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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Interviews
The Vaselines: Sex With An X, Track-By-Track
Although formed in the mid 80s, The Vaselines would become a heavyweight cult concern in the decades to follow. Founders Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee were a romantic item, and when they split, so did the band. Twenty years on, they're back with a new album, the playfully titled Sex With An X. Here Eugene (with suitably cheeky interjections from Frances) talks us through the it Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Laki Mera – Clutter EP
Trip-hop may be playing its last down-tempo notes before finally kicking the bucket, but its spirit will live on in the sound of Laki Mera. The panor... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – September 2010
September's gig schedule is completely stacked, and NYC posse Cymbals Eat Guitars will set the bar high at Glasgow Stereo on 4 Sep. With a fantastic debut un... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Tricky - Mixed Race
Like various associates in the mid-90s trip-hop scene, Tricky has struggled to develop his style beyond his first couple of great albums. Now onto his ninth,... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Interpol – Interpol
For a band that sounds as though it’s been dredged from the murkiest depths of the Hudson River, the imperially dark Interpol have had surprising comme... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody – I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years
Having started his career back in ’84 with Shake Appeal – who would ultimately morph in to UK ‘shoegrunge’ stalwarts Swervedriver &nd... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010
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Reviews
The Vaselines – Sex With An X
It’s not a record-breaker, but a twenty-year gap between albums warrants comment; to put it in context, a wall segmented Berlin last time The Vaselines... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – September 2010
As a piss-poor summer gives way to the elemental gloom of the Autumn, you can take some solace in that, riff-wise, a particularly intense couple of months li... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Beehoover – Concrete Catalyst
It’s testament to the chops on Beehoover that their skeletal line-up of one drummer and a bassist can produce such a deafening but pleasing rac... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Neon Circus – Don't Get Panicked
The news that James Murphy is retiring his LCD Soundsystem project has caused dismay in his fans, a group Neon Circus clearly count themselves firmly part of... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
The Charlatans – Who We Touch
Baggy survivors The Charlatans are back with their eleventh long-player. Once praised as a fine excuse to roll out the monkey-shuffling indie dance moves and... Read more »| 30 Aug 2010 -
Opinion
Arab Strap: An Introspection (Just For a Change)
As part of the celebration of their 15 years of existence, influential Glasgow label Chemikal Underground are re-releasing Arab Strap's first two albums. The... Read more »| 30 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
The Steals – Static Kingdom
The debut album from this Northern English quartet is so delicately poised it threatens to blow away on the slightest breeze; listening, you feel you have to... Read more »| 30 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Les Savy Fav – Root For Ruin
To be honest, it’s not even particularly surprising anymore – to learn that Les Savy Fav have recorded an excellent new album. They appar... Read more »| 30 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Helmet – Seeing Eye Dog
Yeah, OK, so it says Helmet on the packet but sooner or later you're going to have to face the fact that the band who blew your face off in the early 90s is ... Read more »| 30 Aug 2010