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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PlaylistsPieces 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 MusicThe 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 VideosYorkston 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 -
NewsNorthwest 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
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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 -
Live Music
The Tubes @The Art School, Glasgow, 9 August
The first sign that something isn't quite right tonight is evidenced by a giant TV screen overhead which screens a continous slideshow of images from The Tub... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Reviews
Beach House – Depression Cherry
You have to admire a band that sees dreaming as a matter of principle. Beach House’s fifth album shows the Baltimore duo turning back the clock with a ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Reviews
Hills – Frid
These Gothenburg psych-rockers trudge, sleepy-eyed, out of the mist with their third album, before locking down and wailing in a manner both grimly ... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Interviews
Fear of a Wack Planet: Ratking interviewed
As Ratking circle back for another assault on the UK, founding MC Patrick 'Wiki' Morales lays out the full scale of the burgeoning Harlem rap crew's ambition Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Live Music
Outblinker / Blood of the Bull @ The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, 8 August
In various guises (Aggi Doom; Holy Motors), there’s always been an element of the clandestine to Hilary Van Scoy; solo, under her Blood of the Bull mon... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
ReviewsKelpe – The Curved Line
Such are the dynamics behind erudite, free-flowing electronica that with every addition we become even less certain of what year we’re in. Not that Kel... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Reviews
Autobahn – Dissemble
The opening track to Autobahn’s debut album is an intriguing one. The nascent Missing In Action is formed of a draughty, metallic clanging which gradua... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Live Music
Luna @ Manchester Gorilla, 3 August
"You all been across the road to The Ritz to check out Bad Religion? No? Not one of you?" Dean Wareham offers a rueful shake of the head. There was a time, y... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015