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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ReviewsPrurient – Frozen Niagara Falls
As with the rest of Prurient’s unforgiving discography, Frozen Niagara Falls is an assault on the senses with barely a moment of respite, however in wh... Read more »| 05 May 2015 -
ReviewsThe Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home
A shimmering influx of Scandinavian country-influenced singers – that’s First Aid Kit and the like – have graced the international sta... Read more »| 03 May 2015 -
FestivalsFestival Watch – May 2015
It’s May! May the force to stand up most of the day watching at least 11 bands and traversing an equivalent number of miles be with you. Yes, it’s time for all of the all-dayers Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
Interviews
Flesh and Bone: Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power returns as Blanck Mass
The bucolic daydream of Blanck Mass’ eponymous debut has slipped into an exhilarating kind of nightmare with follow-up Dumb Flesh. Benjamin John Power takes time out to talk about isolation, contradiction and his new life in Bonnie Scotland. Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
ReviewsPrefuse 73 – Rivington Não Rio
Four years since Scott Herren’s last release under any of his multiple guises, and it appears he has enjoyed his thinking time. Returning to the very e... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
God Damn – Vultures
Even if you’re not convinced of Wolverhampton-based hard rock duo God Damn’s outstanding technical ability by the first slew on torrential drum f... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015
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Reviews
Faith No More – Sol Invictus
Hell-bent on reaching higher than before (rather than pissing on their life’s work), trust these perennial non-conformists to creep back in to the fray... Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Books
Last Orders: John Doran on Jolly Lad
One of the finest music critics of the past 20 years, some of John Doran's most scathing reviews would come to be about himself, in a series of columns that led to his debut book, Jolly Lad Read more »| 30 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Joanna Gruesome – Peanut Butter
Cardiff’s finest mess returns with another twenty-one minutes of explosive noisepop. Not much to show for two years’ work, you might think, but i... Read more »| 29 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Du Blonde – Welcome Back To Milk
Beth Jeans Houghton's transformation from screwy troubadour to her new alter-ago is surely standard issue music career car crash, right? Think again: Du Blon... Read more »| 29 Apr 2015 -
InterviewsUnder the Influence: Thurston Moore
From the Blitzkrieg Bop of 70s New York to hardcore fury in the Hollywood hills, Sonic Youth's founder humbly presents “the five fucking greatest records in the world!” Read more »| 29 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh
If 2012’s White Math EP wrong-footed those tuned into Benjamin John Power's evolving brand of cerebral electronica, they might want to check their... Read more »| 29 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
The Life We Know: Django Django's Dave Maclean interviewed
Space-age second album Born Under Saturn sees Edinburgh-formed four-piece Django Django on riotous, mystical form. Dave Maclean talks planets, poltergeists and percussion Read more »| 29 Apr 2015 -
Festivals
Blanck Mass to headline The Skinny stage at Electric Fields
To kick off our 10th birthday celebrations, we’re taking the reins at one of the stages at this summer’s Electric Fields festival, with electroni... Read more »| 28 Apr 2015 -
Videos
SxSW 2015: Obey City on Merlot Sounds and working with Kelela
We catch up with Obey City in Austin between his shows at South by Southwest 2015. Brooklyn based Obey City, also known as Sam Obey, is a co-founder of Astr... Read more »| 28 Apr 2015