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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ReviewsBEAK> – >>
BEAK> could be considered something of a self-indulgent side project for Portishead's Geoff Barrow; a jam-band for a frustrated krautrock afficionado to m... Read more »| 27 Jun 2012 -
ReviewsAesop Rock – Skelethon
Skelethon is the first album from Aesop Rock to be entirely self-produced, but the template hasn't fluctuated much from the mercurial, experimental approach ... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
Dub Pistols – Worshipping The Dollar
Dub Pistols are a force to be reckoned with live, and in the setting of a summer festival there are few better bands to rock out to, with their crowd-ple... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
ReviewsDirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
Predicting the Dirty Projectors’ next step is a pointless task. Led by idiosyncratic frontman David Longstreth, the Brooklyn-based quintet explore ro... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
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Paul Heaton – Presents: The 8th
From the live debut of Bjork’s Biophilia to an Amadou and Mariam gig performed in a pitch-black venue, the 2011 Manchester International Festival h... Read more »| 26 Jun 2012 -
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Doseone – G Is For Deep
Doseone is a phenomenal live hip-hop performer – a literal human dynamo who blows on stage in a torrent of manic, high-pitched rapping and a flurry ... Read more »| 25 Jun 2012
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Live MusicSuzanne Vega / Mike Doughty @ Òran Mór, 18 June
Since disbanding Soul Coughing in 2000, Mike Doughty has continued along a similar path: writing songs by turns wry and impassioned, and firmly rooted in a... Read more »| 21 Jun 2012 -
Live Music
Chris Cornell @ O2 Academy, 15 June
“I’m only here for the Timbaland era,” barks a man in the Academy's gents room. A dozen patrons lining the urinal shoot the perpetrator a... Read more »| 20 Jun 2012 -
Live MusicIn Pictures: EPMD @ The Arches, 10 June
Seminal rap duo Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith AKA EPMD make a rare Scottish appearance at The Arches, supported by Bigg Taj and Hector Bizerk on 10 June,... Read more »| 19 Jun 2012 -
Interviews
Downhill Downtown
It's not often that Fort William – Scotland's outdoor capital, dontcha know – is blessed with a festival that features such a strong co... Read more »| 19 Jun 2012 -
Reviews
Lorn – Ask the Dust
After touring with the psychedelic likes of Gonjasufi, Amon Tobin and Shpongle, a more human and emotionally expressive element has burrowed its way into Lor... Read more »| 19 Jun 2012 -
Live Music
Com Truise @ The Captain's Rest, Glasgow, 12 Jun
Whichever Gods oversee electronics and connector cables are not smiling kindly on support act Cru Servers tonight, although hints of squelchy acid bass and s... Read more »| 18 Jun 2012 -
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Miaoux Miaoux – Light of the North
Perhaps the most satisfying thing about Julian Corrie AKA Miaoux Miaoux's hotly-anticipated Chemikal Underground debut is the timelessness of his hook-fi... Read more »| 18 Jun 2012 -
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Various Artists – Blam Lord's Quest
A 49-track heartfelt tribute to classic video games from underground electronic label Aural Sects Read more »| 13 Jun 2012 -
Live Music
The Field / Konx-om-Pax @ Glasgow Art School Union, 9 June
In theory, Glasgow’s Konx-om-Pax is a fitting opener for The Field’s hypnotic, loop-based minimal electronica; Tom Scholefield’s mixture... Read more »| 12 Jun 2012