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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ReviewsCut Yourself in Half – Mekkanizm
Yorkshire's Cut Yourself in Half lift more than a few pages from Mastodon's book on this first set of recordings: the down-tuned, groove-oriented nature of t... Read more »| 15 Apr 2013 -
Live Music
British Sea Power, Casual Sex @ Òran Mór, 7 April
For much of their current tour, British Sea Power have been opening gigs with a bonus set of ‘mellow’ fan-favourites. Unfortunately, Oran Mor&rsq... Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 12 April
Trailer emerges for Irvine Welsh's Filth; Oliver Stone defends Julian Assange; Scott Walker box-set announced; new KORG synth recreates the 303 and 808; Death Grips remix The Prodigy; new music from Pictureplane, United Fruit and more, plus festival news Read more »| 12 Apr 2013 -
Reviews
!!! – Thr!!!er
Throughout their 17 years thus far, !!! have evolved from a tight, snarling punk-funk ensemble into something altogether more louche, studied and h... Read more »| 11 Apr 2013 -
OpinionHero Worship: Trail of Dead's Jason Reece on Waterloo Records
As ...And You will Know Us By the Trail of Dead swing into Glasgow on Record Store Day, Jason Reece salutes his favourite shop Read more »| 10 Apr 2013 -
Live Music
Record Store Day in Edinburgh and Glasgow
As Record Store Day (20 Apr) approaches, you’ll need to meticulously plan your diary to avoid missing out on some of the fantastic in-store events happ... Read more »| 10 Apr 2013
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NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 10 April
Music world 'rejoices' at death of Margaret Thatcher; Art of Protest comes to Manchester; new music from Queens Of The Stone Age, Mount Kimbie, TNGHT, El-P and Killer Mike; The Knife interviewed; plus: CHVRCHES versus Game of Thrones Read more »| 10 Apr 2013 -
Festivals
Festival Season 2013: The Lesser Known
Festivals! They're still happening, except all the ones you used to just roll up to now sell out months in advance ’cause every man and his dog wants to go. Here are some lesser known gems for you to throw your pay packet at instead Read more »| 10 Apr 2013 -
Reviews
David Grubbs – The Plain Where the Palace Stood
The second song on David Grubbs’ first full-length in five years, I Started to Live When My Barber Died, is a playful meditation on the creative potenc... Read more »| 09 Apr 2013 -
Reviews
Pan American – Cloud Room, Glass Room
Billed as an album that was 'written to be played live,' Mark Nelson's umpteenth album under the Pan American moniker makes only small changes to the group's... Read more »| 09 Apr 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 5 April
Daft Punk return with a little help from Giorgio Moroder; new music from Still Corners, Zomby, CocoRosie and Bibio; the latest festival news; opportunities for artists with Collective's Satellites Program; Milan's vertical forest, and much more Read more »| 05 Apr 2013 -
Interviews
Trans Am's Phil Manley and QOTSA's Jon Theodore turn Life Coach
Trans Am’s Phil Manley welcomes old college pal Jon Theodore into the fold for his second album as Life Coach. Ruthless advice and sublime cosmic jams ensue Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Interviews
Keep On Burning: Edwyn Collins on his fearless new LP
Edwyn Collins invites us to his west London studios to discuss Understated – his exhilarating new album Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
InterviewsStrange Daze: Kurt Vile comes of age
Philadelphian troubadour Kurt Vile waxes poetic on rock biographies, giving up drugs, and why loving your couch doesn't make you a slacker Read more »| 04 Apr 2013 -
Reviews
Akron/Family – Sub Verses
On seventh album Sub Verses, Akron/Family again manage to sound both formidably outré yet instinctively graspable. No Room is a brooding beast of... Read more »| 04 Apr 2013