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The Metal Column – June 2011
It’s been a hell of a month, hasn’t it? The world’s number one posh couple finally tied the knot and got off our tellies, our number one ba... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
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Knockengorroch World Ceilidh 2011
If you haven’t already taken in the eclectic charms of Knockengorroch’s (hopefully) sun-soaked journey through world music, this year would be a ... Read more »| 19 May 2011 -
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Happy Birthday Cry Parrot!
John Keys tips his hat to the selfless work of DIY Glasgow promoters Cry Parrot, celebrating their fourth birthday this month Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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Hot Ticket of the Month: Stag and Dagger
Over the last two years, Stag and Dagger’s Glasgow leg has honed the multi-venue urban festival format into a slick, well-oiled machine. 2011’s e... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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Live Music Highlights – May 2011
With his unflappable baritone and rambling lyrical flow, Bill Callahan (formerly Smog) is an enigmatic balladeer very much in the Lee Hazlewood/Leonard Cohen... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011 -
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The Metal Column – May 2011
The transition from spring to summer has got to be the worst time of year for metalheads. Autumn is when life begins its annual descent into decay, cruelly f... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011
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Record Store Day 2011
With downloads and tax-dodging web-retailers gobbling up sales, the humble record store’s obituary had been penned many times by cultural forecasters a... Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
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Live Music Highlights – April 2011
Attention youths! Emotional guitar rock this way comes courtesy of Aberdeen (via Brighton) three-piece The X-certs. A solid rhythm section, battle-tested alt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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The Metal Column – April 2011
As we slink into April, rolling news coverage continues to resemble about a dozen simultaneous disaster movies. Whilst continuing to be pummelled unmercifull... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
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Hot Ticket of the Month: Mount Kimbie
Sometimes The Skinny likes to think back to simpler days; days when ‘dance’, ‘classical’, ‘pop' and 'rock’ were the only ... Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
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Hot Ticket of the Month: Seefeel @ Glasgow School of Art, 21 Mar
Though Seefeel were long seen as outsiders on the Warp label, their recent return to activity has – whether by accident or design – placed them s... Read more »| 01 Mar 2011 -
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Live Music Highlights – March 2011
Cut Copy's new LP Zonoscope may be dividing the critics, but there's no dispute that they have the tools and the talent to put together an amazing live show.... Read more »| 28 Feb 2011 -
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The Metal Column – March 2011
So we're in March already – the Jäeger-fuelled juggernaut is picking up, but long before a slew of northern thrashers make the annual pilgrimage t... Read more »| 28 Feb 2011 -
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The Monochrome Set @ Mono, 26 Mar
Currently in their third stint together, after previously packing it in once in 1985, and then again in 1998, The Monochrome Set are a deciduous yet resilien... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
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Fu Manchu @ The Cathouse, 3 Mar
Orange County stoners Fu Manchu will be hitting up our shores in March for another evening of big cars, bigger riffs and huge chemical consumption. Ten album... Read more »| 17 Feb 2011