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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ReviewsJK Flesh – Posthuman
Justin K. Broadrick's genre-hopping tendencies have been well documented across a multitude of projects: aside from his industrial metal roots in Godflesh,... Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
InterviewsMalcolm Middleton talks Human Don't Be Angry: "The less lyrics and singing for me just now, the better"
Malcolm Middleton explains the premise behind his Human Don't Be Angry alter-ego and the lengths he'll go to have a bit of fun Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
InterviewsThe Singing Detective: Murdering Songs, Reviving Television
Following its resurrection on BBC4, Trembling Bells' Alex Neilson speaks in praise of The Singing Detective Read more »| 05 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsBattles – Dross Glop
Ignoring Gui Borrato's soulless piano loops and the Field's disappointingly unpromisingly standard hi-hat factory marathon (hint: skip tracks 1 and 2), Dro... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
ReviewsRufus Wainwright – Out of the Game
Rufus Wainwright has been overtly stating of late that being a highly regarded yet somewhat esoteric pop star isn’t good enough. He wants to drop the... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
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Death Grips – The Money Store
The anticipation surrounding the major-label debut of Death Grips is fevered, to say the least. The Money Store does not disappoint. The significant change... Read more »| 04 Apr 2012
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Interviews
Russian Circles vs Pelican
Two of Chicago's finest 'post-metal' heavyweights sit down to tell us lies about Brian May Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
Live Music
Record Store Day in Scotland
On Saturday 21 April thousands of independently owned music stores across the world will celebrate 'Record Store Day.’ Just over a dozen independent record shops in Scotland will participate. We run through some of the special events and releases planned Read more »| 04 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen – April 2012
With some of the most generous Dirty Dozen scores dished out in recent memory, it takes a lot to displease Martin John Henry and the Permanent Skelfs Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Live Music
Feist / M. Ward @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 27 March
With nothing but an acoustic guitar and a voice of honey and dust, M. Ward saunters onstage alone. As he solemnly paces the boards, it’s easy to appre... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
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The Cornshed Sisters – Tell Tales
Sisters in the sorority rather than sibling sense, Jennie, Cath, Liz and Marie take turns to sing lead on debut album Tell Tales, and though the sparse inst... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
Maps & Atlases – Beware and Be Grateful
In just two albums Chicago’s Maps & Atlases have experienced the kind of transformation few bands ever encounter. From the epileptic math rock sq... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
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Tomat – 01-06 June
The solo debut from Italy’s Davide Tomat is a more conceptual, abstract affair than anything his other projects N.A.M.B. and Niagara have produced. S... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Reviews
Profisee – From All Angles
Profisee has been incredibly prolific in the years since the Scotland Yard Emcees went their separate ways, working with a literal who's who of electronic ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2012 -
Interviews
Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman: "The world's on a war footing"
Jaz Coleman speaks his mind on 2012, the trouble with modern Britain and the enduring power of Killing Joke Read more »| 02 Apr 2012