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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ReviewsPusha T – Fear of God II: Let Us Pray
Pusha T, the younger half of seminal Virginia hip-hop duo Clipse, has been making a conscious move towards the mainstream arena in his own right, as even a c... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Live MusicThe Metal Column – December 2011
The Skinny likes its metal like we don't like our weather – harsh, uncompromising, brutal – and although we're unlikely to be kept pleased by the... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Interviews
Dead Boy Robotics: Tales of the Future
Edinburgh trio Dead Boy Robotics count Blade Runner as a pivotal influence, enjoy a bit of Xbox Live and have written a funk ode to the Jaffa Cake. A band with these credentials should be celebrated – we have a word as their debut finally touches down Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Interviews
Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley: "Metal can be absurd and also really profound"
The man who accidentally leaked our January 2011 cover on his blog in the middle of last December brings The Skinny’s year (and his band’s catalogue) full circle. Enter Stephen O’Malley of progressive monoliths Sunn O))) Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Josh T. Pearson @ Òran Mór, 22 November
Those who have encountered Josh T. Pearson’s solo debut Last of the Country Gentlemen – or, indeed, the psychedelic apocalypticism of his previou... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Raleigh Moncrief – Watered Lawn
Sacramento’s Raleigh Moncrief has been chiefly known, until now, for his production work – particularly on the Dirty Projectors’ 2009 opus ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011
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Live Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: A Phestive Phantomime @ Stereo, 16+17 Dec
In case you hadn’t heard, The Phantom Band have good taste and ambition in spades and this month they threaten to outdo themselves with the unveiling o... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Live MusicLive Music Highlights – December 2011
The month kicks off with a blistering double-bill courtesy of Nigerien psych-rock/drone-funk rebels Group Inerane and the incredible Flower/Corsano duo. Grou... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
ReviewsBill Wells – Lemondale
Following his collaboration with Maher Shalal Hash Baz on 2009’s GOK, Bill Wells returned to Japan to record Lemondale, corralling an impressive array ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Dead Boy Robotics – Dead Boy Robotics
Spitting with dark, expansive electro fervour right from the start, this self-titled debut album from Edinburgh trio Dead Boy Robotics is nothing if not ambi... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Zomby – Nothing EP
Nothing is a rather perverse collector's item: a slightly underwhelming Zomby record. Although billed as a breakbeat-assisted companion piece to Dedication, ... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Lil Daggers – Lil Daggers
Imagine finding an old wireless; winding it up, and turning it on to discover that it’s still tuned to an old forgotten AM station constantly broadcast... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
ReviewsMax Cooper - Amalgamations EP
These two extended tracks draw variously upon orchestral and electronic sounds as Max Cooper blends patterns and rhythms which exhibit his mathematical appro... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Korn – The Path of Totality
Jon Davis: “They (our fans) don’t really understand dubstep but then they relate to it because it’s heavy and dark but not techno. They&rsq... Read more »| 25 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Dimlite – Grimm Reality
If you'll forgive the transgression of a time-honoured proverb, the cover of Grimm Reality offers a useful shorthand to the maelstrom of ideas orbiting Dimli... Read more »| 25 Nov 2011