home-made assemblage of various instruments and components that drives his off-beat – in both sen... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Föllakzoid – III
III promises more of the same for Chilean ‘cosmic music’ band Föllakzoid, masters of the mantric ten-minute krautrock groove. However, this ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
Whisky in the Water: Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard Interviewed
The Death Cab For Cutie frontman on surviving breaks and staying publicly personal for the band's eighth album Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Live Music
Nothing Ever Happens Here: Broken Records / Garden Of Elks / Fuzzystar @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 27 Mar
Can’t fault the folks behind Nothing Ever Happens Here for their noble intention to reignite the Edinburgh live music scene; enthusiastic cheers please... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Bop English – Constant Bop
At first glance Constant Bop just looks like a sixties pastiche. From the pastel-washed cover to the cheesey title, this could pass for a lost Tim Buckl... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015