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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ReviewsSerengeti – Kenny Dennis LP
Serengeti's last LP for Anticon, C.A.R., had a refreshing sense of fun and humour to its loosely-scribbled hip-hop beats, with Jel and Odd Nosdam joining Ser... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Palms – Palms
Despite escalating popularity at the time they called it quits, there’s a feeling that ISIS – not wishing to "push past the point of a digni... Read more »| 05 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsDope Body survey June's singles
Prior to a night of fierce sweating, Baltimore noise-rockers (and March 'Track of the Month' champions) Dope Body try to muster some love for this month’s offerings, and debate whether or not that’s a marimba in there Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Live MusicStag & Dagger 2013: Glasgow, 18 May
Though its sights were initially set on a healthy mix of hotly tipped buzz bands and home-grown underdogs, Glasgow's annual Stag & Dagger festival has ti... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsCongo Natty – Jungle Revolution
The press release for Jungle Revolution states that Congo Natty (aka Rebel MC) ‘sees jungle as a re-boot of roots reggae for a new century&rs... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Tunng – Turbines
Frontiersmen and women of the ‘folktronica’ movement, Tunng have long blended gentle, well-rounded folk melodies with morsels of twee electronic ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013
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Interviews
Toro y Moi talks Arthur Russell and astral jazz
Over the course of three albums, Chaz Bundick – or Toro y Moi – has revealed himself as something of an anorak, drawing on everything from house to R'n'B. He talks to us about Arthur Russell and astral jazz, and bemoans our lack of modern-day pop auteurs Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Sigur Rós – Kveikur
Loose and roaring, Brennisteinn – the opening gambit of Sigur Rós' seventh studio album – is the sound of the band getting nasty. Beneath ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
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Poppy Ackroyd – Escapement
After an initial release last year, this 7-track album of multi-tracked piano, violin and field recordings from Hidden Orchestra collaborator Poppy Ackroyd g... Read more »| 04 Jun 2013 -
Interviews
5:14 Revisited: Malcolm Middleton reflects on his debut solo album
One time Arab Strap man Malcolm Middleton speaks about the re-release of his debut album, his ever maturing muse and falling foul of the Mayor of Falkirk Read more »| 03 Jun 2013 -
ReviewsJames Holden – The Inheritors
Having previously pushed the boundaries of techno on his 2006 debut, James Holden's long-awaited sophomore album delves even deeper into the rhythmic roots o... Read more »| 03 Jun 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 3 June
In today's Bulletin: New music from Fuck Buttons, Run the Jewels, Suede, Hodgy Beats and others; Boards of Canada listening party tonight; Glasow's Lisa O'Donnell wins Commonwealth Book Prize; and International Day of Slayer remembers Jeff Hanneman Read more »| 03 Jun 2013 -
Reviews
Bomb the Bass – In the Sun
Where 2008’s Future Chaos saw Bomb the Bass stripping away the clutter to deliver a sharp-edged, techno-tinged variant of their breakbeat/hip... Read more »| 03 Jun 2013 -
Live Music
How To Dress Well @ Leaf, Liverpool, 20 May
From the very beginning of tonight's gig, Tom Krell, aka ethereal R'n'B singer How To Dress Well, establishes his stage presence as a perfectionist with tend... Read more »| 03 Jun 2013 -
Interviews
"I was lost in the dark" – Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme in interview
As Queens of the Stone Age purge their doubts with the most serious album of their career, Josh Homme stops to count his midgets Read more »| 03 Jun 2013