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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NewsTYCI announce line-up for Christmas All-Dayer in Glasgow
Female-led Scottish arts blog TYCI have revealed details of an all day festival of music, spoken word, arts and performance set to take place in Glasgow late... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014 -
Live Music
Deathcats @ Stereo, Glasgow, 5 December
This might not be Deathcats’ last ever show. It’s not even their final gig of the year. But it has the feeling of a farewell party all the same; ... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014 -
NewsDeath Grips drop ‘Inanimate Sensation’ video
Death Grips have reemerged with a video for ‘Inanimate Sensation’, taken from the second half of their final double album The Powers That B. The... Read more »| 10 Dec 2014 -
Videos
Perfume Genius releases video for Fool
Perfume Genius, aka Mike Hadreas, has unveiled the video for Fool, as well as announcing plans for his biggest UK show yet to take place next June. The Seat... Read more »| 09 Dec 2014 -
Opinion
Albums of 2014: And the runners-up were...
You've read about our top ten favourite albums of the year – but who was floating under the radar? Read more »| 05 Dec 2014 -
News
Nick Talbot aka Gravenhurst dies aged 37
We're shocked and saddened to hear that singer-songwriter and journalist Nick Talbot – aka Gravenhurst – has died at the age of 37, as confirmed ... Read more »| 04 Dec 2014
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Opinion
Albums of 2014 (#1): Warpaint – Warpaint (Rough Trade)
Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa on re-thinking and re-imagining Warpaint, the band's most effusively eclectic record to date Read more »| 04 Dec 2014 -
Opinion
Albums of 2014 (#2): The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave (Fat Cat)
Down but far from out, The Twilight Sad have recovered from “tough times” and delivered their finest album to date. James Graham explains where things go from here Read more »| 04 Dec 2014 -
Playlists
Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah Playlist
Since 2001, indie veterans Yo La Tengo have hosted an annual series of Hanukkah shows in their home town of Hoboken. Here, frontman Ira Kaplan selects the songs that remind him of his favourite guest performers to light up the Maxwell's stage Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
OpinionAlbums of 2014 (#3) : The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
They might've sounded like Dylan and Springsteen to many, but Adam Granduciel ensured the War On Drugs adopted classic tropes in order to ultimately do their own thing Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Opinion
Albums of 2014 (#4): St. Vincent – St. Vincent
A confident fourth album, a fierce new visual style, a band that is – by one account – the best in the world... Annie Clark has had a pretty good year, all told Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
OpinionAlbums of 2014 (#5): Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
With her second album winning over UK audiences, Angel Olsen explains how collaboration is the key that unlocks her singular vision Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Reviews
The Grand Gestures – Third
From monochrome artwork to functional title, The Grand Gestures' third album in three years deviates little from the mould cast by parts one and two, yet t... Read more »| 03 Dec 2014 -
Opinion
Albums of 2014 (#6): Mogwai – Rave Tapes (Rock Action)
Mogwai's latest opus Rave Tapes saw them applying electronic menace to their beguiling post-rock template, before unexpectedly yet heroically gatecrashing the charts. Stuart Braithwaite discusses the album and beyond Read more »| 02 Dec 2014 -
Opinion
Albums of 2014 (#7): FKA Twigs – LP1 (Young Turks)
Six months on, FKA Twigs' commanding debut LP1 will still make you work for it. Complicated, heated and completely rewarding, Twigs transcends R&B in her “own damn way” Read more »| 02 Dec 2014