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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NewsRiverside Festival Announces Warm-Up Events
Philadelphia techno legend Josh Wink is among the big names at a series of warm-up events ahead of this May's Electric Frog & Pressure Riversid... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
The Lucid Dream – The Lucid Dream
The name is, of course, deliberate. The Lucid Dream is the band, album title and state of consciousness the music is reaching for. The Carlisle group have re... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsBuena Vista Social Club – Lost and Found
"We want our music to endure" are the words of singer Omara Portuondo that are unlikely to stop echoing in the critic-sphere. Now the hype surrounding the fi... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi
“You’ve haunted me all my life,” runs Ben Gibbard’s refrain near the midpoint of Death Cab For Cutie’s latest; given the ubiqui... Read more »| 18 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsPolar Bear – Same As You
The oft-Mercury-nominated avant-jazz experimentalists Polar Bear return with a shimmeringly beautiful 55 minutes of measured breathing and humanity. Same As ... Read more »| 17 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsBlueflint – Stories From Home
From Mogwai to King Creosote to Edinburgh Leithers, Blueflint – producer Paul Savage is trading his cards for the increasingly niche. Yet this band did... Read more »| 17 Mar 2015
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ReviewsBenoît Pioulard – Sonnet
Submerging into a white-wash of distilled ambience from the outset, yes, we’ve still got the same Benoît Pioulard. But this time we’re offe... Read more »| 17 Mar 2015 -
News
Jay Baruchel to star in Idlewild video for ‘Every Little Means Trust’
Canadian actor Jay Baruchel, of How to Train Your Dragon and This is the End fame, is to star in the video for Idlewild’s new single Every Little Means... Read more »| 16 Mar 2015 -
News
Duke Garwood unveils 'Disco Lights' video
Following the release of his critically-acclaimed fifth album Heavy Love, London-based bluesman Duke Garwood unveils the video for his new single Disco ... Read more »| 16 Mar 2015 -
Opinion
Under the Influence: Warpaint's Jenny Lee Lindberg
From Aphex to Siouxsie, Warpaint’s bass player goes rummaging through the record bag and tells a potted history of her musical education Read more »| 16 Mar 2015 -
Interviews
Loud and Clear: Lightning Bolt's Brian Gibson on Fantasy Empire
Rhode Island's noisiest pair return with the relative polish of new album Fantasy Empire – if only bassist Brian Gibson could stop apologising Read more »| 13 Mar 2015 -
Live Music
Neon Waltz / The Tripps @ Nice'n'Sleazy, Glasgow, 4 March
We once talked about Mod revivals as if the scene occasionally vanished from view, only to return at a later date. But Glasgow has never lost its love of Fre... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
News
Young Fathers share new track 'Shame'
Edinburgh trio Young Fathers have shared Shame, the second track from their upcoming album White Men Are Black Men Too due for release next month. Allo... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
News
Northwest Music News — 12 March | Red Deer Clubs Turns 10, New Hartheim + More
Red Deer Club Turns 10 Starting out as a semi-regular live evening in the upstairs of intimate Withington vegetarian cafe-cum-live space Fuel, Red Deer Club... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
Glad Café and GoldFlakePaint team up for Sucker Punch festival
This May sees Glasgow venue The Glad Café join forces with music webzine GoldFlakePaint to present the inaugural Sucker Punch mini weekender... Read more »| 12 Mar 2015