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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ReviewsPuzzle Muteson – En Garde
There are positive ways to be musically ground-breaking; by pushing things further than anyone previously dared, for example, or innovating something brand s... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Live MusicHot Ticket of the Month: Battles @ Glasgow Arches, 7 June
There's precious few bands whose live prowess has managed not only to knock us for six, but to expand our comprehension of what kind of sound a group of huma... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
Reviews
My Morning Jacket – Circuital
On listening to My Morning Jacket’s sixth studio release, it becomes immediately apparent just how significant the shift has been from the country-infl... Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
ReviewsBlack Lips – Arabia Mountain
For a band prone to misinterpreting the spirit of rock and roll (examples abound online – being jerks isn’t the same as being rock stars, guys), ... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
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The Coathangers – Larceny & Old Lace
Taking its scuzz from late 60s proto-punk and the snarl from early 90s riot grrrls, The Coathangers offer a record of near-hits and some legendary misses. Le... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Interviews
Battles: "I don't think quitting ever crossed our minds"
Battles drummer John Stanier steps out from behind his ride cymbal to explain the uneasy genesis of Gloss Drop Read more »| 31 May 2011
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Reviews
Copy Haho – Copy Haho
Having served time on the Scottish circuit for the better part of a decade, the debut album from Stonehaven’s Copy Haho is a long-awaited, suitably ant... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
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Bangers – Small Pleasures
Bangers are a three-piece hailing from Cornwall – about as close as Britain gets to Californian surf culture – and sound more like a US 90s West ... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Reviews
Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
What’s in a name? In the case of Patrick Wolf’s fifth record, quite a lot. The Bachelor disappointed, its harsher edge simultaneously ali... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
ReviewsBon Iver – Bon Iver
Finding overnight fame through his wildly romanticised, critically embraced debut For Emma, Forever Ago, Justin Vernon’s sudden elevation to folk ... Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Festivals
Festival Season: A Summer Wasting
Come drizzle or ash cloud, the Scottish music jamboree will not be defeated – here we cast an eye over the highlights on this summer's typically mental festival calendar Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
Interviews
Indian Red Lopez: Against The Tide
Getting a dressing down from a pop diva and narrowly avoiding a small-town punch up? These have been just some of the pitfalls that have helped make Aberdeen quintet Indian Red Lopez all the more determined Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen – Fucked Up Takeover
Though a lion on the stage, Fucked Up's Damian ‘Pink Eyes’ Abraham takes to the June singles with the gentle demeanour of a lamb – albeit a lamb with a mild contempt for clean production and a loathing for rhythmic movement Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – June 2011
The church of lo-fi psych has seen both its congregation and its clergy swell dramatically over the last couple of years but Julian Lynch and Matt Mondanile ... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
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The Disrupters – Generation Retard
It seems only fitting that Norwich’s Disrupters would wait for a Tory government to return before releasing a new album: it’s what punk’s a... Read more »| 30 May 2011