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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InterviewsIntroducing CHVRCHES: "We’re very aware of what we have to do"
As the hype machine attempts to propel them skywards, CHVRCHES explain why their feet remain clamped firmly to the ground Read more »| 11 Sep 2012 -
OpinionSun Goes Down: Five Festivals That Made Our Summer
At times it felt like we were storm chasing, but we wouldn't change a damn thing about festival season 2012. Tasteless holographic Tupac and all. Here's five of our highlights... Read more »| 11 Sep 2012 -
Playlists
The Hot Club Nice n Sleazy Music Playlist: Guest Selector
As Nice'n'Sleazy's garage rock social turns 5, DJs Nobodaddy and Rafla present the soundtrack. "We pictured a dimly lit Lynchian drinking den with dirgy grimy body music playing," says Nobodaddy. "Five years later and we're still ruining people's lives.." Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
InterviewsBattery Face: Playing By Their Own Rules
Originally hailing from the northeast, Battery Face don't take themselves too seriously – instead they just want to play their own kind of "loud party rock" and make girls dance. But there's still a hard edge to this resolutely self-sufficient power trio Read more »| 10 Sep 2012 -
Festivals
In Pictures: Music Language Festival 2012
Music Language Festival 2012 A glimpse of the action from the Music Language Festival 2012 in Glasgow, 1 & 2 September. Photography by Neil Jarvie Read more »| 07 Sep 2012 -
InterviewsAmanda Palmer: Getting A Kickstart
With the help of her enthusiastic fanbase, Amanda Palmer has already made a splash this year. Ahead of the release of her new album, Theatre Is Evil, she spoke to The Skinny about crowd-funding, house parties and her new-found invincibility Read more »| 06 Sep 2012
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Festivals
Festival Column: Trans Musicales
Les Rencontres Trans Musicales – 'meeting through music', nicely literal) is the winter festival which has garnered the useful reputation for being the... Read more »| 06 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
Lund Quartet – Lund Quartet
Over the years, Bristol has produced plenty of acts that forge links between jazz, hip-hop, dub, and drum 'n’ bass, but the most successful artists &nd... Read more »| 06 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
Efterklang – Piramida
Efterklang’s intrepid ambition is perhaps their defining characteristic, as evidenced by fourth album Piramida’s titular birthplace: an aban... Read more »| 06 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
Mala – Mala in Cuba
Mala in Cuba finds the dubstep demi-god attempting to redefine his praxis through collaboration with a host of top-level Cuban musicians. Easing the lis... Read more »| 05 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
Sic Alps – Sic Alps
For their first LP on Drag City, San Francisco’s Sic Alps manage to shoehorn woozy violins, frazzled, treble-heavy guitars, and bursts of atonal feedba... Read more »| 05 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
TOY – TOY
Poor TOY. For all their reviews so far, not one of them ends without a reference to the bands they so clearly spent their youth listening to. My Bloody V... Read more »| 05 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
Keser – Audeamus
Audeamus is Keser's third album, and this time round they have produced the work themselves. The result is a slightly more stripped-back sound than on 2009's... Read more »| 05 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
Carlos Cipa – The Monarch and the Viceroy
Fans of Yann Tiersen’s sparse, melancholy piano compositions should find Carlos Cipa’s debut engrossing: a collection of solo pieces by the 22 ye... Read more »| 05 Sep 2012 -
Reviews
The xx – Coexist
The xx’s debut album was a thrilling affair: dark, playful and sparse. Since we last heard from them, they’ve shed a member and, it would seem, s... Read more »| 05 Sep 2012