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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Archie Bronson Outfit – Coconut
With 2006’s aptly titled Derdang Derdang, Archie Bronson Outfit hit a seemingly effortless groove of knuckle-bruising, country-soaked rock with... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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The Automatic - Tear the Signs Down
What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster, is it a monster? No, it's only the return of the rather pointless Welsh band behind one of the most annoyi... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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Sambassadeur - European
For all its sweeping strings and pop nous, Sambassadeur’s third album is an understated affair that initial listens might write off as underwhe... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Initially resembling an emo-Foals, Two Door Cinema Club discover unexpected range across their full length debut. Pierce the production sheen and the... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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Pavement - Quarantine the Past
Emerging amidst the Seattle-centric music scene of the early nineties, Pavement’s breakthrough album, Slanted and Enchanted, eschewed the guts and grit... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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Poostosh - Herbarium
Herbarium could be a forgotten gem of eastern European cinema; a three-hour epic about one old man's day-to-day struggles in a cold, unforgiving, Com... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010
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Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Following 2007’s The Midnight Organ Fight can hardly be described as a pressure-free endeavour. Frightened Rabbit’s often stark, heart-on-sleeve,... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
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The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
This radical opera crackles with genius and creativity, even if it does upset the traditionalists. Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
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Bomb The Bass - Back To Light
Tim Simenon, former poster boy of the DJ sampling revolution in the 1980s, has reinvented himself under the Bomb The Bass moniker with each successive album.... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
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Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Socio-political funk pioneer, revered poet, arguably one of the godfathers of the hip-hop scene, Gil Scott-Heron has suffered at the hands of addiction and i... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
News
RockNess 2010 @ Clune Farm, Dores, 11-13 Jun
Only five years have passed since Fatboy Slim first engaged some witty word play and introduced Loch Ness to camping for the beat-loving hedonist under the b... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
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Yeongene - Bonnie Gene
Two worlds collide on this first European release from South Korean chanteuse Yeongene. So there's the far eastern element, and there's a flavour of Glaswegi... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Live Music
Spoon @ King Tut's, 14 Feb
It pays to have influential friends. First White Rabbits acquire the production skills of Britt Daniel for second album It’s Frightening, then the Spoo... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
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Hot Chip @ HMV Picture House, 13 Feb
Hot Chip attract an unusual Saturday night audience blend: part muso, part fashionista, part clubber. So credit to support band Casiokids for appealing to al... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
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Charles Hayward @ CCA, 25 Mar
As one-third of influential vangardists This Heat, drummer/composer/singer Hayward reconsidered the experimentalism of krautrock by way of punk’s unequ... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010