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.
-
InterviewsThe Golden Hour
The Golden Hour is an event that takes place monthly at the Forest Café, combining literature readings, bad jokes, music, funny jokes, dancing and vis... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
ReviewsFoals - Total Life Forever
Rightly or wrongly, 2008's debut Foals LP Antidotes – while well-received – was oft-described as a sort of cerebral nu-rave (as if a 'smarter Kla... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Festivals
Stag & Dagger Festival @ Various Venues (Glasgow), 22 May
If Hinterland wasn’t enough to sate your spring multi-venue festival fix, then day long genre mash up and prevalent Shoreditch export Stag and Dagger s... Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
InterviewsErrors vs Faust
In an artist-on-artist interview, Errors' Steev Livingstone grills Faust's own 'Art Errorist' Jean-Hervé Peron as the iconoclastic daddies of Krautrock prepare for a rare Scottish date at The Arches Read more »| 30 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Atari Teenage Riot - Activate
Released to coincide with ATR's reunion tour (a reunion in which Alec Empire is the only original member – although Carl Crack has a good excuse by din... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
InterviewsAsk Patton: Dillinger Escape Plan, Massive Attack, DoseOne, Portishead, Deftones and Phantom Band submit their questions...
Collaborators, friends and fans from music communities far and wide pitch questions to Ipecac Records boss and Faith No More frontman Mike Patton Read more »| 29 Apr 2010
-
Reviews
Cibelle - Las Venus Resort Palace Hotel
Leading with a cover of Dr. No theme Underneath the Mango Tree, pop-nut Cibelle shares 007’s cosmopolitan internationalism. Born in Brazil and ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Lazer Crystal - MCMLXXX
Lazer Crystal are three electro-futurists who hail from Chicago, and their big thing – in case you hadn’t guessed – is lasers. Boy ... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Interviews
The Untouchable: Mike Patton on Mondo Cane and Faith No More's Second Coming
The chameleonic Mike Patton talks to The Skinny about falling in love with classic Italian pop and ponders a future for Faith No More Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Live Music
The Metal Column - May 2010
Seems that when the deadline for this column rolls around, we’re always a bit concerned that there might not be an abundance of heavy music to cover fo... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Interviews
New Blood: The Boy Who Trapped The Sun
With an eagerly awaited debut album set for release in July, The Boy Who Trapped The Sun talks to The Skinny ahead of what is sure to be the biggest summer of his life Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Loch Lomond - Night Bats EP
Portland has roughly half a million inhabitants, and surveys reveal that approximately four-hundred thousand of them are in dead good bands (citation... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Live Music
Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers @ Wee Red Bar, 22 April
Whatever the result of the election, we can rest easy that today's young adults have their priorities appropriately ordered: judging by this excellent turnou... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Live Music
The Primitives @ Stereo, 22 April
“That’s a blast from the past, eh?” notes the glass-cased ticket-seller. “Met her a few years back - was training to be a hairdresser... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Interviews
New Blood: Dam Mantle
Keeping Glasgow's historical form for producing forward-thinking electronica artists alive, relocated Kent native Dam Mantle finds himself in the right place at the right time Read more »| 28 Apr 2010