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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InterviewsFlesh and Bone: Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power returns as Blanck Mass
The bucolic daydream of Blanck Mass’ eponymous debut has slipped into an exhilarating kind of nightmare with follow-up Dumb Flesh. Benjamin John Power takes time out to talk about isolation, contradiction and his new life in Bonnie Scotland. Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
Reviews
Prefuse 73 – Rivington Não Rio
Four years since Scott Herren’s last release under any of his multiple guises, and it appears he has enjoyed his thinking time. Returning to the very e... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
ReviewsGod Damn – Vultures
Even if you’re not convinced of Wolverhampton-based hard rock duo God Damn’s outstanding technical ability by the first slew on torrential drum f... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
ReviewsFaith No More – Sol Invictus
Hell-bent on reaching higher than before (rather than pissing on their life’s work), trust these perennial non-conformists to creep back in to the fray... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
BooksLast Orders: John Doran on Jolly Lad
One of the finest music critics of the past 20 years, some of John Doran's most scathing reviews would come to be about himself, in a series of columns that led to his debut book, Jolly Lad Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter
Cardiff’s finest mess returns with another twenty-one minutes of explosive noisepop. Not much to show for two years’ work, you might think, but i... Read more »| 29 Apr 2015
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Reviews
Du Blonde – Welcome Back To Milk
Beth Jeans Houghton's transformation from screwy troubadour to her new alter-ago is surely standard issue music career car crash, right? Think again: Du Blon... Read more »| 29 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
Under the Influence: Thurston Moore
From the Blitzkrieg Bop of 70s New York to hardcore fury in the Hollywood hills, Sonic Youth's founder humbly presents “the five fucking greatest records in the world!” Read more »| 29 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh
If 2012’s White Math EP wrong-footed those tuned into Benjamin John Power's evolving brand of cerebral electronica, they might want to check their... Read more »| 29 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
The Life We Know: Django Django's Dave Maclean interviewed
Space-age second album Born Under Saturn sees Edinburgh-formed four-piece Django Django on riotous, mystical form. Dave Maclean talks planets, poltergeists and percussion Read more »| 29 Apr 2015 -
Festivals
Blanck Mass to headline The Skinny stage at Electric Fields
To kick off our 10th birthday celebrations, we’re taking the reins at one of the stages at this summer’s Electric Fields festival, with electroni... Read more »| 28 Apr 2015 -
Videos
SxSW 2015: Obey City on Merlot Sounds and working with Kelela
We catch up with Obey City in Austin between his shows at South by Southwest 2015. Brooklyn based Obey City, also known as Sam Obey, is a co-founder of Astr... Read more »| 28 Apr 2015 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – May 2015
Start this summer with a flashback to the space-race in Glasgow, as Public Service Broadcasting bring their special blend of aural collage to the O2 ABC... Read more »| 28 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Tyondai Braxton – HIVE1
It’s no secret that former Battles member Tyondai Braxton is one of the most talented musicians around today, but as displayed on the bl... Read more »| 28 Apr 2015 -
Live Music
Screaming Females @ Broadcast, Glasgow, 22 April
Marissa Paternoster is a force of nature. An uncontrollable bundle of energy and fire, squalling and hollering with gusto. She riffs like Josh Homme, solos l... Read more »| 26 Apr 2015