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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ReviewsWoods – Sun and Shade
Woods have a very suitable name. From the head-nodding, foot-tapping, retro-sounding first chords of Sun and Shade, you realise you're spending time with a r... Read more »| 03 Jun 2011 -
ReviewsSamiyam – Sam Baker's Album
The second LP from LA-based instrumental hip-hop producer Samiyam thankfully evinces a far greater breadth of imagination than its title suggests. Sam Baker&... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Interviews
Sons and Daughters: “It’s the happy clappy bands that are the most fucked up"
With the help of Optimo's JD Twitch, Sons and Daughters explain why they've retreated to their dark corner Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Reviews
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
We’re not exactly short of 80s revivalist electro-pop at the moment, so the prospect of another outfit who wear their debt to Depeche Mode on their sle... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
ReviewsWild Moccasins – Skin Collision Past
Skin Collision Past combines new material with Wild Moccasins’ previously released Microscopic Metronomes EP (2009). Across the whole, the Texan quinte... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Reviews
Seasick Steve – You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
While much of Seasick Steve’s popularity may have come from his good-natured persona and impressive collection of jury-rigged instruments, it can&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011
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Festivals
Festivals 2011: OFF, Poland
So, why pitch your tent at just one amazing August music festival in the Eastern part of Europe (see last month's piece on Sziget, Budapest) when you can hit... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
ReviewsSouthern Tenant Folk Union – Pencaitland
Folk music’s greatest asset is how well it translates between regions, allowing constant cross-pollination of sounds. Because of this, this Scottish se... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Reviews
Atari Teenage Riot – Is This Hyperreal?
In the entire history of alternative music has there ever been anyone with as retarded a sense of irony as Alec Empire? It's a question you'll find yourself ... Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
Reviews
Milk Maid – Yucca
Having broken away from band duties with latter day grungers Nine Black Alps, Yucca represents both bassist Martin Cohen’s new band Milk Maid’s d... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
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Puzzle Muteson – En Garde
There are positive ways to be musically ground-breaking; by pushing things further than anyone previously dared, for example, or innovating something brand s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Live Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Battles @ Glasgow Arches, 7 June
There's precious few bands whose live prowess has managed not only to knock us for six, but to expand our comprehension of what kind of sound a group of huma... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
ReviewsMy Morning Jacket – Circuital
On listening to My Morning Jacket’s sixth studio release, it becomes immediately apparent just how significant the shift has been from the country-infl... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Reviews
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
For a band prone to misinterpreting the spirit of rock and roll (examples abound online – being jerks isn’t the same as being rock stars, guys), ... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Reviews
The Coathangers – Larceny & Old Lace
Taking its scuzz from late 60s proto-punk and the snarl from early 90s riot grrrls, The Coathangers offer a record of near-hits and some legendary misses. Le... Read more »| 31 May 2011