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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ReviewsDJ Yoda – Chop Suey
DJ Yoda is arguably the single most important DJ to oversee the popularisation of turntablism as an art-form. Q-Bert may put on a more impressive technical d... Read more »| 22 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsIngen – Lusher EP
Edinburgh's Ingen has developed an outstanding live reputation with his live sets of dark electro, thundering breakbeat and pitch-black future bass. With rel... Read more »| 19 Oct 2012 -
Festivals
CMJ 2012: Detour Scotland's Ally McCrae surveys the New York Music Marathon
Greetings from the midst of New York’s yearly marathon of new music, (cue American broadcaster voice) Ally McCrae reporting from CMJ 2012. This festiva... Read more »| 18 Oct 2012 -
Reviews
James Iha – Look to the Sky
James Iha's first solo album (1998's winsome Let It Come Down) served as a pleasant-enough, if underwhelming, soft rock missive from one of the alternative... Read more »| 17 Oct 2012 -
Live MusicDirty Projectors @ The Arches, 15 October
On most billings, Dirty Projectors’ fellow Brooklynites Callers would comfortably be the most inventive and striking outfit. Sara Lucas’ richly ... Read more »| 17 Oct 2012 -
Live Music
In Pictures: WHY? at SWG3, 12 October
WHY? at SWG3, Glasgow, 12 October Indie-rap raconteur Yoni Wolf and co make their return to Glasgow after a three year absence, giving fans an early taste o... Read more »| 16 Oct 2012
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Live Music
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead / Maybeshewill @ The Liquid Room, 13 October
Walking in to Leicester post-rockers Maybeshewill is a thunderous experience. Commanding attention with their skull-shaking bass sound, muscular riffage and ... Read more »| 16 Oct 2012 -
Live Music
Liars / The Haxan Cloak @ SWG3, 11 October
The Haxan Cloak is crouched almost out of sight with a hood obscuring his face, building dense, textured bass loops into funereal, transcendental techno; lik... Read more »| 16 Oct 2012 -
Opinion
On the Road: The Hazey Janes take to Europe with Wilco
Dundee band The Hazey Janes report back on their dream tour in support of Wilco in Europe Read more »| 15 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsLapalux – Some Other Time EP
One of Brainfeeder's UK signings, Essex-born Lapalux has released on Pictures Music, and produced a self-released EP in 2011. He has also completed high-prof... Read more »| 15 Oct 2012 -
Live Music
Gallows / Feed the Rhino @ King Tut's, 9 October
Feed the Rhino evidently have some fans gathered here at King Tut's tonight; as the stage lights dim, the band are greeted with a fair amount of fervency w... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
Live Music
Balam Acab / Konx-Om-Pax @ CCA, 8 October
In a sprawling electronic set which defies easy categorization, Konx-Om-Pax draws heavily on debut Regional Surrealism, but also delves into his back ca... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Eastern Promise Festival 2012 @ Platform, Saturday 6 October
Eastern Promise Festival 2012 All the action from Platform's family friendly Eastern Promise Festival 2012, featuring sets from Plank!, Richard Youngs, The ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Eastern Promise Festival 2012 @ Platform, Friday, 5 October
Eastern Promise Festival 2012 Returning for a third year, the first night of Platform's 2012 edition of the eclectic Eastern Promise Festival offered sets b... Read more »| 12 Oct 2012 -
Live Music
Palma Violets / Childhood @ Electric Circus, 8 October
There’s a certain look that some bands have, a look of easy confidence from the moment they stride onto the stage. Childhood have that look... Read more »| 11 Oct 2012