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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InterviewsThe Lost and Damned: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead return with a fury
As they set about releasing their blistering eighth album, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead’s multi-instrumentalist Jason Reece talks Texan prog, German punk and Scottish niceties Read more »| 05 Oct 2012 -
InterviewsPyramid Songs: Efterklang bring their elegant new LP to The Usher Hall
From a frozen ghost town in the Arctic to the stage of Sydney Opera House, Efterklang’s Rasmus Stolberg maps out their fourth album’s journey Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
InterviewsAnything Goes: Duff McKagan talks Loaded, GN'R's legacy and living in the present
As he looks forward to Loaded's part in Alice Cooper's Night of Fear in Edinburgh this month, founding Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan discusses new project Walking Papers, the future of Velvet Revolver and the legacy of his old band Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
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Gallows: "It's time for us to come back and come back hard"
Following the release of their ferociously uncompromising self-titled album last month, Gallows' Laurent "Lags" Barnard and Wade MacNeil talk us through the band's new global outlook, the birth of Venn Records, and the future of Gallows 2.0. Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
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Brasstronaut – Mean Sun
As their clunky name indicates, trumpets aren’t just an occasional adornment in Brasstronaut’s songwriting; they’re its heart. Like debut... Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
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Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen talks Shields' tricky genesis
Rossen explains why a desert retreat, self-imposed pressure, and scrapping an album's worth of material turned in to blessings in disguise for the Brooklyn quartet Read more »| 03 Oct 2012
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Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan talks new LP The Haunted Man
Bat for Lashes' third album sees Natasha Khan laying bare her voice, her soul and her body – she tells us how The Haunted Man expresses her new-found joy in life Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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Dog Is Dead – All Our Favourite Stories
Nottingham’s Dog is Dead have been all over this summer’s festival calendar, and with good reason. Debut LPAll Our Favourite Stories sounds ... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Lost Songs
Coming with an overtly political manifesto, Trail of Dead’s eighth studio album Lost Songs fittingly stands as their most direct statement in some time... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsConverge – All We Love We Leave Behind
With so much made of “tricky” second and third albums, not many platitudes exist to explain the challenge faced by those bands with the gumpt... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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Rozi Plain – Joined Sometimes Unjoined
Where Rozi Plain’s debut Inside Over Here was pieced together from various home recordings, the creation of Joined Sometimes Unjoined involved a full b... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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Lukid – Lonely at the Top
Although previous Lukid records have always been beautifully complex and intricate, they have also been fairly easy to place within contemporary electroni... Read more »| 03 Oct 2012 -
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The Dirty Dozen – October 2012
Recovering at his Edinburgh home from a nasty chest infection, Dan ‘Withered Hand’ Willson dutifully bunkers down to the healing sounds of October’s single releases Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Hidden Orchestra: In Plain Sight
Joe Acheson talks to The Skinny about Hidden Orchestra's beautiful new album Archipelago, and the highlights of the Scottish urban music scene today Read more »| 02 Oct 2012 -
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Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
The biggest difference between The Haunted Man and 2009's Two Suns is in the presentation – gone are the intricate, ornate, quasi-mystical visual trapp... Read more »| 02 Oct 2012