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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ReviewsJonnie Common – Deskjob
Deskjob is not, Jonnie Common has been keen to stress, a remix album. There’s no chopping and screwing here: instead, consider his role akin to Phil Sp... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
InterviewsRustie: The Appliance of Science
Polygenre electronic music producer Rustie's debut LP sees the erstwhile Glaswegian fulfil the glistening promise of his early hip-hop, R&B, Detroit techno and dubstep experiments. It comes as no surprise to find him in a museum dedicated to advancement Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Interviews
L.A. Times: The Californication of M83
On the day after his new album leaked, The Skinny meets M83's Anthony Gonzalez to talk space travel, stereotypes and the Hollywood Hills Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Live Music
Ghostpoet @ Captain's Rest, 24 September
After a rousing set of homegrown hip-hop from Hector Bizerk, an emcee / drummer combo from Glasgow whose impressively tight lyrics and heavy, complex beats r... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
InterviewsWe Were Promised Jetpacks: Telling Stories
Once upon a time, four young men, who went by the name We Were Promised Jetpacks, picked up some guitars and drums and made an album that lots of people really liked. So much so in fact that they decided to do it again... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011 -
Reviews
The Dead Man's Waltz – The Dead Man's Waltz
Taking their cues from the more morbid side of life, The Dead Man’s Waltz don’t so much pen songs as craft twisted tales of betrayal, murder and ... Read more »| 27 Sep 2011
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ReviewsMeg Baird – Seasons On Earth
Meg Baird makes the kind of pretty, but sad, singer-songwriter Americana folk that soothes the soul, even if it is sometimes too languid to conjure any lasti... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Live Music
Metronomy @ Òran Mór, 23 September
It’s a risky strategy to have Edinburgh’s Discopolis opening the show tonight: the trio’s high-energy synthscapes threaten to raise the pit... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Live Music
Three Trapped Tigers @ Captain's Rest, 21 September
There’s a reason Three Trapped Tigers’ ‘IDM played live’ sound is a rarity: it looks bloody difficult. All three members possess ston... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Live Music
Slow Club @ Cabaret Voltaire, 19 September
As Slow Club herald the arrival of their tasty new album, Paradise, with a show packed full of messy energy, articulate banter and exquisitely stripped-down ... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Interviews
Mastodon: “It's refreshing to be a little childish"
Having conquered the elements, Troy Sanders tells us what’s next for Mastodon Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Reviews
DJ Shadow – The Less You Know, The Better
Abandoning the goodtime crunk and tombola-plucked guests of 2007’s die-hard riling The Outsider, Josh Davis returns with a jukebox album, bound to at l... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Reviews
Stephin Merritt – Obscurities
Stephin Merritt has described curating Obscurities an ‘agonising’ and ‘depressing’ experience, with most candidate tracks decreed obs... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Reviews
M83 – Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
M83’s last album, Saturdays = Youth, was their biggest critical and commercial success to date. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, then, is a curveball. W... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011 -
Reviews
Keith Top Of The Pops & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band – Fuck You! I'm Keith Top Of The Pops
Clearly saturated in ramshackle influences such as Half Man Half Biscuit, The Fall and Carter USM (who feature here), Keith TOTP can't quite shake off the co... Read more »| 26 Sep 2011