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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ReviewsSonic Hearts Foundation – Into Forever
Glasgow's Sonic Hearts Foundation claim to have three album's worth of material under their collective belt, and it shows – from the opening elect... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
"King Creosote and who??" was the cry from many a Scot when Anstruther's finest unveiled 2011's seminal collaborative work Diamond Mine. Largely unknown... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 14 June
In today's Bulletin: Stuart Braithwaite on the benefit concert to save the Sighthill Stone Circle; new music from Beth Gibbons, Liars, Nigel Godrich and more; an interview with TNGHT's Lunice; the history of the Black Flag logo, plus the latest trailers Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 12 June
Crowd-fund a Mo' Wax retrospective; Kraftwerk recording next LP; listen to Kveikur by Sigur Rós; goNORTH stage lineup announced for Wickerman Festival; plus music from James Holden, Black Sabbath, Poliça, David Lynch, Com Truise and more Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Live MusicFucked Up / Titus Andronicus / METZ, SWG3, 28 May
“Can we kill these lights, please?” METZ guitarist / vocalist Alex Edkins asks bluntly, rejecting unnecessary theatrics as the Canadian... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
μ-Ziq – Chewed Corners
Planet Mu founder and UK electronic music veteran Mike Paradinas returns with a new album under his revered μ-Ziq guise, his first under that moniker sinc... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013
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Interviews
Kamikaze Shoegaze: Sonic Hearts Foundation in interview
Rising stars of the Glasgow live scene, indie shoegazers Sonic Hearts Foundation tell us about their guerilla gigs, insane pedal arrays, and their new EP, Into Forever Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Matthew Herbert – The End of Silence
Utilising a single ten-second audio recording as the sole sound source for an entire LP, Matthew Herbert has created one of his boldest and most thought-prov... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Anna Von Hausswolff – Ceremony
If you think the title of Ceremony’s opening instrumental Epitaph of Theodor sounds grandiose, wait till you hear its brooding church organ melody... Read more »| 11 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Mount Eerie, Nice 'n' Sleazy, 21 May
The endearing Phil Elverum returns to Glasgow for the first time since last Septmber’s Ocean Roar, in which he and others put in further work... Read more »| 10 Jun 2013 -
Interviews
Black & Blue Romantic: Baths talks Obsidian
Los Angeles composer, beatmaker and singer extraordinaire Baths is back with his second offering for Anticon – he tells us about his battle with sickness, his love of dark music, and why Obsidian is the album he was born to make Read more »| 07 Jun 2013 -
Interviews
The Pitfalls of Perfection: Deafheaven on Sunbather
In the depths of a Glasgow basement, Deafheaven's George Clarke and Kerry McCoy deconstruct their band's lush and entirely listenable(!) take on black metal Read more »| 07 Jun 2013 -
Festivals
Primavera Sound 2013: 10 Reasons We Went
As the new school mixed it up with the old guard on a bill with too many highlights (and clashes!), Primavera Sound 2013 offered a world class banquet for music nerds and casual observers alike. These are just ten of the reasons we got on the plane... Read more »| 07 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Marnie Stern / Sky Larkin, Broadcast, 2 June
For a support slot on a Sunday night, Leeds quartet Sky Larkin attract a notably enthusiastic crowd, and a blistering set showcasing material from their up-a... Read more »| 07 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel / Lach, Mono, 1 June
Jeffrey Lewis has always been astute in his choice of collaborators, and his work with 60s psych-folk survivor Peter Stampfel continues to be endearingly bon... Read more »| 07 Jun 2013