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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Live MusicThe Pictish Trail / Rozi Plain @ The Glasgow Art Club, 24 January
Despite its air of exclusivity (playfully mocked multiple times by tonight’s headliner), the Glasgow Art Club proves to be a felicitously intimate se... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 30 January
Lineups for Knockengorroch, Bearded Theory, Beacon and SunSplash festivals; new videos from Grizzly Bear, Soundgarden, Karl Bartos and Animal Collective; Bjork's new Kickstarter project; plus comedian Michael J. Dolan on Woman's Hour Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Foals – Holy Fire
With Total Life Forever, Foals rejected genre associations like nu-rave and dance-punk by upping the emotional stakes and working ambiance into their bluep... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Galoshins – EP1/EP2
Recorded separately but released concurrently, EP1 and EP2 work well in combination as a single, album-length introduction to Galoshin’s peculiar bril... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
ReviewsNick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
Throughout his thirty year career with the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave has nary put a cloven hoof wrong and fifteenth album Push the Sky Away shows no sign of bucki... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
ReviewsLusine – The Waiting Room
Developing the vocal-led take on house, synth-pop and techno he developed on ’09’s A Certain Distance, Texas-born electronic producer Lusine deli... Read more »| 30 Jan 2013
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Live Music
Live Music Highlights – February 2013
Homegrown independent(ish) rock commandeers the gig calendar as CHVRCHES, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Django Django, Gummy Stumps, PAWS and Divorce show the big boys how it's done Read more »| 30 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Team Ghost – Rituals
Following up their two towering EPs in 2010, Team Ghost's much-anticipated full-length debut benefits from the band's expansion – backed by a new ... Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
Playlists
Track-by-track: Frightened Rabbit's Pedestrian Verse
Returning to the fray this month with their "darkest record yet", frontman Scott Hutchison guides us through Frightened Rabbit's eagerly anticipated fourth LP Read more »| 29 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Megachurch – Megachurch 2: Judgment Day
There's plenty of bands out there adept at tight, fast-paced rock, but this Cleveland trio have a couple of notable quirks to separate them out from the cr... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
News
Exclusive (cough!): February issue preview
The February issue of The Skinny has gone to press, not sure our graphic designer was totally keen on the draft version we put together for the Frightened Rabbit feature... Read more »| 28 Jan 2013 -
Live Music
Daughter @ Òran Mór, 21 January
London three-piece Daughter have been the subject of much attention this past year, finally revealing they had signed to 4AD late last year. Tonight they pl... Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Attica Rage – 88MPH
Attica Rage's third LP since their inception in 2003 couldn't open in a less predictable way for the Ayrshire rawkers. It's only after a pastoral, Led Zepp... Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
The Bronx – The Bronx IV
L.A. punks The Bronx lay their mariachi band alter-ego to one side after a two record stint, returning to a more traditional rock-based sound on their four... Read more »| 24 Jan 2013 -
Reviews
Eels – Wonderful, Glorious
In the eyes of die-hards who inhale each passing release, it doesn't matter a great deal what a new Eels album sounds like; Mark E. Everett’s place in... Read more »| 23 Jan 2013