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
Cypress Hill - Rise Up
“In 1991, an artist in Compton picked up Cypress Hill’s debut album. What he heard blew him away; the futuristic funk with a diehard dedication t... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Live Music
The Twilight Sad @ ABC, 2 April
Take A Worm For A Walk Week have the reputation of perverted lions – unsettling, dangerous - but tonight they’re eccentric puppy-dogs. They&rsquo... Read more »| 06 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Limozine - Evil Love
Evil Love is a spluttering tip of the cap to old school rock n' roll, which sees London-based quartet, Limozine dole out chunky three chord struts wh... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Interviews
Meursault: Escape from Auld Reekie
In a flourishing music scene, Meursault are one of Edinburgh's brightest hopes in recent years – it's high time everyone else caught on Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
She & Him - Volume Two
While adjustments have been made, She & Him’s sophomore release is very much an extension of their first. A choir of merrily chirruping Zooeys and ... Read more »| 05 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Whiplash - Losing Control
Australian MC, Whiplash, doesn't so much spit rhymes as dribble them, drooling nearly indecipherable vocal trails that are nearly all lost in a maze of gawdy... Read more »| 04 Apr 2010
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Officer Kicks - Citywide Curfew
Remember the music of The Winter Olympics? That was Officer Kicks. What about the interludes on Soccer AM? Also Officer Kicks. Even if you don’t recal... Read more »| 03 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Dam Mantle – Grey EP
There’s definitely something in the water in Glasgow; from the city that’s only just given us Rustie and the squelchy aural bliss that is... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Woodpigeon - Die Stadt Muzikanten
Written in Berlin, contemplating the lives of his Austrian/German grandparents with one eye on his former home of Edinburgh, Canadian songwriter Mark... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Sparrow and the Workshop – Crystals Fall
It’s understandable that Sparrow and the Workshop want their best songs to adorn what is absolutely, definitely their debut album this time around. The... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen - April 2010: WHY? Takeover
Armed with the April singles and a ghetto blaster from 1991, Dave Kerr finds WHY? frontman Yoni Wolf "pimpin" in a Glasgow hotel room decked out like Pat Butcher's knocking shop. "I don’t like much stuff," Mr Wolf cautions, "but it’s going to take something pretty serious to make me give a song the thumbs down..." Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Live Music
Book Now: Primavera Sound
Face it: the weather can make or break a festival. You and your friends can spend almost £200 each on a ticket, plus more on camping gear, petrol and b... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Jaguar Love – Hologram Jams
Oozing with brash stabs of dirty synth and riddled with some truly ear-piercing, almost glam rock vocal screeches, Hologram Jams – the second album fro... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Slaraffenland - We're On Your Side
What Sigur Rós are to Iceland, Efterklang have become to Denmark; the critical darlings through whose prism outsider eyes are prone to viewing –... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
The Moth and the Mirror: Closer to the Flame
After an age of bubbling under, elusive sextet The Moth and The Mirror feel they're finally ready to make waves Read more »| 31 Mar 2010