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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InterviewsThe Mountain Goats' John Darnielle on Beat the Champ
As The Mountain Goats return to UK shores to promote wrestling-themed concept album Beat The Champ, John Darnielle tells us about morality and inspiration Read more »| 05 Nov 2015 -
Live Music
East India Youth / PIXX @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 28 Oct
Hannah Rodgers, recent 4AD signing operating as PIXX, opens our Wednesday escape with her dreamy, folksy psychedelia. Backed by a guitarist and another singe... Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Live MusicJosh T Pearson @ Liverpool Music Week, 28 Oct
Four years on from his own second coming, Josh T Pearson is launching another resurrection in the unlikely but strangely apt surroundings of Liverpool’s Scandinavian Seamen’s Church. Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Live MusicJoanna Newsom @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 31 Oct
At first glance, the Albert Hall’s stage is looking awfully bare tonight. The harp sitting dead centre is enough to remind us who’s in town, but there’s no backdrop – just the wood-paneled wall of the old chapel’s altar. Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
FestivalsMogwai set for Edinburgh International Festival 2016
Mogwai will perform their score for Mark Cousins' documentary Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise at next year's Edinburgh International Festival, ... Read more »| 04 Nov 2015 -
Reviews
Maserati – Rehumanizer
If there’s one thing Maserati’s latest record can do it’s guarantee you a speeding fine. The six tracks that make up Rehumanizer are the ki... Read more »| 04 Nov 2015
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Interviews
A Tribe Called Quest revisit People's Instinctive Travels
Ahead of the re-release of People's Instinctive Travels, A Tribe Called Quest's founding quarter discuss resolving beats, rhymes and strife Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Interviews
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) interview: Trust your Gut
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) frontman Nic Offer details the self-scrutiny, silliness and tally charts which went into making rambunctious sixth album As If Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Interviews
Oneohtrix Point Never on Garden of Delete
Daniel Lopatin reminisces over alt metal, and conjures up a parallel universe known as Garden of Delete. Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Videos
Andrew Wasylyk - Last of the Loved: Video Premiere
Watch the video for Last of the Loved by Andrew Wasylyk, the new project from Andrew Mitchell of Idlewild and The Hazey Janes. The track is taken from ... Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – November 2015
Remember remember, er, all of November, because it's full of musical dynamite, from Jenny Hval to Ex Hex and the return of MONEY Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
Interviews
David Mackenzie on Starred Up Film Music Reworked
On its release last year, David Mackenzie’s Starred Up turned heads and earned plaudits for its intense portrayal of prison life. Now the film’s score has undergone the remake treatment, Mackenzie explains why he's still immersed in the music Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Reviews
Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete
If 2013's R Plus Seven was a landscape of delicate synthwork and angelic choral sounds glossing over a murky atmosphere, then Garden of Delete flips the... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Reviews
CocoRosie – Heartache City
How sad this is to see: ‘freak folk’ twosome CocoRosie, somehow missing their proverbial ‘spark’, struggling to show a pulse. Bianca ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Live Music
Scottish Gig Highlights – November 2015
Defy the dark days to take in the likes of Deerhunter, Slayer, Ibeyi, Zu and a double-whammy from Public Enemy and The Prodigy this November Read more »| 02 Nov 2015