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.
-
InterviewsWHITE rise from Kassidy and The Low Miffs' ashes
WHITE are a far more colourful band than the moniker might suggest. With just a couple of singles under their belt and former members of Kassidy and The Low Miffs in their number, just how have the Glasgow five-piece gelled? Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
The Spills – Collecting Dust
Caught somewhere between a fondness for Pavement and their apparent desire to be Mclusky, this Wakefield quartet find their heads tilted towards the nonchala... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Live MusicMac DeMarco @ O2 ABC Glasgow, 7 September
Glasgow may have just killed Mac DeMarco. The rambunctious singer has launched himself above the eager masses pressed against the barrier of the O2 ABC stage... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
ReviewsSealings – I'm A Bastard
Moody, minimalist, mal-illuminated… well yes, we may have been travelled this way before. Yet however derivative such disenfranchised narratives can a... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum
Following on from 2013's sprawling Dakhmandal, Finland's Dark Buddha Rising return with a new lineup for fifth LP Inversum. It's an album of two halves; comp... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Live Music
The Garden Party 2015: The Review
With Dutch Uncles, LoneLady and many more in tow, Leeds Garden Party is an end-of-summer excursion, one wistful look back before the autumn arrives. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015
-
Live MusicNatalie Prass @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 2 September
There’s a Venn diagram somewhere that overlaps folk-rock with that tedious signifier of overly-tasteful coffee-tableism known as ‘AOR’. On ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Videos
Lost Map Sessions: The Pictish Trail covers Beck
Fife via Eigg label Lost Map branched out with the first in its Howlin' Fringe series this past August. Presenting the first in a four-part series of sessions from the festival, The Pictish Trail introduces his latest drunken initiative Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
Having checked that yes, this is an album – and not a cake made by hyper-active children with every conceivable ingredient thrown somewhere in the gene... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
Tom Araya on Repentless, fame, and Slayer's legacy
Frontman Tom Araya discusses the losses of Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo, the breakdown of their relationship with Rick Rubin, and his uncomfortable relationship with their legacy Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
C Duncan Interviewed: Bedroom to Box Office
We chat with Glaswegian virtuoso C Duncan about turning a one-man, one-year labour of love into an arresting, unmissable live act Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Glen Hansard – Didn't He Ramble
Didn’t He Ramble is Glen Hansard’s second solo release, but far from his second outing. He’s recorded with The Frames and The Swell Season ... Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Nicolas Godin – Contrepont
Quite mad and all the better for it, the solo debut from the Air man is a dizzying journey down the rabbit hole of his crazed imagination. Contrepont plays w... Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Blacklisters – Adult
Less a band, more of a bludgeon. Blacklisters’ songs crunch and lacerate like solid wooden clubs, mutilated with rusted nails. Opener Shirts swiftly ac... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
Mac DeMarco invites the fans round: "I don't know what I was thinking"
About to embark upon his biggest UK dates yet in support of new mini-LP Another One, we speak to indie oddball Mac DeMarco about finding new ways to connect with fans and giving a little something back to the community Read more »| 04 Sep 2015