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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VideosM.I.A. x The Partysquad x KENZO release new video for Y.A.L.A.
Goddess inspired, neon, blacklight wildness in the colourful new video for Y.A.L.A. taken from M.I.A.'s latest album Matangi. Directed by Daniel Sannwald M... Read more »| 15 Nov 2013 -
VideosMusic Video Premiere: There Will Be Fireworks – Youngblood
There Will Be Fireworks release a new video for Youngblood, from their upcoming album The Dark, Dark Bright Read more »| 15 Nov 2013 -
Live MusicMount Kimbie / oOoOO @ SWG3, 8 November
Californian producer oOoOO took some bold risks on his debut album Without Your Love, contributing vocals to his own tracks for the first time, alongside col... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
Live Music
MONEY @ The Dancehouse, Manchester, 9 November
The last time this reviewer saw MONEY play it was in an unusual venue – the centuries-old, borderline dilapidated Platt Chapel in Fallowfield &nda... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
News
Death Grips drop new album Government Plates
Death Grips, the visionary, transgressive hip-hop group consisting of MC Ride, Flatlander and Zach Hill, today release another album via their Thirdworlds si... Read more »| 14 Nov 2013 -
Videos
RM Hubbert & Aidan Moffat – Live performance at Canongate 40: The Skinny Sessions
RM Hubbert and Aidan Moffat play a live version of Car Song, from Hubbert’s second solo album Thirteen Lost & Found. Recorded live at Canonga... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013
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Interviews
A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy
Mainstay of the resurgent Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell meditates on resurrection, organised religion and the trouble with social media... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters – Tomorrow Is Another Day
Following 2012's swooning Underrated Silence, Ulrich Schauss and his occasional Engineers bandmate, guitarist and producer Mark Peters, have produced another... Read more »| 13 Nov 2013 -
Videos
The Video Playlist: November 2013
An alternative map to our November issue's Music section... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Atom Tree – Tide of Thorns EP
The debut EP from Atom Tree, aka producer Shaun Canning, percussionist Michael Robertson, and sometime vocalist and songwriter Fergus Cook, of the band Disco... Read more »| 12 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Ubre Blanca – Polygon Mountain EP
Every track on Ubre Blanca's debut EP is a thrill in its own way, but it's the 12-minute epic title track which provides the biggest. The influences –&... Read more »| 11 Nov 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: New Music & Videos | 8 November
New this week: Videos from CHVRCHES, Deltron 3030, These New Puritans, Snoop Dogg, Tricky, Yoko Ono and others; new tracks by Audion, Zomby, Autre Ne Veut, Raekwon and more; plus trailers for Spike Lee's Old Boy remake, and much more! Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
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The Bulletin: Arts & Culture Roundup | 8 November
In this week's Bulletin: Pussy Riot singer goes missing in transit to Siberian prison camp; Dizzee Rascal slams Radio 1; GENERATION celebrates contemporary Scottish art; more Marvel superheroes coming to Netflix; a Gary Numan remix competition and more! Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about MMLP2 is the (admittedly scant) evidence that as an emcee, Eminem can still spit it hard with the best of the... Read more »| 08 Nov 2013 -
Reviews
Public Spaces – KP-LP
Generated in Glasgow from the collective efforts of Lewis Macdonald, double bassist Alastair Quietsch and a host of collaborators, this album takes the templ... Read more »| 07 Nov 2013