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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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 -
Live Music
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 -
Live Music
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 -
Reviews
Harvey Milk - Harvey Milk
Way back when they were completely unknown, these sludgelords recorded an ultra-crushing debut with Bob Weston (the other Shellac guy) behind the helm. The s... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
Quasi - American Gong
Quasi have always been seen as something of a footnote in the history of American alternative rock - this despite the band's inherent likeability and a strin... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
Pontiak - Sea Voids
Bookended by doom-laced instrumentals that border on boogie, this confusing nine-song album skips impulsively from acoustic ballads and subdued soft rock to ... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010
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Interviews
Ambulances: A Strange Arrangement
Psychedelic indie oddities Ambulances are a band intent on remaining a mystery. The Skinny speaks to singer Sara Colston in the quest for a straightforward answer. Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
Panda Su - Sticks and Bricks
What’s that Sooty? You can’t decide whether Panda Su is a breath of fresh air or a stale sigh of nothingness? That’s quite a pickle, my yel... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
Interviews
Field Music Bring on the Double
Maybe it's an innate northern English buoyancy, or the fact that the country's cold snap is finally starting to thaw, or maybe it's genuine enthusiasm at the... Read more »| 15 Feb 2010 -
Live Music
The Prodigy @ Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, 30 Jan
Guaranteed to knock it out of the park every time, Prodigy gigs have unquestionably become a bankable night out since they first tumbled onto the fledgling a... Read more »| 12 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
Polar Bear - Peepers
While you don't need credentials to review an album (shhhh, don't tell anyone), a familiarity with the genre at hand usually pays dividends. So I'll come cle... Read more »| 11 Feb 2010 -
Interviews
Brian Jonestown Massacre: In The Court Of King Anton
The volatile frontman of the Brian Jonestown Massacre talks conspiracy theories, being ahead of the curve and defiling The Beatles on his band's new album. Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
Emma Pollock - The Law of Large Numbers
After a couple of relatively quiet years Emma Pollock redefines herself on her second album, her solo career no longer relying upon residual goodwill earned ... Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
RM Hubbert - First & Last
El Hombre Trajeado are lost icons of Glasgow DIY. I say this as someone who had never heard of them prior to this review commission, but whose excitement has... Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
Live Music
St Deluxe @ Stereo, 6 Feb
It's always a shame when an audience is tardy, leaving a band like Licker (***) to play to the walls. However, the band themselves don't seem too fazed and m... Read more »| 09 Feb 2010