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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ReviewsEnter Shikari – The Mindsweep
Once upon a time, a successful fusion of rock with ‘dance music’ was the great unattainable dream of modern pop, a quest which largely resulted i... Read more »| 06 Jan 2015 -
Live MusicWe Were Promised Jetpacks / Fatherson @ QMU, 13 December
The fizzy atmosphere in QM Union cannonballs as soon as Fatherson get stuck in – immediately satiating a crowd peckish for decibels and kickdrums.... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
ReviewsSouthern Tenant Folk Union – The Chuck Norris Project
Concept albums tend to divide opinion. The best reveal a loose theme that binds songs, but a rigid template can as easily suffocate creativity as inspire it.... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Reviews
Jo Bartlett – 9 x 7
It's difficult now to imagine just how marginalised the UK alt-folk scene was at the turn of the century. Plaid shirts, boutique festivals and Laura Marling ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Reviews
Flug 8 – Trans Atlantik
“Krautey-housey-techno” is how producer and DJ Daniel Herrmann (here in his on-off Flug 8 guise) describes his uncompromising, minimal beats. Now... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
ReviewsTanya Tagaq – Animism
It wrong-foots from the off and then, once you're fully disoriented, abandons you to your own devices. Tanya Tagaq's third album hits UK shelves fresh from e... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015
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Reviews
Dan Mangan + Blacksmith – Club Meds
For someone whose award-winning solo efforts were already full of charming heft, Dan Mangan’s first ostensible outing with the full band Blacksmith (th... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Reviews
Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love
Recorded in secret in early 2014, seven years after they began their 'extended hiatus,' No Cities to Love is as daring and playful as its head-spinning prove... Read more »| 05 Jan 2015 -
Live MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – January 2015
Justin Townes Earle and BC Camplight warm the frosty cockles; Independent Venue Week atones for the rampant capitalism of Christmas, and Canada invades Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Live Music
Francis Lung @ Sacred Trinity, 18 December
In its own low-key way, Tom McClung’s progression from ash-choked backing vocalist and bassist in WU LYF has been as fascinating as that group’s ... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – January 2015
Right, enough’s enough. If you insist on validating the passing of yet another twelve months by making a resolution to be less of a shithead this year,... Read more »| 01 Jan 2015 -
Videos
The Pleasance Sessions: The Twilight Sad – 'Last January'
Watch The Twilight Sad perform 'Last January', recorded live at The Pleasance Sessions in Edinburgh Read more »| 19 Dec 2014 -
Festivals
Trans Musicales 2014, Rennes 4-7 December
Trans Musicales is renowned for its originality and variety. 2014's edition doesn't disappoint Read more »| 19 Dec 2014 -
Videos
St. Vincent signs off bumper year with 'Birth in Reverse’ video
Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, has revealed a video for Birth in Reverse from her stand-out, self-titled fourth LP. The clip for the track – which feat... Read more »| 17 Dec 2014 -
Live Music
Manic Street Preachers play The Holy Bible, Barrowlands, 8 December
“Whether Richey had gone missing or not, it was obvious to us that smashing those instruments meant the end of something,” Nicky Wire once remark... Read more »| 16 Dec 2014