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Live MusicSome Songs Side-By-Side Album Launch @ Stereo, 29 November
Since Some Songs Side-By-Side is the debut release from Stereo’s fledgling record label, the bar’s basement space seems the natural place to la... Read more »| 07 Dec 2012 -
PlaylistsUnder the Influence: The Twilight Sad
Ahead of their landmark gig at the Barras this month, James Graham and Andy MacFarlane revisit the albums that inspired them to form a band in the first place Read more »| 07 Dec 2012 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen – December 2012
Former Ride vocalist and guitarist Mark Gardener sets about December’s singles along with the issue of overblown chorus syndrome and the repetitious strains of Manc rock Read more »| 07 Dec 2012 -
Reviews
A Band Called Quinn – Red Light Means Go
A Band Called Quinn’s third album was ready for release three years ago, but other projects delayed its arrival till now. With such a lengthy build-u... Read more »| 07 Dec 2012 -
Live Music
Converge / Touché Amoré / A Storm of Light / The Secret @ Classic Grand, 28 November
Italy's The Secret waste no time in blowing the doors open tonight.Their chaotic, nihilistic blend of hardcore, grind and black metal is simply unforgiving;... Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
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Rob Zombie / Marilyn Manson @ SECC, 28 November
The spooky kids adore Marilyn Manson – they mouth the words to every song as the God of Fuck goes through several costume changes and stage sets. Dis... Read more »| 06 Dec 2012
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Live MusicShearwater @ Broadcast, 27 November
With Animal Joy ranking amongst their best work, Shearwater feel like one of 2012’s great overlookeds, their seventh album receiving only a fraction ... Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
Live Music
Menomena / Empty Pools @ Nice N' Sleazy, 23 November
With their slightly off-kilter approach to indie rock songwriting, Bristol's Empty Pools are right at home on tonight's bill. With a sound that's less predi... Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
OpinionThe Albums of 2012 (#1): Death Grips – The Money Store (Epic)
Amid a howling storm of hypertext hype, copyright controversy and multimedia performance art excess, Death Grips emerged into the mainstream to produce The Skinny's Album of the Year - The Money Store Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2012 (#2): Django Django – Django Django (Because Music)
From relative obscurity to lauded Mercury Prize nominees – via the unconventional route of FIFA International Soccer – Dave Maclean of Django Django looks back on his band’s whirlwind year Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2012 (#3): Grimes – Visions (4AD)
The Skinny catches up with our favourite sibylline songstress to hear about her year and get the inside track on the future of music Read more »| 06 Dec 2012 -
Reviews
Roc Marciano – Reloaded
Roc Marciano's been gaining high praise for Reloaded, the follow-up to 2010's acclaimed Marcberg. There's something about it which just doesn't sit right. Pe... Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2012 (#4): Errors – Have Some Faith In Magic (Rock Action)
They asked us for a little faith and in return delivered a sermon of divine sonic alchemy. Errors man Steev Livingstone pulls back the curtain on their finest creation yet Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2012 (#5): Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory (Wichita)
With their second album in a year Cleveland's Cloud Nothings pulled off a convincing change of identity. Dylan Baldi explains why returning to the drawing board has become his favourite pastime Read more »| 05 Dec 2012 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2012 (#6): El-P – Cancer4Cure (Fat Possum)
Number seven in our top ten albums of the year, El-P talks to us about his stunning return to hip-hop, Cancer 4 Cure Read more »| 05 Dec 2012