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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PlaylistsMachine Head: Ten Ton Hammers
Drummer Dave McClain rolls out a top five tribute to the fathers of his style Read more »| 01 Dec 2011 -
ReviewsMark de Clive-Lowe – Renegades
Vaguely pitched as a 40 minute sketch of contemporary globetrotting club music, Mark de Clive-Lowe's ninth studio album is an assuredly well-travelled affair... Read more »| 30 Nov 2011 -
Opinion
Albums of the Year (#10): Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
Our Music team cried and dragged their heels at the idea of ranking favourites, then remembered that everybody loves a bloody good list. For your delectation, The Skinny humbly presents a document of the fine records you might have missed in 2011 Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Opinion
Hero Worship: King Creosote
Fence Records boss Johnny Lynch, AKA The Pictish Trail, applauds his best pal Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
White Denim – Last Day Of Summer
As numerous box sets and compilations of outtakes testify, collections recorded in unusual contexts – external to official sessions – can often r... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Dan Mangan – Oh Fortune
With Oh Fortune – the follow up to 2009’s Nice, Nice, Very Nice which largely brought the Canadian singer songwriter to the attention o... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011
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ReviewsThe Cure – Bestival Live 2011
There are several excellent live documents of The Cure, from the classic 1988 film The Cure In Orange to the more recent reissue of Entreat (which solely rel... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Interviews
Machine Head: "We feel like a new band in this line-up”
As Machine Head mark their 20th anniversary, Dave McClain talks fresh starts, critical missteps and diabolical cocktails Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Butcher the Bar – For Each a Future Tethered
For Each a Future Tethered does everything a second album should, evoking its predecessor’s blueprint whilst comfortably improving on it. On his follow... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Thee American Revolution – Buddha Electrostorm
Although active since 2004, this frazzled psych duo – comprised of Craig Morris, and The Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider – didn’t... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Pusha T – Fear of God II: Let Us Pray
Pusha T, the younger half of seminal Virginia hip-hop duo Clipse, has been making a conscious move towards the mainstream arena in his own right, as even a c... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – December 2011
The Skinny likes its metal like we don't like our weather – harsh, uncompromising, brutal – and although we're unlikely to be kept pleased by the... Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
Interviews
Dead Boy Robotics: Tales of the Future
Edinburgh trio Dead Boy Robotics count Blade Runner as a pivotal influence, enjoy a bit of Xbox Live and have written a funk ode to the Jaffa Cake. A band with these credentials should be celebrated – we have a word as their debut finally touches down Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Interviews
Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley: "Metal can be absurd and also really profound"
The man who accidentally leaked our January 2011 cover on his blog in the middle of last December brings The Skinny’s year (and his band’s catalogue) full circle. Enter Stephen O’Malley of progressive monoliths Sunn O))) Read more »| 28 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Josh T. Pearson @ Òran Mór, 22 November
Those who have encountered Josh T. Pearson’s solo debut Last of the Country Gentlemen – or, indeed, the psychedelic apocalypticism of his previou... Read more »| 28 Nov 2011