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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PlaylistsUnder the Influence: Tim Burgess
As The Charlatans dust down their arsenal of baggy anthems for Edinburgh's Hogmanay ho-down, frontman Tim Burgess gives us his desert island discs Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
Live MusicHog The Stage - Live Final @ HMV Picture House, 21 Nov
On reflection, it's easy to see why this quintet of acts was chosen to participate in the final of Hog The Stage, beating out hundreds of other entries to vi... Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
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Metropak – The Singles Collection
The late 70s spawned a vastly varied pool of talent within the UK, one hotbed of which was undoubtedly Edinburgh. From here came Metropak, four lads and two ... Read more »| 10 Dec 2010 -
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Kabanjak – Tree of Mystery
As one half of German production duo Ancient Astronauts, Kabanjak's credentials are well established; that Tree Of Mystery deals in soulful hip-hop should co... Read more »| 09 Dec 2010 -
InterviewsThe Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: 'When you dig up the past, the bones are just toys'
With a back-catalogue out of circulation and everyone from Grinderman to the Jim Jones Revue biting their style, Jon Spencer says it was time to unearth, dust off and put the Blues Explosion back in the oven Read more »| 09 Dec 2010 -
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Hookah the Fuzz – Hookah the Fuzz
In music, there are innovators and there are followers: Birmingham’s Hookah the Fuzz are firmly in the latter camp, though this is by no means a dispar... Read more »| 09 Dec 2010
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Live MusicThe National @ O2 Academy, 26 Nov
A steady ascent is a rare thing in the contemporary indie rock landscape, but from the humble success of Alligator onwards The National have become an increm... Read more »| 07 Dec 2010 -
Live MusicJenny & Johnny @ Cabaret Voltaire, 30 Nov
“Here's one about being bound and tied up in a dungeon – not unlike this club.” Jonathan Rice informs the Cabaret Voltaire crowd, finishing... Read more »| 07 Dec 2010 -
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Three Blind Wolves – Echo On The Night Train / Honey Fire
Still rooted in the Americana of his previous musical incarnation, Ross Clark And The Scarfs Go Missing, the moustachioed songsmith sounds like he's having a... Read more »| 07 Dec 2010 -
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Different Frequencies - Botanic Dreams
Rob Watson has shaken many a dancefloor with his work as producer The Magic Fly, and here he teams up with seasoned club vocalist Benjamin McCourt for a coll... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010 -
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Dogshite - Dogshite EP
London's Dogshite are a rambunctious outfit whose music hails back to the DIY ethics of punk's golden age, and who could easily have been transported in time... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010 -
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Daft Punk – Tron: Legacy
If the prospect of having Daft Punk soundtrack the 28-year follow up to cult video-game-as-movie Tron sounds like a marriage made in digital heaven, then wha... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010 -
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Robert Francis – Before Nightfall
With a rich musical heritage – including family ties with Ry Cooder - cindering good looks, and a barrow-load of brooding introspection, American racon... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010 -
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Steven Milne – Chasing Phantoms
Chasing Phantoms is Aberdonian Steven Milne’s first solo outing; however it’s far from being the work of a novice, with the young songwriter havi... Read more »| 06 Dec 2010 -
Opinion
10 of 2010 (#1): Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
Pay attention: it's hard – when there are photos, graphics, animations, videos and flashing coloured boxes, links to definitions and further reading an... Read more »| 02 Dec 2010