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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OpinionHero Worship: Bruce Springsteen
York troubadour Benjamin Francis Leftwich bows down at The Boss's altar Read more »| 23 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
The Machine Room – Love From A Distance EP
Edinburgh’s The Machine Room resemble a morning-after Delphic; they won’t necessarily make you dance, but their romantic melancholy could comfort... Read more »| 22 Feb 2012 -
ReviewsTreacherous Orchestra – Origins
The traditions of celtic folk music have seen a welcome revival in recent years, but perhaps more exciting is the exploration of how they can be crossed with... Read more »| 21 Feb 2012 -
ReviewsRonin – Fenice
“Instrumental music” is a term which, for many people, carries a lot of baggage. Some good and some bad, no doubt. Whereas numerous groups have a... Read more »| 21 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose
Almost a full year since it was first released across the pond, Screws Get Loose has finally washed up on these shores. A quartet from Murfreesboro, Tennesse... Read more »| 20 Feb 2012 -
InterviewsPleasure Palaces: Errors
In the conclusion of Errors' five-part series on musicians' spaces in Glasgow, Steev Livingstone talks to, er, Steev Livingstone about making records in his bandmate's flat Read more »| 17 Feb 2012
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Interviews
Pleasure Palaces: Jamie Grier
Steev Livingstone talks to The Glue Factory's resident live engineer Jamie Grier in the fourth part of Errors' series on musicians' spaces Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
Live Music
GZA/Hector Bizerk @ The Arches, 13 February
The Arches is already near capacity, with a crowd in boisterous mood when Hector Bizerk take to the stage. It's the kind of environment where many support ac... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
Live MusicJustice @ O2 Academy, 12 February
A brightly lit cross, two French guys whose haircuts bob like violent metronomes, and faux-Marshall amps that double as strobes piercing an otherwise Spartan... Read more »| 16 Feb 2012 -
Interviews
Pleasure Palaces: Mother Ganga
In the third installment of Errors' 'Pleasure Palaces' series on creative spaces, Mother Ganga's Lewis Cook tells how he gets the joss sticks out round his girlfriends flat Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
Live Music
In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February
In Pictures: Frightened Rabbit / We Are Augustines / Fatherson @ HMV Picture House, 10 February This sold out leg of HMV's 'Next Big Thing' showcase brought... Read more »| 15 Feb 2012 -
Interviews
Pleasure 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 -
Interviews
Pleasure 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 -
Live Music
Mastodon/The Dillinger Escape Plan @ Barrowlands, 7 February
It's safe to say that The Dillinger Escape Plan have played a significant part in selling out tonight's show; a touch of anxiety lingers before the inevitabl... Read more »| 14 Feb 2012 -
Live Music
The Twilight Sad @ Grand Ole Opry, 9 February
The Grand Ole Opry makes an unlikely venue in which to see The Twilight Sad. With confederacy flags and neon lighting adorning each wall, a neutral observer ... Read more »| 13 Feb 2012