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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InterviewsUptown Again: The Afghan Whigs
As his reinvigorated soul rock ensemble play their first gig in Scotland since 1999, frontman Greg Dulli relays the virtues of make ups, break ups and calling Saul Goodman Read more »| 02 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
King Creosote – From Scotland With Love
Written to soundtrack the archive-compiled documentary of the same name, From Scotland With Love is equally effective in cut-down, re-ordered album form. The... Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Interviews
Oursels As Ithers See Us: King Creosote and Virginia Heath on From Scotland With Love
Compiled from hundreds of hours of archive material, From Scotland With Love narrates Scottish history and heritage through the lives of everyday people, to a soundtrack by King Creosote. We speak to KC and director Virginia Heath about the project Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
InterviewsDivine Rapture: Simon Raymonde revisits Cocteau Twins' purple patch
As 4AD re-release Cocteau Twins' seminal albums Blue Bell Knoll and Heaven or Las Vegas, Simon Raymonde tells us what life in the fold was like during the band's commercial peak Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
FestivalsOn the Prowl with Deathcats
Their logo proclaims they belong to the Reverb Militia, but rising 'surf catcore' trio Deathcats don't do battle offstage (provided your ticket prices are reasonable) Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
Lawrence English – Wilderness of Mirrors
A series of abstruse sonic abstractions? Or something, judging by its wholly prescriptive titling, more narratively inclined than that? The latest in a portf... Read more »| 01 Jul 2014
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Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – July 2014
We’ve an unusual embarrassment of riches, including Ghostface Killah and The Twilight Sad in Liverpool, and Sleigh Bells in Manchester Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Live Music
Gig Highlights – July 2014
While the fields are infested, we seek our rock'n'roll, hip-hop and psych rock indoors Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
Reviews
Fink – Hard Believer
Fink's sixth album proper delves deeper into the bluesy territory that has long been his root source of inspiration; but by narrowing his scope to eschew the... Read more »| 01 Jul 2014 -
News
James Murphy, Swervedriver and more join East End Social finale weekend
Part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme (and a most welcome addition to the Scottish festival season), The East End Social and Chemikal Underground have ... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
ReviewsSlow Club – Complete Surrender
Midway through Everything Is New, the second track on Complete Surrender, the strings and big, gospel-style vocals kick in. At that point the penny... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
The Icarus Line – Avowed Slavery
Hot on the heels of last year’s slow-burning Slave Vows, California’s meanest return with five more slabs of molten psychosis for our sick pleasu... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
The National Jazz Trio of Scotland – Standards Vol. III
On their third volume of Standards, Bill Wells’ mischievously christened National Jazz Trio of Scotland (actually a quartet, completed by vocalists Aby... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Reviews
Honeyblood – Honeyblood
In tone, Stina Tweeddale’s vocals on Super Rat are disarmingly sweet; in content, they’re scintillatingly vitriolic. “I will hate you forev... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014 -
Live Music
O2 Love Music Column – July 2014
If you’re looking for summertime soul, there are few safer hands than Lalah Hathaway, daughter of Chicago legend Donny. Having scooped a Grammy this ye... Read more »| 30 Jun 2014