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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ReviewsGhostpoet – Some Say I So I Say Light
A progression is evident on Ghostpoet's sophomore album – where Peanut Butter Blues... was more a scattergun of influences and styles, Some Say I ... Read more »| 01 May 2013 -
ReviewsThe National – Trouble Will Find Me
Album number six is a worthy addition to The National's pristine oeuvre Read more »| 01 May 2013 -
ReviewsThe Dillinger Escape Plan – One Of Us Is The Killer
The Dillinger Escape Plan's fifth LP might not grip listeners with anything quite so visceral as throat-grabbing past staples like Fix Your Face or Panasonic... Read more »| 01 May 2013 -
ReviewsDeco Child – Skinless
Alex Lloyd aka Deco Child garnered rave reviews in 2012 for early singles S&G and Pray. While S&G flirted intelligently with blistering micro-house a... Read more »| 01 May 2013 -
Playlists
Under the Influence: Big Daddy Kane
A ten-track selection from veteran MC Big Daddy Kane, taking us back to the all-star golden age of the Juice Crew and Cold Chillin' Records Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Interviews
Death, Theft, and Four-Eyed Freaks: 25 Years of Mudhoney
As influential Seattle legends Mudhoney see in their silver anniversary, Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne grills Mark Arm on stealing from other bands, how best to use the internet, and his own ultimate demise Read more »| 30 Apr 2013
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Live Music
Scotland Gig Highlights – May 2013
May offers a diverse range of musical treats, from the intense post-punk of Savages to the lo-fi rock aesthetics of Dirty Beaches; not to mention outdoor and indoor festival fun at Kelburn Castle and Stag & Dagger Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Live Music
Church of Noise – May 2013
From eerie folk to avant-punk, Scotland's underbelly is rife with esoteric treats in the coming weeks Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Live Music
O2 Love Music Column – May 2013
The month of May kicks off at the O2 with a night of old-school hip hop. Former Juice Crew affiliates Big Daddy Kane and Masta Ace will b... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – May 2013
We might be grinning at spring finally having sprung, but May in the Northwest promises a live calendar for all outlooks – from the homely tones of Phosphorescent to the squall of Metz, and from a woozy Vondelpark to a confrontational Mykki Blanco Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Reviews
Deerhunter – Monomania
Having operated amongst a mire of genres within their self-proclaimed ‘ambient punk’ label, fans of Atlanta quintet Deerhunter should hold no tru... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
ReviewsThirty Pounds of Bone – I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs of Where
I Cannot Sing You Here, But for Songs of Where is Johnny Lamb’s third album as Thirty Pounds of Bone, and its title is evocatively apt. As Lamb si... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Reviews
Sam Amidon – Bright Sunny South
A folk singer cast from an old-fashioned mould, Sam Amidon rearranges and repurposes songs from the ages, his albums to date principally reinterpreting hymns... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Reviews
Saltland – I Thought it Was Us But it Was All of Us
Rebecca Foon is in some ways the archetypal Constellation artist, a Montreal-based cellist who has previously played in Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Set Fire To ... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013 -
Reviews
Various Artists – Grime 2.0
Big Dada's sprawling, two-disc grime compilation aims to bring the focus back onto the producers and beat-makers of the scene, and give them due credit for p... Read more »| 30 Apr 2013