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
Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Because of the often protracted periods between albums, a new Explosions record always brings with it a mixture of expectation and trepidation, but this&hell... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Expectations in the rock fraternity surrounding Wasting Light, the seventh long player from Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters, have been reaching fever pitch. ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Cold Cave – Cherish the Light Years
The follow-up to 2009’s acclaimed debut Love Comes Close sees the New York-based Cold Cave continue to hone their addictive, irrepressible take on 80s ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Alexi Murdoch – Towards the Sun
Recorded predominately in a single night, Towards the Sun is the kind of neo-folk album that causes Pitchfork writers to suffer terminal priapisms. Murdoch p... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Glasvegas – EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\
So here we go again, the difficult flipside to the great debut, as inevitable as glorious Scottish sporting failure. Euphoria and heartbreak, right e... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Weedeater – Jason... The Dragon
If there’s one thing Weedeater are, it’s reliable. Well, that and loud. Then again, so are dozens of other sludge bands, but they just don’... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011
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letlive – Fake History
The post-hardcore/screamo tag wasn’t always a negative one. It used to be applied to bands who displayed an excess of energy that happened to be expres... Read more »| 24 Mar 2011 -
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Bearsuit – The Phantom Forest
Bearsuit are one of the last bands you'd associate with maturity, but that is nonetheless what the Norwich indie-electro outfit seem to be grappling with on ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
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Roddy Woomble – The Impossible Song & Other Songs
Picking up where 2006’s My Secret Is My Silence left off, Roddy Woomble’s second solo effort sees him travelling further into folky territory. Wh... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
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Tindersticks – Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009
Over two decades, Nottingham’s Tindersticks have won hearts and minds with their idiosyncratic brand of brooding elegance, while across the channel, Cl... Read more »| 23 Mar 2011 -
Live Music
The Twilight Singers @ The Arches, 19 March
Tonight’s support, the London-based Bookhouse Boys are something of a conundrum. The voice of Catherine Turner – at times tacit and tender, at ot... Read more »| 22 Mar 2011 -
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The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
Not a year down the line, The Vaccines have been joyously swashing in the sickly sweet juices of hype. Elevated to dizzying heights since landing third place... Read more »| 22 Mar 2011 -
Live Music
The Phantom Band @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17 Mar
For a group in some mild form of ascension, a chance to see The Phantom Band in some cosy confines on your doorstep is not something you’d want to miss... Read more »| 21 Mar 2011 -
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The Son(s) – The Son(s)
Dogs, Boys & Men is an odd way to kick off a record – a concoction of early nineties British indie rock and psychedelia with a touch of folk, but t... Read more »| 18 Mar 2011 -
Interviews
Nas Is Coming
As Nas prepares for a rare trip to Scotland with Damian Marley in tow, the legendary Queens MC talks family trees, working habits, and whether his contribution to Detox will see the light of day Read more »| 17 Mar 2011