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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InterviewsChemikal, Numbers and The Wedding Present look forward to The Last Big Weekend
With the likes of Mogwai, HudMo, James Murphy and The Wedding Present onboard, The Last Big Weekend offers up two days of carefully curated food for the soul at Richmond Park in late August. We speak to some of the players involved Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
ReviewsThe Bug – Angels & Devils
This isn't the Bug album you are expecting. By splitting the album in two, Kevin Martin addresses some big themes and shows himself to be a producer of remar... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Reviews
Rustie – Green Language
There's a playfulness to the opening sections of Green Language – we are treated to three false starts, Rustie delivering riffs of staggering infe... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Reviews
The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Perhaps it’s just the afterglow imparted by the pristine, peppy power-pop that’s been their stock in trade for the last 15 years, but life in The... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Reviews
James Yorkston – The Cellardyke Recording and Wassailing Society
James Yorkston’s eighth album of original material finds the erudite Fifer facing up to mortality in his most sparse and contemplative album to date. Y... Read more »| 06 Aug 2014 -
Live MusicFKA Twigs @ Stereo, 29 July
At first, smoke clouds and back lighting sustain FKA Twigs’ mystery and unearthliness; that alien air steadily cultivated over the last 20-or-so months... Read more »| 05 Aug 2014
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Festivals
Electric Dreams: Behind the scenes at new Dumfriesshire festival Electric Fields
As the latest prospect on Scotland's festival circuit sets out its stall, we go behind the scenes at Dumfries-based one day event Electric Fields with two of its core organisers Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
InterviewsSaving Grace: Owl John on the record that rescued Frightened Rabbit
Ten years into his career with Frightened Rabbit, Scott Hutchison came close to calling it a day. He tells The Skinny how solo record Owl John may just have kept the band in business Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Interviews
Deconstruction Works: Adult Jazz unveil their unorthodox debut
After a long incubation period, pathological brainboxes Adult Jazz are finally ready to release their genre-busting, metanarrative-laden debut. We ask the four-piece to give us the gist Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Interviews
Unfolding The Exquisite Corpse: Grumbling Fur Interviewed
Amidst statements of wanting to transcend the mundane, Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan’s latest project really seems to be about their friendship Read more »| 01 Aug 2014 -
Live Music
Wickerman 2014: Saturday, 26 July
With a layer of cloud settling over this part of rural Kirkcudbrightshire there is no repeat of Friday’s bakehouse temperatures. Saturday is an altoget... Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Live Music
Wickerman 2014: Friday, 25 July
Among the many spectacles at this year’s Wickerman festival are the punters themselves. Aside from the bands, the stalls, the reggae tent and the fairg... Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Interviews
Lost Map's Howlin' Fling
The inaugural Howlin' Fling on Eigg was a roaring success for Lost Map and a joy for anyone lucky enough to attend it Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Interviews
"Why would it be the same?" – Words with J Mascis
With solo album Tied To A Star ready to drop, J Mascis maintains the irrepressible form that's marked his career since reforming Dinosaur Jr ten years ago. We spoke with the reserved guitarist, and occasionally even got a response Read more »| 31 Jul 2014 -
Live Music
O2 Love Music Column – August 2014
When the British Empire was decolonised in 1949 and the Commonwealth of Nations declared, it’s not entirely clear if Queen Lizzie stipulated that Glasg... Read more »| 31 Jul 2014