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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InterviewsCut the Slack: Words with Courtney Barnett
With her profile rising rapidly, Courtney Barnett's debut album has finally seen the light of day. She tells us about finding fascination in the plain ol' ordinary... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Reviews
Thomas Truax – Jetstream Sunset
The Dr Seuss of pop returns. With The Hornicator (the home-made assemblage of various instruments and components that drives his off-beat – in both sen... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
ReviewsFöllakzoid – III
III promises more of the same for Chilean ‘cosmic music’ band Föllakzoid, masters of the mantric ten-minute krautrock groove. However, this ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2015 -
Interviews
Whisky in the Water: Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard Interviewed
The Death Cab For Cutie frontman on surviving breaks and staying publicly personal for the band's eighth album Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Live Music
Nothing Ever Happens Here: Broken Records / Garden Of Elks / Fuzzystar @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 27 Mar
Can’t fault the folks behind Nothing Ever Happens Here for their noble intention to reignite the Edinburgh live music scene; enthusiastic cheers please... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
ReviewsBop English – Constant Bop
At first glance Constant Bop just looks like a sixties pastiche. From the pastel-washed cover to the cheesey title, this could pass for a lost Tim Buckl... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015
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Live MusicSleater-Kinney @ Manchester Albert Hall, 24 March
This most potent of returns finally reaches the UK and manifests itself in a performance of extreme emotion: an experience that leaves both band and aud... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell
If 2010’s The Age Of Adz was Sufjan Stevens' bombastic all-action space opera, then Carrie & Lowell is his intimate, stripped-back, soul-barin... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Young Fathers – White Men Are Black Men Too
Young Fathers' White Men Are Black Men Too is a gargantuan, fearless record. It’s a celebration, a rebuttal, a call to action; a dance party that won&r... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Videos
Hector Bizerk – 'Skin & Bone' (in session at SxSW)
Glasgow hip-hop quartet Hector Bizerk took time out from their heavy gig schedule at the recent South by Southwest festival to play us an acoustic versi... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Villagers – Darling Arithmetic
Even the briefest scan of Conor O’Brien’s upcoming tour schedule screams – sorry, whispers – ‘intimate venues’ and sure e... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Toro Y Moi – What For?
Is Chazwick Bundick – aka Toro Y Moi – going back in time? His 2010 debut Causers of the This, a key milestone in the risibly-named &ls... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Nadine Shah – Fast Food
Nadine Shah's follow up to 2013's Love Your Dum and Mad (applause for the title alone) confirms a vision that her debut could only hint at. That opening shot... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Reviews
Garden Of Elks – A Distorted Sigh
‘Thrash-pop,’ they call it, although Scotland’s Garden Of Elks favour something a little more subtle than Kerry King-style shredding. Drawi... Read more »| 31 Mar 2015 -
Festivals
PINS, Horsebeach, O>L>A join Dot to Dot line-up
All-female four-piece PINS, Mancunian rockers Horsebeach and dream-pop pair O>L>A have been added to the line-up for the Dot to Dot festival in Ma... Read more »| 30 Mar 2015