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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InterviewsIndy Rock: Mogwai talk zombies, Thatcher and the coming referendum
With new LP Rave Tapes out now on the band's own Rock Action label, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite and Barry Burns explain why, democratically speaking, five is a magic number Read more »| 07 Feb 2014 -
PlaylistsUnder the Influence: Katy B
From Lauryn Hill to the Lady of Rage, dancehall queen Katy B steers us through ten records by her favourite female rappers Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
News
bis return with new collection of Data Panik sessions
Bursting onto the rather trad and conservative Britpop scene in 1995 with the Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP, a dayglo blast of drum machine-powered, ultr... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
OpinionHero Worship: Chino Moreno salutes Mogwai
No stranger to their tinnitus inducing might, Chino Moreno of Deftones, ††† and Palms tips his bunnet to our February cover stars and claims they have unfinished business Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Reviews
Robbie Lesiuk – Nobody's Listening
Falkirk artist Robbie Lesiuk is best known as a former member of Y'all Is Fantasy Island, and for his ongoing collaborations with friend and former bandmate ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Playlists
Listen: Download two free compilations, featuring S-Type and Miaoux Miaoux
Download two free compilations featuring leading lights of the Glasgow electronic music scene, LuckyMe's S-Type, and Miaoux Miaoux Read more »| 06 Feb 2014
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Reviews
Tomorrow We Sail – For Those Who Caught the Sun in Flight
Gizeh Records is a paragon of consistency, not only in terms of the quality of its output but in the overlaps and similarities between those on its roster. W... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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A.R.C. Soundtracks – Archive: Volume One
Following in the footsteps of electronic artists like The Haxan Cloak and Raime, and the magisterial post-rock of Godspeed You! Black Emperor as closely as A... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsPoemss – Poemss
Showing a different side of Planet Mu mainstay Aaron Funk, better known as Venetian Snares, this collaboration with Toronto producer and vocalist Joanne Poll... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Reviews
Keel Her – Keel Her
While this self-titled collection is officially Keel Her’s debut album, Rose Keeler-Schäffeler is no debutant. Since 2011, the Brighton-based song... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
News
DMX to fight George Zimmerman?
In this week's weirdest news story, it emerges that rapper DMX will fight the acquitted killer of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
ReviewsLo-Fang – Blue Film
The debut album by LA's Matthew Hemerlein, aka Lo-Fang, sits comfortably alongside the neo-soul of James Blake, the spectral, ethereal hip-hop/R 'n' B of Twi... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Reviews
Let's Wrestle – Let's Wrestle
After two full doses of rewardingly ramshackle indie-rock (2009’s In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s and 2011’s Nursing Home), Let’s... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
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Nina Persson – Animal Heart
With A Camp having last borne fruit in 2009 and The Cardigans’ recording hiatus ongoing, Nina Persson’s debut solo record qualifies as something ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014 -
Reviews
Temples – Sun Structures
Psychedelic. There, it’s been said. This record is so unmistakably of the genre and of an era that you can’t avoid the word, but Temples’ h... Read more »| 06 Feb 2014