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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VideosJulian Casablancas and Daft Punk team up for new Instant Crush video
One of the standout cuts from one of the biggest albums of the year, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (we gave you our first thoughts on the album back in ... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
NewsWarpaint share new song 'Biggy'
Psychedelic LA indie-rockers Warpaint are presently lining up their self-titled, long-awaited sequel to 2010 debut The Fool – scheduled for r... Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Interviews
Baubles, Labels, and Sliding Doors: Kid Canaveral interview Edwyn Collins
After a banner year which saw the release of his eighth studio album, Understated, Edwyn Collins invites Kid Canaveral's David MacGregor and Kate Lazda to his London studio to muse on the festive season, independence, and how he could've ran the internet Read more »| 09 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2013 (#1): Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus (ATP)
Benjamin Power and Andrew Hung’s third record saw them ascend to the very top of Space Mountain Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2013 (#2): Steve Mason – Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time (Double Six)
Across a year of austerity budgets, fracking controversies and seemingly endless state surveillance revelations, the anger and frustration that structures&nb... Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2013 (#3): Factory Floor – Factory Floor (DFA)
Combining industrial noise, stripped techno and disco and driving analogue synth-sounds in their incendiary live performances, this year Factory Floor nailed their first studio album. The band's Nik Void talks tactics Read more »| 06 Dec 2013
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NewsThe Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 6 December
Spotify explains its new deal for artists; the science of Daft Punk's helmets; a live Nine Inch Nails concert; new music from LuckyMe, Nick Cave, Jon Hopkins, David Bowie, Factory Floor, Com Truise and Devendra Banhart, and much more Read more »| 06 Dec 2013 -
OpinionThe Albums of 2013 (#4): The National – Trouble Will Find Me (4AD)
When his wife Joy Davidson died after three years of marriage, C.S. Lewis recorded his grief in a series of journals, published pseudonymously in the early 1... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Live Music
Casual Sex / Halfrican @ Nice N Sleazy, 22 November
The urgency of Halfrican’s surf-punk sound is in stark contrast to the laidback beachware they wear on stage, despite the Baltic-like conditions o... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Live Music
Arctic Monkeys @ The SSE Hydro, 21 November
You can take the boy out of High Green… and, given nearly a decade of writing guitar hits and amassing a crowd big enough to fill Glasgow’s 13,0... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Interviews
Janet Weiss reflects on Sleater-Kinney, Wild Flag, and 20 years of Quasi
With Sleater-Kinney still on hiatus, and Wild Flag no more, Janet Weiss explains why playing with Quasi in the here and now remains her day job of choice Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2013 (#5): CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe (Virgin / Goodbye)
“A lot of electronic bands these days, not wanting to name names, they shy away from the melody, shy away from the song and it becomes all about how th... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Opinion
The Albums of 2013 (#6): Hookworms – Pearl Mystic (Gringo)
The aftermath of Pearl Mystic has been one of change and decisions for Hookworms' vocalist MJ Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Live Music
Baths / Swallows Fly Low @ Sneaky Pete's, 25 November
A Krakow native now residing in Edinburgh, Swallows Fly Low graces the stage first of all tonight, quickly proving how suitable a support act he is. Oth... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013 -
Videos
Wooden Shjips release new music video for 'Everybody Knows'
Wooden Shjips release a new video for Everybody Knows, from their recent album Back To Land. The video was directed by Austin Will, produced by Robbie Veltma... Read more »| 05 Dec 2013