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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Live MusicLive Music Highlights – February 2013
Homegrown independent(ish) rock commandeers the gig calendar as CHVRCHES, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Django Django, Gummy Stumps, PAWS and Divorce show the big boys how it's done Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
ReviewsTeam Ghost – Rituals
Following up their two towering EPs in 2010, Team Ghost's much-anticipated full-length debut benefits from the band's expansion – backed by a new ... Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
PlaylistsTrack-by-track: Frightened Rabbit's Pedestrian Verse
Returning to the fray this month with their "darkest record yet", frontman Scott Hutchison guides us through Frightened Rabbit's eagerly anticipated fourth LP Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
ReviewsMegachurch – Megachurch 2: Judgment Day
There's plenty of bands out there adept at tight, fast-paced rock, but this Cleveland trio have a couple of notable quirks to separate them out from the cr... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
NewsExclusive (cough!): February issue preview
The February issue of The Skinny has gone to press, not sure our graphic designer was totally keen on the draft version we put together for the Frightened Rabbit feature... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
Live Music
Daughter @ Òran Mór, 21 January
London three-piece Daughter have been the subject of much attention this past year, finally revealing they had signed to 4AD late last year. Tonight they pl... Read more »| 24 Jan 2013
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Reviews
Attica Rage – 88MPH
Attica Rage's third LP since their inception in 2003 couldn't open in a less predictable way for the Ayrshire rawkers. It's only after a pastoral, Led Zepp... Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
The Bronx – The Bronx IV
L.A. punks The Bronx lay their mariachi band alter-ego to one side after a two record stint, returning to a more traditional rock-based sound on their four... Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Eels – Wonderful, Glorious
In the eyes of die-hards who inhale each passing release, it doesn't matter a great deal what a new Eels album sounds like; Mark E. Everett’s place in... Read more »| 23 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Pissed Jeans – Honeys
Their fourth album proper, their third for Sub Pop, sees Pissed Jeans slowing the tempo in places, delving even deeper into the sludgy, paranoid punk rock th... Read more »| 23 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Esben and the Witch – Wash the Sins Not Only the Face
The title to track four of Esben and the Witch's second album – Shimmering – says it all, really. This is a band that, from the first listen... Read more »| 22 Jan 2013 -
Interviews
Jeff Mills – From Detroit to the Future
Jeff Mills is one of the seminal originators of techno music. He comes to Glasgow next month to premiere his new soundtrack for Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon. He tells us about growing up in Detroit, and splitting his time between Chicago and Paris Read more »| 22 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
K-X-P – II
Recorded between Berlin and their native Helsinki, K-X-P's sophomore record takes the heavily krautock-influenced template of their debut, and gives it a thr... Read more »| 22 Jan 2013 -
Live Music
Hector Bizerk / Strange Empire / Woven Tents @ Nice 'N' Sleazy, 12 January
Tonight opens with the bluesy and operatic rock stylings of Strange Empire. They've brought their fans. Each chrous is greeted with a raucous, booze-enhanced... Read more »| 21 Jan 2013 -
Live Music
Chris Devotion and The Expectations / Poor Things / Black International / Fat Goth @ King Tut's, 11 January
Six quid wouldn't buy you two drinks in most venues. Yet that’s all it costs for entry to a gig with no less than four stellar bands on the bill. But... Read more »| 21 Jan 2013