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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ReviewsDosh - Tommy
For a man turning out his fifth album, Dosh sounds remarkably fresh. New longplayer Tommy makes good on the Minnesotan instrumentalist’s ear for arrang... Read more »| 29 Mar 2010 -
Live MusicDundee Blues Bonanza @ Various Venues, 23-25 July
Strong echoes emanating out of Chicago and the Mississippi Delta will reverberate through Dundee's city centre come July as the city readies itself once agai... Read more »| 29 Mar 2010 -
Live MusicThe Metal Column - April 2010
In April of 1999, a handful of bands gathered for a showcase gig that grew from an online music zine. Known simply as Roadburn, this annual event takes place... Read more »| 28 Mar 2010 -
ReviewsSuper Adventure Club - Avoid Zombies
In theory, Glasgow (via Livingstone) trio Super Adventure Club could be a nightmarish proposition: they have a singer/guitarist, Bruce Wallace, who screeches... Read more »| 26 Mar 2010 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - April 2010
Poet, provocateur and bona fide cultural icon Gil Scott-Heron plays Edinburgh's HMV Picture House on 21 April and The Warehouse in Aberdeen the following night. Don't sleep. Read more »| 26 Mar 2010 -
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Drive-By Truckers - The Big To Do
In this modern age of flavour-of-the-moment music, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers should be viewed as something of an institution, with The Big To Do mark... Read more »| 26 Mar 2010
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Reviews
White Belt Yellow Tag – Methods
White Belt Yellow Tag’s martial art-themed name connotes an experience level one step above novice, and as such the three-piece fit the billing... Read more »| 26 Mar 2010 -
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Robin Guthrie – Sunflower Stories EP
It feels a strange observation to make, but former Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie appears to have mellowed over the years. Somehow the Grangemouth multi-instrume... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
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Dropkick Murphys - Live On Lansdowne, Boston, MA
With so many tours rattling through nearly every town with a PA these days - combined with the relentless collection of live clips and streams at our digital... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Nice Nice - Extra Wow
Jason Buehler and Mark Shirazi, a.k.a. Nice Nice, make their Warp debut with a collection of sound so rich and triumphant that it absolutely deserves its tit... Read more »| 25 Mar 2010 -
Live Music
WHY? @ Stereo, 18 March
“We’re from here,” chuckles Yoni Wolf as he climbs up on the pulpit of Stereo’s dank basement. The WHY? frontman belies his shy, nerd... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
Live MusicThee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra @ Glasgow School of Art, 19 March
With his left hand flowing over the fretboard while the right rattles his acoustic's wooden body and glances over strings, RM Hubbert is one hell of a guitar... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
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We Were Promised Jetpacks - The Last Place You'll Look EP
The Last Place You'll Look reprises two standout tracks from We Were Promised Jetpacks' underrated debut LP These Four Walls – Short Bursts and This Is... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
Playlists
Super Adventure Club's Avoid Zombies: Track-by-Track, By the Band
Hip Hop Hot Pot Pot Noodle Tales, circumstances and quips from three people living on Bread Street in Edinburgh for three months in a tiny two bedroom flat &... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
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Various Artists - Shank OST
The producers of the dystopian Brit-flick Shank obviously buy into the argument of grime as a handy expression of urban decay, as its official soundtrack bra... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010