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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Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: dEUS
Last month, singer/songwriter (and film director) Tom Barman returned with his excellent dEUS troupe, clutching hold of a heavily groove-infected new album called Vantage Point. Ahead of next issue's interview with the affable Belgian he gave us some insight in to the sounds that kept his creative juices flowing while he was down in the bunker Read more »| 13 May 2008 -
Live Music
Triptych Farewell @ Tramway, 26 Apr
Darren Carle finds that Mogwai, Errors and Frightened Rabbit rule the waves in Glasgow as he goes for a surf at the last ever Triptych hoe-down Read more »| 13 May 2008 -
Reviews
The Thirst - Sail Away
Most single releases tend to be overly-complicated (the original record having bajillions of remixes tacked on to fill up space), but The Thirst, much like ... Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Interviews
Life Thru a Jens
Swedish crooner Jens Lekman briefly hung up his guitar when scurrilous stories about him became too much to take. Luckily for us he didn't retire for long, but as he tells Ally Brown, if you're trying to find out the truth about him, you may as well just make something up Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Reviews
Various Artists - Godskitchen Underground
From the opening shimmering synths of Robert M’s Only You, this compilation of trance-inflected dirty electro will immediately transport any house fan ... Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Festivals
The Skinny @ Coachella 2008
A festival in the Californian sun starring Prince, Portishead and 'Dark Side of the Moon' in full, you say? Ally Brown takes one for the team at Coachella 2008... Read more »| 12 May 2008
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Reviews
Plantlife - Love Toy
Given his penchant for naughty electrofunk pop it is perhaps unsurprisingly main man Jack Splash has recently been on production duties for other naughty electrofunk pop-types Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Reviews
V/A - Sub Club 20 Years Underground
As the club moves into a new era, this double CD looks back at the last twenty years Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Reviews
Beat Six - When the Chemicals Ignite
Passion reigned in by style Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Reviews
Born Ruffians - I Need A Life
Whether or not this is salvageable is up for debate Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Reviews
Atomic Hooligan - Sex Drugs And Blah Blah Blah
It’s a relentless rollercoaster of stonking basslines, irresistible beats and distorted loud noises, from album opener and future anthem Dirty, to the hands-in-the-air rush of final track Too Late To Be Afraid Read more »| 10 May 2008 -
Reviews
Near the Parenthesis - Of Soft Construction
The perfect post-modern dinner party soundtrack Read more »| 10 May 2008 -
Live Music
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ Carling Academy, 4 May
True to form, The Seeds leave us as a sweaty mass Read more »| 09 May 2008 -
Playlists
I Hear a New World (May, 2008)
Inspired by the cosmic concept album of the same name by pioneering producer Joe Meek, this brand new monthly column will highlight a selection of unique and essential tracks by groundbreaking artists from Scotland and further afield, all of which can be heard on the accompanying podcast. Read more »| 09 May 2008 -
Live Music
Sebadoh @ The Classic Grand, 25 Apr
Gaffney’s opening gambit is slurring, lost, terminally tragic, and deflating Read more »| 09 May 2008