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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ReviewsWhite Denim – Stiff
On Stiff, White Demin really put their backs in to it – infinite solos, myriad breakdowns, hooks on hooks on power chords and huge, brash intros..... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
ReviewsDamien Jurado – Visions of Us on the Land
The third entry in his informal Maraqopa trilogy – a string of rustic, lightly psychedelic records themed around an imaginary hippie commune &ndas... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Aidan Moffat – Where You’re Meant to Be
Recorded onstage in the musical hotbed that is Drumnadrochit, the companion piece to Paul Fegan’s new film sees Aidan and band on entertaining form, fu... Read more »| 03 Mar 2016 -
News
Frightened Rabbit share new video for Get Out
Frightened Rabbit have released the video for new single Get Out, taken from their forthcoming fifth LP Painting Of A Panic Attack. The new album, pro... Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
FestivalsCosmosis 2016: Anton Newcombe interviewed
Ahead of The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s appearance at Manchester’s Cosmosis festival later this month, we get to chat with the band’s hyperreal driving force. Well, we think we did... Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
ReviewsBob Mould – Patch the Sky
Having experienced a late career revival in recent years, Bob Mould returns in more reflective mood. No need to panic, Hüsker Dü fans: he&rsqu... Read more »| 02 Mar 2016
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Interviews
Right on Track: Introducing TRAAMS
Shouty punk three-piece TRAAMS tell The Skinny about harnessing the power of feedback, and being happy at home Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Kiran Leonard – Grapefruit
Kiran Leonard's clattering songscapes describe a jumbled, dreamy, scatterbrained lack of concentration. But this unfocused direction, for all its confusion, ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
Primal Scream – Chaosmosis
With its ersatz zeitgeisty commentary, the mish-mash title is, of course, a nightmare. Judge this one not by its cover but by electric lead single Where the ... Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
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Baauer – Aa
Since signing to LuckyMe in 2012, prodigal New York producer Baauer has enjoyed criticial acclaim, notably for his Dum Dum and ß EPs, but also for vari... Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
Festivals
Super Furry Animals join Festival No. 6 line-up
Super Furry Animals are among a batch of acts added to the bill for this year's Festival No.6 in North Wales. Read more »| 02 Mar 2016 -
Film
Couple in a Hole tops Restless Natives film line-up
The first film events for the inaugural Restless Natives festival in Glasgow's East End have been announced, including a special screening of Couple in ... Read more »| 01 Mar 2016 -
Interviews
John Reis on curating ATP with Drive Like Jehu
As Drive Like Jehu return to curate All Tomorrow's Parties in Manchester this April, we catch up with John 'Speedo' Reis to get the lowdown on the line-up. Read more »| 01 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
The Thermals – We Disappear
Following the action-packed amorality of 2013’s Desperate Ground, The Thermals’ latest effort finds Hutch Harris aiming the camera squarely at th... Read more »| 01 Mar 2016 -
Reviews
K-X-P – III (Part Two)
Formed from the darkest matter, the Finnish trio's latest completes a cycle that began with last year's III (Part One). Stark, ominous, unrelenting, it'... Read more »| 01 Mar 2016