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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ReviewsFOE – Bad Dream Hotline
First off, if you're eagerly reading this article in anticipation of new material from the brilliant mathematical prog/jazz/hardcore outfit that graced the H... Read more »| 25 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsRM Hubbert – Thirteen Lost & Found
First & Last was perhaps ungenerously characterised as a ‘low-key introduction’ to RM Hubbert’s solo methods within these pages as we g... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Live MusicClutch @ Bar Bloc, 20 January
Clutch successfully grafts its big sound to the small stage of Bar Bloc. Chaos ensues... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Live MusicUnited Fruit @ King Tut's, 16 January
After an acoustic warm-up session in the downstairs bar from Jonathan Snee (Flood of Red), Kings Tut's New Years Revolution series continues with a set from ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Live Music
A Winged Victory for the Sullen @ Òran Mór, 15 January
“You can keep chatting – Dustin’s just having a meltdown,” explains A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s Adam Wiltzie as their exp... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Live Music
M83 / Porcelain Raft @ The Arches, 19 January
Like post-Fromageau M83, Porcelain Raft is effectively one man’s nom de plume, but, also like M83, Mauro Remiddi is not performing alone, with live dru... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012
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Reviews
Mull Historical Society – City Awakenings
After two albums under his own name, Colin MacIntyre has readopted his former moniker for the first time in eight years. While the intervening releases only ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Excepting its first and final tracks (a dated-sounding industrial take on Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song featuring Karen O, and a tough, icy interpretation ... Read more »| 19 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Machinedrum – SXLND EP
Travis Stewart has made a conspicuous habit of excellence in the last year. In Room(s) and Sepalcure (his project with Praveen Sharma, aka Braille), 2011 had... Read more »| 16 Jan 2012 -
Live Music
Cymbals Eat Guitars / Milagres @ ABC2, 8 January
Conjuring enthusiasm among a disappointingly thin crowd, on a Sunday night in early January, is a test for any band, and New York’s Milagres are too me... Read more »| 13 Jan 2012 -
Playlists
Roots Manuva Music Playlist: Guest Selector
Maverick MC Rodney 'Roots Manuva' Smith lifts the lid on his desert island discs Read more »| 12 Jan 2012 -
Opinion
2012: Scoring the End Times
Don't stress about whether the Mayan Prophecy will come to pass this year, think more about who might accidentally soundtrack the end of days... Read more »| 11 Jan 2012 -
Festivals
Awake On Foreign Shores: Trans Musicales 2011
In search of an alternative winter festival, our Music editor heads for Les Recontres Trans Musicales to find out how the French get down Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
All the Saints – Intro To Fractions
This second offering from Atlanta's All The Saints finds the band chin deep in psychedelic shoegaze. Like their debut, they continue to take cues from Englis... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Chris Devotion and the Expectations – Amalgamation & Capital
Encounter Amalgamation & Capital anonymously and you might presume it a greatest hits rather than a debut, its no-nonsense new-wave suggesting a lost gen... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012