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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Reviews
Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu - Mystery Spot / Black January
For a maverick known for working on the fringe of several music genres (including techno, jazz, and industrial rock), and building his own instruments from s... Read more »| 23 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
The Lights - The Fair Weather Travelling Companion
It’s difficult not to be slightly worried for the safety of Birmingham quintet The Lights. They are slap bang in the middle of the road with latest EP,... Read more »| 23 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
GZA / Genius @ ABC, 12 Nov
Glasgow - you'd best protect ya neck, because the Wu-Tang Clan's most potent lyrical swordsman - the GZA (aka The Genius) - is about to tear up the ABC with ... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
If you’re looking for a sonic documentation of schizophrenia (outside of Wesley Willis, RIP), you need look no further than Skeletal Lamping. In the mi... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Okkervil River at Òran Mór, 9 Nov Preview
Penners of The Stage Names return to Ecosse Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Bloc Party @ Barfly, 19 Oct
Indie heroes fail to disappoint at tiny Glasgow show Read more »| 22 Oct 2008
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Live Music
Ladytron @ ABC, 26 Nov
Ladytron’s last Scottish show saw the band battling not only the elements and a crowd subdued by drizzle at the Hydro Connect festival, but also a mid-... Read more »| 22 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Jenny Lewis @ QMU, 18 Oct
Her diminutive form weaves awkwardly among her band like a newborn deer, but Jenny Lewis’s solo efforts away from Rilo Kiley have a bluesy, brassy solidity t... Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Night Marchers @ Captain's Rest, 18 Oct
John “Speedo” Reis' golden touch doesn't appear to have deserted him yet. Along with fellow ex-Hot Snakes Gar Wood and Jason Kournikos, he again ... Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
Interviews
Things Get A Little Fucked Up
As Fucked Up's second full-length LP begins to ooze out of speakers across the land, Jorge Marticorena has a nice little chat with frontman Pink Eyes about punk rock, self-induced injuries, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and working out Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
The Sontaran Experiment
A work of competent belligerence Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Bombay Bicycle Club @ Barfly, 23 Oct
In an effort to equate cutting-edge music with, um, jeans, Levi’s has been picking up-and-coming bands to hit the road on their Ones to Watch tour. The... Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
As the days shorten and thoughts turn to best of year lists, Los Campesinos! pose a problem by releasing We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed mere months after the... Read more »| 20 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Mt Wilson Repeater - Mt Wilson Repeater
Debut solo album from Radar Bros' Jim Putnam Read more »| 20 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
We Rock Like Girls Don't - Violence
Full of attitude and ready to make a point that perhaps isn’t particularly relevant anymore Read more »| 20 Oct 2008