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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InterviewsWe Are Augustines: Back from the Brink
Having penned a concept album based around family bereavement, The Skinny is surprised to find a New York trio happy to be just making music Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
InterviewsThe Big Pink: "We needed to create a different energy"
As The Big Pink trade in their explosive debut's distortion, Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze tell us why their live show will be all change on Valentine's Day Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Live Music
Wild Flag / Peggy Sue @ Òran Mór, 30 January
Both of tonight’s acts, while ostensibly steeped in well-trodden approaches to rock, manage to infuse their music with bursts of startling vitality. ... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Damien Jurado – Maraqopa
Damien Jurado’s last album was a game changer. Having spent 15 years churning out folk/folk-rock albums that were sometimes excellent, but otherwise sh... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
ReviewsLapalux – When You're Gone EP
Recent Brainfeeder releases, such as the superlative funk and jazz of Thundercat and the forceful Paradise Garage tribute of Martyn's Ghost People, have adde... Read more »| 06 Feb 2012 -
Live Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Errors
It’s one thing to be a great band but it’s quite another to make a great record. Definitive statements can become something of an albatross aroun... Read more »| 03 Feb 2012
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Reviews
The Dirty Dozen – February 2012
Remember Remember speak their minds on the February singles Read more »| 03 Feb 2012 -
ReviewsCrocus – Our Memories Dress Me in A Dead Lust
At times, progressive hardcore can be something of a joyless business. Hailing from Holy Roar Records, the same stable that gave us the excellent and refresh... Read more »| 03 Feb 2012 -
Playlists
On the Bog: The GZA
Wu-Tang's Gary 'GZA' Grice tells us how he spends his downtime and stays tight-lipped on Liquid Swords II Read more »| 02 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Lambchop – Mr. M
At this stage, it’d be mad to expect sweeping changes from a new Lambchop record, and the loungy, intricate and patient Mr. M (Mr. Met until a libelous... Read more »| 02 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Shearwater – Animal Joy
Shearwater have come a long way from their origins as a humble side project for songwriters and former Austin roommates Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff. In t... Read more »| 02 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Windy and Carl – We Will Always Be
There’s something reassuring about a new Windy and Carl release: despite the music’s drifting, anti-material qualities, its tendency to slip thro... Read more »| 02 Feb 2012 -
Live Music
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster @ The 13th Note, 5 February
The works of Philip K. Dick interpreted as post-rock art metal: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster bring some heavy conceptual rock to Glasgow's 13th Note. Read more »| 01 Feb 2012 -
Reviews
Die Hard – Die Hard
Die Hard, impossible to Google without receiving a flurry of John McClane-based results, are borne of Glasgow label Halleluwah Hits, which also brought us th... Read more »| 01 Feb 2012 -
Live Music
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 29 January
A raucous troupe of misfit musicians specialising in frenzied polkas, gypsy-punk, “vulgar jazz” and such like, playing to an all-seated venue sta... Read more »| 01 Feb 2012