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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ReviewsDark Buddha Rising – Inversum
Following on from 2013's sprawling Dakhmandal, Finland's Dark Buddha Rising return with a new lineup for fifth LP Inversum. It's an album of two halves; comp... Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Live MusicThe Garden Party 2015: The Review
With Dutch Uncles, LoneLady and many more in tow, Leeds Garden Party is an end-of-summer excursion, one wistful look back before the autumn arrives. Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Live Music
Natalie Prass @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 2 September
There’s a Venn diagram somewhere that overlaps folk-rock with that tedious signifier of overly-tasteful coffee-tableism known as ‘AOR’. On ... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
VideosLost Map Sessions: The Pictish Trail covers Beck
Fife via Eigg label Lost Map branched out with the first in its Howlin' Fringe series this past August. Presenting the first in a four-part series of sessions from the festival, The Pictish Trail introduces his latest drunken initiative Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie
Having checked that yes, this is an album – and not a cake made by hyper-active children with every conceivable ingredient thrown somewhere in the gene... Read more »| 08 Sep 2015 -
InterviewsTom Araya on Repentless, fame, and Slayer's legacy
Frontman Tom Araya discusses the losses of Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo, the breakdown of their relationship with Rick Rubin, and his uncomfortable relationship with their legacy Read more »| 07 Sep 2015
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Interviews
C Duncan Interviewed: Bedroom to Box Office
We chat with Glaswegian virtuoso C Duncan about turning a one-man, one-year labour of love into an arresting, unmissable live act Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Glen Hansard – Didn't He Ramble
Didn’t He Ramble is Glen Hansard’s second solo release, but far from his second outing. He’s recorded with The Frames and The Swell Season ... Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Nicolas Godin – Contrepont
Quite mad and all the better for it, the solo debut from the Air man is a dizzying journey down the rabbit hole of his crazed imagination. Contrepont plays w... Read more »| 07 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Blacklisters – Adult
Less a band, more of a bludgeon. Blacklisters’ songs crunch and lacerate like solid wooden clubs, mutilated with rusted nails. Opener Shirts swiftly ac... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
Interviews
Mac DeMarco invites the fans round: "I don't know what I was thinking"
About to embark upon his biggest UK dates yet in support of new mini-LP Another One, we speak to indie oddball Mac DeMarco about finding new ways to connect with fans and giving a little something back to the community Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
Playlists
CARBS premiere Joyous Material Failure
Take a first listen to Joyous Material Failure from CARBS, the hip-hop inspired new project from Jonnie Common and Conquering Animal Sound's Jamie Scott, annotated here by the duo themselves Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Shannon and the Clams – Gone by the Dawn
If breaking up is so very hard to do, then Gone by the Dawn finds early garage rock revivalists Shannon and the Clams gathered around the jukebox, drowning t... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
Reviews
Slim Twig – Thank You For Stickin' With Twig
Slim Twig’s first new material since signing to DFA is a cheeky middle finger to the popular canon. Literally: after he’s done chastising Beatles... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015 -
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Carbs – Joyous Material Failure
Newly formed collaboration Carbs sees Jonnie (Common) and James (Conquering Animal Sound) come together to celebrate the daily disappointments of modern life... Read more »| 04 Sep 2015