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
Vessels @ Sneaky Pete's, 7 Apr
Music journalists have been sounding the death-knell for post-rock for years now, assuming that the recent patchy output of Stuart Braithwaite's likely lads ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
Live Music
Doves @ ABC, 15 Mar
Doves are out of practice. Tonight they return after four years' absence to play their high-quality songs to a supportive audience, but fail to draw out the ... Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Marianne Faithfull - Easy Come Easy Go
Marianne Faithfull has just about done it all. Drug busts and addictions, affairs with Rolling Stones and living on the streets, directly or indirectly (depe... Read more »| 23 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Joe Gideon & The Shark - Harum Scarum
It's fitting that this brother/sister duo were invited to support Nick Cave on tour. Their bluesy, dramatic recitals are wrought through with the same world-... Read more »| 20 Mar 2009 -
Festivals
Foxface @ Hinterland Festival, Glasgow, 1 May
One welcome trend in Scottish music of late has been the demise of the affected transatlantic warble in favour of genuinely native brogues. Some bands &ndash... Read more »| 20 Mar 2009 -
Interviews
XX Teens: Cut and paste, but don't copy
Choosing to borrow their name from a copier company was only the start of a rocky road to originality for XX Teens, Nick Mitchell discovers Read more »| 20 Mar 2009
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News
Fortune Finds Me Fit And Able: An Interview With First Aid Kit
Judged solely on musical content, First Aid Kit's début The Drunken Trees EP sounds like it was written by two wizened female folk singers in the deep... Read more »| 20 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Flawed fourth album from the much-hyped saviours of metal Read more »| 20 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Copy Haho – Bred For Skills & Magic EP
In his eponymous film, Napoleon Dynamite’s favourite animal is a liger, “bred for its skills and magic”. He might just have said the same a... Read more »| 19 Mar 2009 -
Interviews
The Decemberists: The coolest months
The Decemberists have never been known to take a conventional approach to their music. They recorded their third album, Picaresque, in the basement of a Baptist church. Their last effort, 2006’s The Crane Wife, was lyrically and musically based on an old Japanese folk tale. Frontman Colin Meloy explains their latest to Jeff Miranda Read more »| 19 Mar 2009 -
Live Music
Gojira @ Classic Grand, 12 Mar
A masterclass in furious noise. Read more »| 19 Mar 2009 -
Live Music
The Telescopes @ Captain's Rest, 11 Apr
Space rockers The Telescopes may have formed over twenty years ago but they are still recording and more importantly still gigging, albeit with a slim-lined ... Read more »| 19 Mar 2009 -
Live Music
PJ Harvey @ Queen's Hall, 26 Apr
Elvis Costello once famously asserted that PJ Harvey's songs can be summed up in three words: “blood and fucking”. Thankfully, Polly Jean has utt... Read more »| 18 Mar 2009 -
News
goNorth 2009 @ Inverness, 11-12 Jun
Scotland's leading music showcase, goNorth, is looking for new acts to appear at this year's event, to be held in Inverness over 11th and 12th June 2009. At... Read more »| 18 Mar 2009 -
Playlists
Mastodon Talk Crack the Skye: Exclusive Track-by-Track Preview
There’s been a lot of talk about the narrative behind Mastodon’s fourth LP proper – blown up to the heavens as a transcendental dream set in Tsarist Russia. But what about the way it actually, y’know, sounds? Before they unleash the devil and take to the road to play the album in its entirety, the explosive Atlantan quartet provide an exclusive track-by-track insight into the way songs were conceived, written and recorded – a firsthand account on the architecture of Crack the Skye. Guitarist Bill Kelliher picks up the story… Read more »| 18 Mar 2009