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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ReviewsWeathered Hands – A Warm Life in the Cold
Weathered Hands make urgent, post-hardcore infused rock which strives for the anthemic status of early 2000s bands like Funeral for a Friend and A Day to Rem... Read more »| 10 Mar 2014 -
Interviews
A Classic Obsession: The War on Drugs' Adam Granduciel gets Lost in the Dream
As his War on Drugs prepares to unleash album number three, Adam Granduciel talks of his time-honoured admirations and the forces that compel him to make music Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
InterviewsTwo’s Company: Owls' Tim Kinsella talks careers and comebacks
Thirteen years after their debut, Chicago experimentalists Owls return to the fray with a long-awaited follow-up. Tim Kinsella dissects the weight of expectation Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
Opinion
Slint's David Pajo on Leonard Cohen
Slint guitarist David Pajo, who has played with a huge range of bands including the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol and Zwan, reflects on his respect for Leonard Cohen, and his experience of touring, as a teenager, with Glenn Danzig Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
VideosTen Rapid: The best new music videos with The War On Drugs, Run The Jewels, Pixies and more
The Skinny selects this week's best new music videos, with the Pixies taking a walk on the beach, Run The Jewels in a brightly-coloured neon nightmare, The War On Drugs judging a talent show, plus new music from Laibach, Ghostpoet and many more Read more »| 07 Mar 2014 -
News
T Break: United Fruit and Hector Bizerk look back
As T Break opens for submissions from Scotland's up-and-coming bands, United Fruit's Marco Panagopoulos and Hector Bizerk's Louie tell us what playing the showcase stage at T in the Park did for their careers Read more »| 07 Mar 2014
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Playlists
Cloud Sounds #8: Don't Mess With Texas
We speak exclusively to 'G' Hastings of Young Fathers about his band's SXSW appearance, and present a curated playlist of a few favourites playing at this year's festival, which kicks off tomorrow Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Francois and the Atlas Mountains – Piano Ombre
A band picking up where a previous album left off can often be a point of frustration and the sound of a band stagnating, but in the case of Franç... Read more »| 06 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Machines in Heaven – bordersbreakdown
The plentiful supply of electro-pop cascading from Glasgow shows no sign of drying up. With Miaoux Miaoux becoming the city's go-to producer and CHVRCHES n... Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
InterviewsHowling at the Moon: Future Islands' Samuel T. Herring navigates breakups and bruising tour schedules on Singles
The Baltimore trio return with an improbable synthpop masterpiece to revive a spiritless generation Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
Live Music
Claudio Simonetti's Goblin / Golden Teacher @ Òran Mór, 27 February
Glasgow's Golden Teacher haven't been given enough time to showcase their wares in this support slot. Each slab of their Afro-futurist house, filtered t... Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Jimi Goodwin – Odludek
Despite spending the best part of his career fronting a band named Doves, Jimi Goodwin isn’t a fan of inhabiting pigeonholes. He’s been talking u... Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
Live Music
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra @ Òran Mór, 25 February
A Silver Mount Zion travel from Canada to channel musical splendour and poetic insight, only to be let down by a gammy volume knob Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
Reviews
Free Nelson Mandoomjazz – The Shape of Doomjazz to Come
Those who investigate the bleak and heavy terrain of Edinburgh jazz/metal fusionists Free Nelson Mandoomjazz will find a lot to enjoy. The guitarist's powerf... Read more »| 05 Mar 2014 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – March 2014
After the ordeal of January and February, were you planning on putting away dollar for that summer trip you planned? With Dean Blunt landing in Manchester and François & the Atlas Mountains dropping into Liverpool for a visit, you might wanna think twice Read more »| 04 Mar 2014