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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ReviewsBosnian Rainbows – Bosnian Rainbows
Former At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and Les Butcherettes founder Teri Gender Bender come from dist... Read more »| 21 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsLoki – Edging God Out
The old retirement-and-comeback trick is a hip-hop staple, so how has it worked out for Loki, one of Scotland's most lyrically gifted writers and rappers?&nb... Read more »| 20 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsAustra – Olympia
Kate Stelmanis is a classically trained former opera singer but on album number two, Olympia, her voice imparts drama for its very lack of rhapsody. It&... Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
Playlists
NETVERK Podcast: June 2013
Exploring the world of netaudio, the NETVERK podcast returns to The Skinny. This month's show features a more guitar-flecked playlist than the last episode, with tracks from Sonic Hearts Foundation, CRIM3S, and Beacon Read more »| 19 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Danny Brown @ The Arches, 15 June
Danny Brown's hyper-exaggerated caricature is in full effect tonight. From his mad-haired, gap-toothed appearance to his comically high-pitched voice, i... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsZomby – With Love
Excepting its mammoth run-time, With Love feels similar in both form and execution to Zomby's previous album, Dedication. This time the shadow... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013
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Live Music
The Stone Roses @ Glasgow Green, 15 June
Every reformed act must dance with their past one way or another, but today The Stone Roses rekindle history in a very specific way, revisiting the... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
Neil Young & Crazy Horse @ SECC, 13 June
It would be an understatement to bill Neil Young & Crazy Horse's first Glasgow date since 2001 as an extravagant return. As comically oversized ampl... Read more »| 18 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Sonic Hearts Foundation – Into Forever
Glasgow's Sonic Hearts Foundation claim to have three album's worth of material under their collective belt, and it shows – from the opening elect... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
"King Creosote and who??" was the cry from many a Scot when Anstruther's finest unveiled 2011's seminal collaborative work Diamond Mine. Largely unknown... Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 14 June
In today's Bulletin: Stuart Braithwaite on the benefit concert to save the Sighthill Stone Circle; new music from Beth Gibbons, Liars, Nigel Godrich and more; an interview with TNGHT's Lunice; the history of the Black Flag logo, plus the latest trailers Read more »| 14 Jun 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 12 June
Crowd-fund a Mo' Wax retrospective; Kraftwerk recording next LP; listen to Kveikur by Sigur Rós; goNORTH stage lineup announced for Wickerman Festival; plus music from James Holden, Black Sabbath, Poliça, David Lynch, Com Truise and more Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Live MusicFucked Up / Titus Andronicus / METZ, SWG3, 28 May
“Can we kill these lights, please?” METZ guitarist / vocalist Alex Edkins asks bluntly, rejecting unnecessary theatrics as the Canadian... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
μ-Ziq – Chewed Corners
Planet Mu founder and UK electronic music veteran Mike Paradinas returns with a new album under his revered μ-Ziq guise, his first under that moniker sinc... Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Interviews
Kamikaze Shoegaze: Sonic Hearts Foundation in interview
Rising stars of the Glasgow live scene, indie shoegazers Sonic Hearts Foundation tell us about their guerilla gigs, insane pedal arrays, and their new EP, Into Forever Read more »| 11 Jun 2013