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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InterviewsFuture Shock: EMA Interviewed
With The Future’s Void set to expand her reputation and fan base, Erika M Anderson (aka EMA) talks to The Skinny about second album nerves and why artistic, rather than commercial, success is what drives her Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
PlaylistsTrack-by-Track: The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli unveils Do to the Beast
16 years after The Afghan Whigs released the celebratory masterpiece that fans eventually came to embrace as their swansong, the reactivated Cincinnati outfit's principal offers a beginners guide to its soul searching latter-day sequel Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Shonen Knife – Overdrive
There’s just something about the Japanese approach to pop music that sets both knees and lower lips a-tremblin' - especially here in the (relatively) o... Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Woods – With Light And With Love
While many ‘alternative’ bands make a habit of becoming more esoteric as they age, Woods have taken the other route. The first Woods record At Re... Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
ReviewsLiz Green – Haul Away!
In a recent interview, Liz Green described Haul Away! as more joyous than debut O Devotion, in that "lyrically not as many people die" – a deadpan asse... Read more »| 02 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
The Amazing Snakeheads – Amphetamine Ballads
Those unfamiliar with Glasgow's The Amazing Snakeheads might presume this album is the sound of a band going back to basics; there's drums, bass, guitar, voc... Read more »| 02 Apr 2014
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News
Aidan Moffat shares first track from Where You're Meant To Be
As he prepares to embark on a folk music road trip with filmmaker Paul Fegan for his new project Where You're Meant To Be, Aidan Moffat shares a new track, Jock McGraw Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
Loops Haunt – Exits
The full-length debut of Scotland's Scott Douglas Gordon combines carefully treated field recordings, spectral synth work, musique concrete and questing, exp... Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
Reviews
PUP – PUP
Punk is pessimistic; it languishes in its own brash, self-deprecating defeatism. It’s no surprise then that Toronto-based four-piece PUP named themselv... Read more »| 01 Apr 2014 -
InterviewsMy Degeneration: Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi spills on Here and Nowhere Else
Cleveland trio Cloud Nothings are back to save angsty post-adolescents everywhere. Whisper it, but mainman Dylan Baldi might even be enjoying himself Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
Festivals
SxSW: A Veteran's Perspective
An attendee of South by Southwest for over a decade, BBC Radio Scotland DJ Vic Galloway is still a firm believer in its ability to break new ground Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – April 2014
This month, we take an advance look at Glasgow in-the-city festival Stag & Dagger, featuring Forest Swords, The Hold Steady and East India Youth, plus gigs from The Cosmic Dead, Randolph's Leap, Manic Street Preachers and Ghana's King Ayisoba Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
Live MusicNorthwest Gig Highlights – April 2014
While Christians are celebrating the resurrection of their messiah this month, we’re looking forward to the arrival of some peeps who can walk on water in our eyes, including Kiran Leonard, Timber Timbre and George Clinton Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
SOHN – Tremors
Having nabbed a 4AD signing off the back of his first EP The Wheel, the now-Vienna-based British (and former Trouble Over Tokyo) producer Toph Taylor –... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Randolph's Leap – Clumsy Knot
For those not already familiar with Randolph’s Leap, the lyric “living like a hermit / hermit the frog” could serve as a kind of acid test.... Read more »| 31 Mar 2014