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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ReviewsA Week in Records: Destroyer, Kagoule, Radkey
From Dan Bejar's exhilarating E Street homage to the snarling return of Sheffield techno anarchists The Black Dog, we run down five releases out today Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
Live MusicJapan Marvelous Drummers @ George Square Theatre, 18 August
"How is a drum solo like a sneeze?" an old joke goes. "You can tell when it's coming, but you can't do anything about it." And with Japan Marvelous Drummer... Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
Interviews
Altered Beasts: Vessels Interviewed
As Vessels take latest album Dilate to the festival circuit, the compelling Leeds five-piece swap guitars for synths. They tell The Skinny why their switch to electronica should come as no surprise. Read more »| 21 Aug 2015 -
Live MusicArthur Russell's Instrumentals @ Liverpool Kazimier, 11 August
If you’ve spent the past few years regularly attending gigs or clubs in Liverpool then chances are you would have heard the different sides of Arthur R... Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
News
Blanck Mass joins Pleasance Sessions weekender
Blanck Mass will take the stage on a bill featuring RM Hubbert, Outblinker and BDY_PRTS for our night at this year’s Pleasance Sessions weekender in Edinburgh. Read more »| 20 Aug 2015 -
FestivalsSensoria launches its 2015 Programme
Sheffield music and film festival Sensoria returns for 2015, with Tim Burgess’s Tim Peaks Diner. Read more »| 20 Aug 2015
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News
Track Premiere: Django Django vs The Phantom Band – 'Shake and Tremble'
The Phantom Band premiere their twist on Django Django's 'Shake and Tremble', from their latest album Born Under Saturn Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
Lydia Kavina talks theremins and Jura Unbound
Joining author Sean Michaels at The Skinny's Unbound night will be Lydia Kavina, the world's leading thereminist, grand-niece and protegé of its master inventor. We speak to her about Léon Termen's curious legacy Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Playlists
Pieces of a Man: A Gil Scott-Heron primer
Crunching four decades and 13 albums down into a greatest hits? We'd never dare. These are just a few stepping stones along the great poet's path Read more »| 19 Aug 2015 -
Live Music
The Black Sorrows @ The Spiegeltent, Edinburgh, 12 August
With one hot solo per song, a tight band sound, the occasional bat-out-of-heck howl, and the kind of drumming you don't notice (even, unfortunately, during a... Read more »| 14 Aug 2015 -
Music Videos
Yorkston Thorne Khan – The Blues You Sang: Anatomy of a Song
Filmed as part of Summerhall's Nothing Ever Happens Here gig series, we present 'Anatomy of a Song'. Episode one focuses on the burgeoning colla... Read more »| 14 Aug 2015 -
News
Northwest Music News – 14 Aug: Kepla, Doctrines + more
Our latest fortnightly missive from the Northwest includes music from No Pain In Pop Records, Alcopop! and returning members of We Came Out Like Tigers. Read more »| 14 Aug 2015 -
Reviews
Dr. Dre – Compton
“My life’s like a soundtrack I wrote to the beat,” Andre Young rapped way back on Still D.R.E., lead single off 1999’s sextuple-plati... Read more »| 13 Aug 2015 -
Reviews
Laura Cannell – Beneath Swooping Talons
Laura Cannell's (bloody) chamber music is the kind of artistry that pays back the courageous listener in spades. Her album notes speak of "pure music without... Read more »| 13 Aug 2015 -
Live Music
Sun Kil Moon @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 10 August
Playing in support of his new Universal Themes LP, Mark Kozelek brings his band to Edinburgh for a mammoth show as part of Summerhall’s increasingly impressive body of events. Read more »| 12 Aug 2015