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 MusicPerfume Genius @ The Caves, Edinburgh, 23 November
When Perfume Genius – the stage name of Seattle-based solo artist Mike Hadreas – unclips his microphone from its stand, you know he mea... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Live MusicLittle Dragon / Nao @ O2ABC, Glasgow, 23 November
Before Little Dragon’s set has even commenced, they’re already demonstrating telepathic awareness of what their fans are in the mood for. Fitting... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Live MusicStanley Odd / Tickle & Asthmatic Astronaut @ The Liquid Room, Edinburgh, 21 November
The wonderfully named Tickle & Asthmatic Astronaut provide strong support tonight. The latter is a founder of the Black Lantern Music collective that has... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
InterviewsBlack Celebration: The Wytches' Kristian Bell interviewed
To listen to The Wytches for the first time is to be transported – picture a vampiric, amphetamine-fuelled 1950s rock and roller playing surf guitar in a graveyard and you’re nearly there. Frontman Kristian Bell says it's no happy accident Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Reviews
Villalog – Space Trash
Even if titles like Orange Sunshine and Wall of Echoes signpost the odd slip into motorik-bound pastiche, Austrian trio Villalog are more discerning psych re... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Live MusicBird @ Eagle Inn, Salford, 21 November
Oh so cruelly, just as it starts, it ends. After an extended prologue that saw them cycle through lineups, Bird's opening chapter exceeded expectations by so... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014
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Videos
In session: Shield Patterns – 'WeYouMe'
In this first track taken from an exclusive live session filmed earlier this month, electronic duo Shield Patterns perform 'WeYouMe' from their debut album C... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
News
Wu-Tang Clan stream new LP A Better Tomorrow ahead of release
Ahead of its full release next Monday (1 Dec), Warner Music Germany are currently streaming A Better Tomorrow, Wu-Tang Clan's first studio LP in seven years.... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – December 2014
Whether you’re pro-yuletide or a sulky wee scrooge, December’s always a bit of a write-off. For the Crimbophiles, it’s the only time of yea... Read more »| 28 Nov 2014 -
Live Music
Immix with John McGrath and Lucy Pankhurst @ Static, Liverpool, 19 November
In the concluding session of Immix’s highly commended collaboration series, composers John McGrath and Lucy Pankhurst provide a suitably engaging suite... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014 -
Live Music
Tim Hecker @ Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, 19 November
So when exactly did ‘ambient’ become conflated with ‘chillout’? Funny how such lazy approximation can be such a waste of effort: on t... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014 -
News
Mogwai, The Phantom Band, Faust members set for 'krautrock' show in Glasgow
Members of The Phantom Band and Mogwai are set to team up with the founding member of German experimental rockers Faust for a one-off show in Glasgow to ackn... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014 -
Reviews
Lotus Thief – Rervm
An epic metal opus, based on ancient Roman philosophical verse – Spinal Tap levels of hubris and folly, right? Well, no, as it turns out. Rervm is rath... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014 -
Live Music
Ought @ Sound Control, Manchester, 18 November
Up-and-coming local psychedelics Kult Country are more introverted tonight than their kookily spelt moniker would suggest. With almost all their members hidd... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014 -
Reviews
Wild Billy Childish & CTMF – Acorn Man
“Always different, always the same,” as John Peel famously described his perennial faves The Fall, but only the latter is required to sum up Bill... Read more »| 27 Nov 2014