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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Opinion2012: Scoring the End Times
Don't stress about whether the Mayan Prophecy will come to pass this year, think more about who might accidentally soundtrack the end of days... Read more »| 11 Jan 2012 -
FestivalsAwake On Foreign Shores: Trans Musicales 2011
In search of an alternative winter festival, our Music editor heads for Les Recontres Trans Musicales to find out how the French get down Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsAll the Saints – Intro To Fractions
This second offering from Atlanta's All The Saints finds the band chin deep in psychedelic shoegaze. Like their debut, they continue to take cues from Englis... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Chris Devotion and the Expectations – Amalgamation & Capital
Encounter Amalgamation & Capital anonymously and you might presume it a greatest hits rather than a debut, its no-nonsense new-wave suggesting a lost gen... Read more »| 10 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen – January 2012
Mike Palmer and Sean Smith of We Were Promised Jetpacks exercise diplomacy on the January singles Read more »| 09 Jan 2012 -
Interviews
Kathleen Edwards: A Soft Place To Land
Canadian chanteuse Kathleen Edwards finds a home in Bon Iver's Wisconsin studio Read more »| 09 Jan 2012
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Live Music
Live Music Highlights – January 2012
Combining electro, pop and house may be about as revolutionary as beans on toast but Edinburgh's Discopolis have arrived at a uniquely energising and euphori... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – January 2012
Aye, aye – so a new year means new beginnings, the kicking of old habits and the setting of goals, but let's just put the unrealistic stuff aside for t... Read more »| 06 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend
Having impressed with four eclectic EPs (most notably last year's Gone Blind) and stirred significant buzz at 2011’s SXSW, Porcelain Raft release debut... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. – Area 52
The latest twist in Mexican acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela's unpredictable career – which has taken in folk, Latin and rock styles, and most recently ... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Francois & The Atlas Mountains – E Volo Love
Saintes-born Francois Marry has been on Scottish radars for some time already, as a continental cousin of Fence (who released previous album Plaine Inondable... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Reviews
Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
The fruits of a few years' absence and an ongoing collaboration with Bon Iver figurehead Justin Vernon, Voyageur presents a more developed, confident, and ar... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Live Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Celtic Connections
Beginning on 19 Jan, Glasgow's annual folk, roots and world music festival isn't just about forcing school kids into concert halls and bigging-up fiddle musi... Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
Interviews
The Twilight Sad: “We never want to remake the same record just because it’s pleased some people”
Having lost a member but survived the fall-out, The Twilight Sad have come out fighting with a stripped back, propulsive third album. In celebration we caught up with them for a chat, a victory pint and a ploughman’s Read more »| 05 Jan 2012 -
InterviewsDiscopolis: Into the Rainbow Vein
Having started life as a Bloc Party tribute act a few short years ago, Edinburgh's Discopolis have since morphed into a band that the world can embrace. The Skinny joins them on tour in Malta Read more »| 05 Jan 2012