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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NewsCreative Scotland announce SxSW 2014 showcase bill
More details on the Scottish artists due to appear at this year's South By Southwest (7-16 Mar) in Austin, Texas have emerged this morning. The Scottish cont... Read more »| 20 Jan 2014 -
PlaylistsListen: Cloud Sounds, our new weekly playlist
This week we introduce a new feature, Cloud Sounds – The Skinny's Music team select an hour or so of the best new music on Soundcloud, with a focu... Read more »| 17 Jan 2014 -
NewsFour Tet joins Bandcamp, shares early releases
Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, has been a busy fellow lately. This week, the London producer joined Bandcamp, putting up four early releases, also originally available via the defunct Output label Read more »| 17 Jan 2014 -
Videos
I Break Horses release David Dean Burkhart-directed video for 'You Burn'
In a clip directed by David Dean Burkhart, a filmmaker who gained a reputation for his unofficial videos for Grimes, The Rapture and others, Sweden's I Break... Read more »| 17 Jan 2014 -
VideosCom Truise – Glawio live at Check Yo' Ponytail
Seth Haley, aka Ghostly International's retro-future synth wizard Com Truise, has shared a new live video of the track Glawio, from the album Galactic Melt Read more »| 17 Jan 2014 -
ReviewsPixies – EP2
When EP1 landed in September of 2013, ostensibly Pixies' first real release in 20 years and their only without Kim Deal on board, some reviewers pounced on t... Read more »| 17 Jan 2014
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News
Four Tet makes a beat out of Michael Jackson's Thriller in 10 minutes
Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, is the latest participant in the YouTube series Beat This, which sees producers attempt to make a beat in just ten minutes, with a camera trained on their every move Read more »| 16 Jan 2014 -
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DOOM plans Operation Doomsday reissue
Metal-masked rapper DOOM has unleashed a tidal wave of awesome merchandise on the unsuspecting hip-hop world, and reissued the classic Operation Doomsday on cassette Read more »| 16 Jan 2014 -
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Thurston Moore's Twilight preview new album, announce split
Black metal supergroup Twilight, featuring Thurston Moore, detail their new album, unveil a new track, and announce that they are splitting up Read more »| 16 Jan 2014 -
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Red Bull Music Academy opens for applications
This year's Red Bull Music Academy will take place in Tokyo, and today opened for applications from aspiring musicians. The Academy will run from 12 October ... Read more »| 16 Jan 2014 -
Reviews
Cymbals – The Age of Fracture
This London art-pop quartet follow their 2011 debut Unlearn by polishing the synth-heavy post-punk of that record into something glossier, but similarly mela... Read more »| 16 Jan 2014 -
Reviews
Àsgeir – In The Silence
For a wee windswept rock, Iceland has a mighty musical heart. Its latest export, Ásgeir Trausti, looking like a cross between Daniel Brühl and th... Read more »| 16 Jan 2014 -
Videos
Killer Mike turns evangelist in 'Ghetto Gospel'
Atlanta rapper Killer Mike has dropped a belated video for one of the highlights from his 2012 album R.A.P. Music, Ghetto Gospel. Read more »| 15 Jan 2014 -
Interviews
Get Loved Up To Survive: Thee Silver Mt. Zion's Efrim Menuck Interviewed
The Western world’s recognised narrative lies in peril; for Thee Silver Mt Zion’s Efrim Menuck, only embracing “hokey” values can save it Read more »| 15 Jan 2014 -
Videos
Real Estate announce third album, share video for 'Talking Backwards'
New Jersey's Real Estate are releasing a new album in March, a follow-up to 2011's Days. The new album will be titled Atlas, and on the evidence of new single Talking Backwards, it seems the five-piece are on world-beating form Read more »| 15 Jan 2014