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
Roisin Murphy @ ABC, 1 Dec
A show of the visual kind, at times eclipsing the music itself Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Live Music
Sons and Daughters @ Cabaret Voltaire, 2 Dec
Sons and Daughters certainly provide some colloquial laughs and bare-faced iconoclasm, matched by their mesmerising stage presence. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Live Music
Swimmer One @ Voodoo Rooms, 22 Nov
Whilst the songs are flawlessly delivered, tonight the intensity that the record is so loaded with seems somehow lacking. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Live Music
The Twilight Sad @ Cabaret Voltaire
It's been a good year for Scottish music and tonight's bill at Cabaret Voltaire offers up three reasons why Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Live Music
This Is Music @ Henry's Cellar Bar, 29 Nov
A multi-vocal, multi-guitar onslaught of sound, tonight Action Group delivers Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Live Music
UNKLE @ ABC, 13 Nov
Let's not piss about here: UNKLE haven't been playing in quite the same ballpark since DJ Shadow left the fold not long after the appearance of their definin... Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Yeasayer
Given the eclecticism of All Hour Cymbals, it was no surprise that Yeasayer gave us a top ten covering five decades, three continents, million-selling mega-hits, out-of-print odd-jobs, and multiple styles and fashions. It's a myriad list that defies obvious logic; just how we like it. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Live Music
Live Music Roundup - January
Kula Shaker are here to help you tap that retro vein with a fat bag of Tattva Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen - January, 2008
A new year of new musical masterpieces? Nick Mitchell assesses the first batch... Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Live Music
Metal Up Your Ass - January, 2008
It's a new year with new music reaching Scotland but alongside it come those welcome smatterings of the old and familiar Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
Dark side of the tune
They carved a niche fanbase with their first two (or one and a half) incendiary records, and now Sons and Daughters tell Nick Mitchell they're ready for more< Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
Grant Campbell - Beyond Below
Hits something of a modern benchmark that many singer-songwriters can only aspire to. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
Adrian Crowley - Long Distance Swimmer
Aqua-folk, anybody? Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Reviews
Saul Williams – The Inevitable Rise and Fall of Niggy Tardust
A fascinating soundclash of dark industrial beats and conscious rap Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Interviews
THE SKINNY ON:07, or, where do we go from here?
Titled The Challenge of the New Reality, The Skinny's first music conference was concerned with the hottest topic around: in a digital age, how are we going to get people to pay? A tricky one; lucky we had so much fun in the process of asking... Read more »| 06 Jan 2008