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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ReviewsNasty P – Story So Far
Story So Far by Nasty P is a cohesive, satisfying collection of hip-hop cuts aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Read more »| 10 May 2012 -
ReviewsKing Tuff – King Tuff
Even if this brand of finely tuned garage rock is not entirely groundbreaking, and the infectious vocal hooks on each track are largely some variation on c... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
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Cornershop – Urban Turban
Cornershop have been releasing records for more than 20 years but are still bizarrely viewed in some quarters as one-hit-wonders. It's an entirely undeserv... Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
PlaylistsTrack-by-track: El-P Unveils Cancer4Cure
Pushing hip-hop ever forward with his first full-blown album in five years, maverick Brooklyn producer El-P explains Cancer4Cure's compelling origins Read more »| 09 May 2012 -
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Still Flyin' – On a Bedroom Wall
The second LP from San Francisco’s Still Flyin’ takes its cues from the dreamy atmospheres of understated 80s indie; the textures of opener Els... Read more »| 08 May 2012 -
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Dead Mellotron – Glitter
Given the celebrated output of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound foreman Bradford Cox, it’s surprising just how few imitators he has. There’s good reason fo... Read more »| 08 May 2012
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Interviews
First listen: PAWS – Misled Youth
Glasgow pop-punk three-piece PAWS are heading down to Brighton's Great Escape Festival this month to play the Scottish Showcase stage alongside Adm... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Festivals
Noise of Summer: UK Festivals 2012
From north to south, we present a guide to the festival season’s first, second, third (and umpteenth) big weekends Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen – May 2012
With his two bandmates otherwise engaged, the gargantuan responsibility of reviewing the month’s singles rests squarely on the shoulders of Phillip from Glasgow trio PAWS. Can he withstand the terrible auto-tuned RnB vocals? Will the CDs actually work? Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
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Will Dutta – Parergon
Though the majority of Parergon is centred on the piano, subtle droning electronic frequencies, echo effects and even schizophrenic Venetian Snares-style... Read more »| 03 May 2012 -
Interviews
Death Grips: “There's a lot of recycling and destruction in the making of our music”
A full-frontal assault on the musical culture of 2012, Death Grips might just be the most important band to arrive so far this century. Zach Hill discusses raw reality, release and borrowing Simon Cowell's printer Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
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Bang On! – [sic]
The debut from 21-year-old Liverpudlian rapper Elliott Egerton expresses the frustrations, tensions and mundanity of inner-city poverty with disarming dire... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
Interviews
Geoff Barrow talks DROKK: "2000AD is as important to me as Public Enemy"
Portishead's Geoff Barrow gives us the lowdown on his new Judge Dredd-inspired synth project, DROKK. Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
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Taffy – Caramel Sunset
In the UK, Britpop’s spectre – not Pulp or Blur, but the bread and butter bands that once padded out Shine compilations – has kept a penite... Read more »| 02 May 2012 -
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Admiral Fallow – Tree Bursts In Snow
Admiral Fallow are a success story to warm the most jaded of hearts, their measured ascent possessing the kind of slow-burn, grass-roots momentum that can&... Read more »| 02 May 2012