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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NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 25 February
In today's Bulletin: Playstation 4 news, Iggy & The Stooges reform, a new Belle & Sebastian doc, Creative Scotland's public consultations begin, plus new music from The Pastels, Small Black, Conquering Animal Sounds, and Cannibal Ox's new Kickstarter Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
Live MusicThe Bronx / Single Mothers, The Garage, 16 February
Ontario's Single Mothers have often been compared to The Hold Steady – mainly due to vocalist Andrew Thomson's vivid, half-spoken narratives ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
How to Destroy Angels – Welcome oblivion
Having delivered two competent-but-unremarkable EPs thus far, How to Destroy Angels were surely looking to make a strong statement with their debut long-play... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
ReviewsMogwai – Les Revenants
Mogwai's soundtrack for French zombie TV show Les Revenants is an exercise in wilful self-control and restraint, with their customary feedback-driven walls o... Read more »| 22 Feb 2013 -
NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 22 February
Exclusive releases from David Bowie, Stephen Malkmus and Sub Pop for Record Store Day; new music from Doldrums, Primal Scream, Hawk Eyes and Rob Zombie; Festival Watch: Meadows in the Mountains, Open'er and Echo Read more »| 22 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
Mano Le Tough – Changing Days
Born near Dublin, Niall Mannion aka Mano Le Tough moved to Berlin some time before 2009, and quietly began to revolutionise the template of house music with ... Read more »| 22 Feb 2013
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Live Music
Deftones @ Barrowland, 15 February
Since side-stepping the bad old days of nu-metal with their dignity intact (while former peers turned to Dr Drew and Skrillex for career advice), Deftones ha... Read more »| 21 Feb 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 20 February
In today's Bulletin: Billy Corgan shills furniture, new music from Atoms For Peace, How To Destroy Angels, Bat For Lashes and Diplo, Stirling's The Changing Room faces possible closure, more festival news, plus: Interzone comes to The Whisky Bond Read more »| 20 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
Various Artists – Dødpop Vol. 3
Skwee is an awkward beast of a genre. Glasgow-based artist Ben Butler & Mousepad described it for us in a recent interview: “Synthetic funk; influe... Read more »| 18 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
Miguel Baptista Benedict – Super(b)-Child-Ran
Less an album and more of a compilation, this collection of cut-ups and collages from experimental producer Miguel Baptista Benedict was selected by Brainfee... Read more »| 18 Feb 2013 -
Live Music
Memory Drawings / Chris Tenz / Talvihorros @ The Banshee Labyrinth, 10 February
Talvihorros, the pen name of Edinburgh musician Ben Chatwin, is described as “a study of guitar and electronics,” on his website. As such, tonigh... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
Live Music
Desaparecidos / We Are The Physics @ The Arches, 9 February
With their vaudevillian flair as abundant as ever, We Are The Physics are on fine, frenetic form this evening. Wise-cracking and Orinoco Flow-ing t... Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
Interviews
French shoegazers Team Ghost unveil their long-awaited debut
Gallic electro-shoegaze rockers Team Ghost are set to blaze a trail through the year with debut album Rituals. The Skinny got the lowdown from singer Nicolas Fromageau (ex-M83), synth-wizard Benoît DeVilleneuve and guitarist Christophe Guérin Read more »| 15 Feb 2013 -
News
Valentine's Day: Hudson Mohawke's Slow Jams VI Mixtape
Gun clacks and Lionel Richie feature in Glasgow producer's seventh St. Valentine's mix Read more »| 14 Feb 2013 -
Reviews
Autechre – Exai
Eleven albums deep into a career that reached new heights of expressiveness with 2010's emotionally-charged Oversteps LP (reviewed here), Exai ... Read more »| 13 Feb 2013