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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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 -
VideosAndrew 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 MusicNorthwest 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
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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 MusicScottish 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 -
Festivals
Scot:Lands Hogmanay line-up announced
Miaoux Miaoux, Idlewild's Roddy Woomble and C Duncan will all feature at the Scot:Lands pop-up festival at Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations. Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Reviews
Lanterns On The Lake – Beings
Beyond the success of 2013's Until the Colours Run, Newcastle's Lanterns On The Lake continue to maintain their commitment to producing high quality sou... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Reviews
Floating Points – Elaenia
As one of the well-known faces of Shoreditch’s now defunct Plastic People nightclub (further alumni include Caribou and Four Tet), Floating Points&rsqu... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Live Music
HEALTH / Apostille @ Stereo, Glasgow, 26 Oct
It’s just gone quarter to eight in a half packed Stereo on a dreary Glasgow night, but looking at the hyperactive Michael Kasparis it might as well be ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
NewsDetour Scotland announce 6th birthday gigs
Detour Scotland have unveiled details of Sixfest, a six-day series of gigs across Scotland featuring Happy Meals, Bdy_Prts and more. Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Reviews
FOUND – Cloning
Over their various iterations, Edinburgh collective FOUND have reshaped and overhauled their sound accordingly. Now down to a bare-bones two piece after the ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015 -
Reviews
Disappears – Low: Live In Chicago
Philip Glass aside, why on earth would anyone choose to take on Bowie’s Low? There is context: the opening of last year’s Bowie exhibition i... Read more »| 02 Nov 2015