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 MusicRecord Store Day in Scotland
On Saturday 21 April thousands of independently owned music stores across the world will celebrate 'Record Store Day.’ Just over a dozen independent record shops in Scotland will participate. We run through some of the special events and releases planned Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen – April 2012
With some of the most generous Dirty Dozen scores dished out in recent memory, it takes a lot to displease Martin John Henry and the Permanent Skelfs Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Live Music
Feist / M. Ward @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 27 March
With nothing but an acoustic guitar and a voice of honey and dust, M. Ward saunters onstage alone. As he solemnly paces the boards, it’s easy to appre... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsThe Cornshed Sisters – Tell Tales
Sisters in the sorority rather than sibling sense, Jennie, Cath, Liz and Marie take turns to sing lead on debut album Tell Tales, and though the sparse inst... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
Maps & Atlases – Beware and Be Grateful
In just two albums Chicago’s Maps & Atlases have experienced the kind of transformation few bands ever encounter. From the epileptic math rock sq... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
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Tomat – 01-06 June
The solo debut from Italy’s Davide Tomat is a more conceptual, abstract affair than anything his other projects N.A.M.B. and Niagara have produced. S... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012
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Profisee – From All Angles
Profisee has been incredibly prolific in the years since the Scotland Yard Emcees went their separate ways, working with a literal who's who of electronic ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Interviews
Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman: "The world's on a war footing"
Jaz Coleman speaks his mind on 2012, the trouble with modern Britain and the enduring power of Killing Joke Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
OpinionHero Worship: Robin Proper-Sheppard
Malcolm Middleton explains how The God Machine and Sophia Collective frontman gave him comfort as he bubbled into his crisps Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
Interviews
First Listen: Jack White's Blunderbuss
With his first solo album under his arm, Jack White holds council with the mayor of Lambeth in a bizarre night at London County Hall Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
Willis Earl Beal – Acousmatic Sorcery
XL’s newest signing Willis Earl Beal emerged to the wider world via a video where he sings a cappella, under a bridge, wearing a vest emblazoned with... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
The Mars Volta – Noctourniquet
Restraint isn't a quality you'd expect to find in any progressive rock band, especially not The Mars Volta; it just doesn't seem to fit. The band's previo... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
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Human Don't Be Angry – Human Don't Be Angry
Working with a pseudonym borrowed from a German board game, Human Don’t Be Angry sees Malcolm Middleton in an appropriately playful mood. Opener The M... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
The Cathode Ray – The Cathode Ray
While the particles in a cathode ray travel at lightning speed, Edinburgh’s The Cathode Ray are somewhat slower paced. A single in 2006, a second in ... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012 -
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Grand Duchy – Let the People Speak
Every marriage has its ups and downs; Let the People Speak is mostly the latter. Husband and wife Frank Black and Violet Clark follow up Grand Duchy’s ... Read more »| 02 Apr 2012