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PreviewsRecord 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 -
PreviewsThe 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 -
PreviewsHot 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 -
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Live Music Highlights – February 2011
Blending druggy guitars, sinister ambience and wordy, gothic lyrical themes, Esben and the Witch are one of the more intriguing acts currently threatening to... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
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Efterklang @ Òran Mór, 24 Feb
Still fresh from their elegant masterpiece of last year, Magic Chairs, ambitious Danish posse Efterklang head back to Glasgow's Òran Mór for a ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Festivals
Glasgow Film Festival 2011: The Music Strand
Gigs are conducted on stages in music venues; films are shown in cinemas. In its third year, the Glasgow Music and Film Festival takes such received wisdom a... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
PreviewsThe Metal Column – February 2011
In the face of the recent panic that 'rock/guitar music is finally dead', we feel obliged to reassure all those lamenting some kind of rock-pocalypse that yo... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
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Ticket of the Month: Mogwai
So, not only have Mogwai blessed their new record with one of the greatest album titles in recent memory (Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will), they've als... Read more »| 03 Jan 2011 -
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The Metal Column – January 2011
Right, let's avoid any idealistic New Year sentiment for a second and just admit it: January is a drag, man. It was always going to be impossible to top Napa... Read more »| 03 Jan 2011