Opinion
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Albums Of The Year
Albums of the Year (#4): PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
War poet may be the trickiest role of PJ Harvey's career Read more »| 02 Dec 2011 -
Albums Of The Year
Albums of the Year (#5): King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
With Diamond Mine King Creosote and Jon Hopkins proved that a bit of coastal charm can go for miles Read more »| 02 Dec 2011 -
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Albums of the Year (#6): Battles – Gloss Drop
Battles' Ian Williams and John Stanier look back on Gloss Drop – a triumph they never meant to go 'pop' Read more »| 02 Dec 2011 -
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Albums of the Year (#7): Death Grips – Exmilitary
Death Grips make rap dangerous again: more dangerous than it's ever been Read more »| 01 Dec 2011 -
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Albums of the Year (#8): Low – C'mon
Now in their eighteenth year, C'mon showed that Low have plenty left in the tank Read more »| 01 Dec 2011 -
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Albums of the Year (#10): Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
Our Music team cried and dragged their heels at the idea of ranking favourites, then remembered that everybody loves a bloody good list. For your delectation, The Skinny humbly presents a document of the fine records you might have missed in 2011 Read more »| 29 Nov 2011
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Opinion
Hero Worship: King Creosote
Fence Records boss Johnny Lynch, AKA The Pictish Trail, applauds his best pal Read more »| 29 Nov 2011 -
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Hero Worship: Thurston Moore
Idlewild's Rod Jones tips his hat to the man who inspired him to pick up a guitar in the first place Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Festivals
T Break: The Contenders
Concluding the annual hunt for the best unsigned talent that Scotland has to offer, just a handful of bands made the cut from over a thousand entrants to play the T Break stage at Balado this July. Here we present the final sixteen Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
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Hero Worship: Adam Ant
Long-standing new music champion Vic Galloway worships at the altar of Adam Ant Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
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Six Degrees of Julia Thirteen
Who knew that so much of Glasgow's rich modern musical lineage could be traced back to the constituent parts of just one band? Read more »| 29 Jun 2011 -
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Hero Worship: Ian Mackaye
Divorce's Andy Brown salutes a musician who refuses to compromise Read more »| 07 Jun 2011 -
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Hero Worship: Jeff Tweedy
Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison waxes lyrical on his admiration for Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy Read more »| 05 May 2011 -
Festivals
Kid Canaveral at SxSW: How the West was won and where it got us
Well, that was quite something. I’ve now got a proper-sized keyboard, so hopefully there’ll be less typos in this one [I’ve just read it ... Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
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The Proposition: Rebecca Frankenstein Black: or The Post-Modern Prometheus
The most ghastly thing about Friday is not the hideous auto-tuning, the stupefying lyrics or the gormless rap, it's the fact that it reminds us what a bunch of slack-jawed imbeciles we actually are Read more »| 07 Apr 2011