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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FestivalsIn Pictures: Brew at the Bog, Bogbain Farm, 4 May
Brew at the Bog, 4 May Some pictures from this years sold out Brew at the Bog festival at Bogbain farm in Inverness. Photography by Emily Wyld... Read more »| 17 May 2013 -
NewsThe Bulletin: T Break Lineup Announced | 17 May
In today's Bulletin, the News Badger brings you an in-depth guide to the T Break stage at T in the Park, including indie-electro darlings Machines In Heaven, hip-hop phenomenons Hector Bizerk, garage rock duo Honeyblood, and majestic post-rockers Vasa Read more »| 17 May 2013 -
News
The Bulletin: Arts & Culture News | 15 May
In today's Bulletin: Lord Quas honoured by city of LA; Jay-Z's time travelling exploits; the return of dead holographic rappers; new music from CSS, The Pictish Trail, Holy Ghost!, Baauer and more; plus the latest festival news Read more »| 15 May 2013 -
Live MusicSounds from the Other City, Various Venues (Salford), 5 May
From psych rock howled out over a United-Chelsea game to a goth samba band in the street, two intrepid explorers enjoy the inherently bonkers offerings at Salford's ninth annual DIY all-dayer, Sounds from the Other City Read more »| 14 May 2013 -
Interviews
Summit Special: An Interview with Stephen Pastel
With a new album imminent, we chat to Stephen McRobbie of The Pastels about the record’s long history, and the band’s future Read more »| 14 May 2013 -
Live Music
Deafheaven / The Secret / No Island @ Ivory Blacks, 7 May
No Island's simplistic approach to aggressive music is at odds with the heavily textured nature of our headliners, but these local noisemakers aren't fazed; ... Read more »| 13 May 2013
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ReviewsFirst Impressions: Daft Punk's Random Access Memories
We take a listen to this year's most hyped and anticipated album, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, featuring guest appearances from Giorgio Moroder, Julian Casablancas and Nile Rodgers, among others Read more »| 13 May 2013 -
Reviews
Brazos – Saltwater
Since his 2009 debut Phosphorescent Blues, Martin Crane (who performs as Brazos, perhaps to avoid being confused with Frasier’s pop) has relocated... Read more »| 13 May 2013 -
Reviews
Tricky – False Idols
In many ways a return to the dynamics of his first (and best) album Maxinquaye, False Idols pairs Tricky's distinctive, half-whispered vocals with the mellif... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
Reviews
Mount Kimbie – Cold Spring Fault Less Youth
After kickstarting the post-dubstep sound on Crooks & Lovers, Mount Kimbie have turned their attention towards stranger sounds and more challenging ... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
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Sparrow and the Workshop – Murderopolis
Since their first EP dropped four years ago, Sparrow and the Workshop have stacked up the accolades for a sound that, in lesser hands, would border on pastic... Read more »| 09 May 2013 -
Interviews
New Old Space: Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum in interview
Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum talks navigating nature – human and otherwise – in a bit-rate world Read more »| 08 May 2013 -
ReviewsAlice in Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
If 2009’s Black Gives Way to Blue was about legitimising the resurgence of Alice in Chains whilst eulogising the irreplaceable Layne Staley, ... Read more »| 08 May 2013 -
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Woodenbox – End Game
They may have undergone a minor rebranding since Home and the Wild Hunt (having re-dropped ‘…And a Fistful of Fivers’ from their... Read more »| 08 May 2013 -
Reviews
The Pastels – Slow Summits
Slow Summits is being billed by some as The Pastels’ first album in sixteen years – a timescale that only fits if you discount their 2003 The Las... Read more »| 08 May 2013