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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ReviewsThe Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant
The addition of iconic Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr brings discernible maturity to the structure of The Cribs' fourth album. While still guitar-heavy and fra... Read more »| 24 Aug 2009 -
Live MusicFrightened Rabbit @ Queen's Hall, 18 Aug
Unlike their winged namesakes, the Moth and the Mirror initially find the bright lights of the Queens’s Hall less than attractive, not relaxing until t... Read more »| 22 Aug 2009 -
Live Music
Sunset Rubdown @ Stereo, 10 Sep
Montreal band tour their brilliant new album, Dragonslayer Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
ReviewsMaps – Turning the Mind
On Maps’ Mercury nominated debut album, bedroom recording prodigy James Chapman sounded like an especially blissed-out shoegazer (if such a paradox is ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
Live Music
Hockey @ King Tut's, 20 Sep
Not long out of their wrapper and Hockey’s party vibe is already proving as divisive as yeast spread. Their indie-rock shapes, tinged with electro-pop ... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009 -
Live Music
Broken Records @ Queen's Hall, 17 Aug
You only need one peek at tonight’s undercard to gauge the heights Broken Records have scaled. Twelve months ago a verbatim line-up would have seen My... Read more »| 21 Aug 2009
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Live MusicGang of Four @ HMV Picture House, 18 Sep
The original 'Gang of Four' shaped Mao Zedong's political apparatus for a ten year spell; polemical post-punk outfit Gang of Four, on the other hand, are ent... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Live Music
The Phantom Band @ Electric Circus, 19 Aug
Perhaps fittingly, Glaswegian motorik-prog rock bastards The Phantom Band are tonight playing a venue mere feet away from some of the world's most haunted ba... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Live Music
Camille O'Sullivan @ Assembly Halls, 9 Aug
Camille is known for her cabaret style renditions of Nick Cave and David Bowie, as well as traditional favourites. If the Dark Angel lacks her stunning versi... Read more »| 20 Aug 2009 -
Live MusicOkkervil River @ Òran Mór, 9 Sep
Will Sheff takes his inimitable stage show to Glasgow Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Reviews
Emmy the Great - Edward EP (First Songs)
Emmy the Great revisits her juvenilia (well, perhaps juvenilia is a bit much…she’s only 25), and it’s a chance to witness her ingén... Read more »| 19 Aug 2009 -
Videos
The T Sessions: The Twilight Sad
Off the Beaten Tracks is a music video project in unusual surroundings. The Skinny and Off the Beaten Tracks have teamed up to bring you music videos from ar... Read more »| 17 Aug 2009 -
Reviews
Misty Roses - Villainess
Phil Spector’s influence lives on in this swooping ’60s-style orchestral pop that fans of Richard Hawley or the Last Shadow Puppets will lap up. ... Read more »| 14 Aug 2009 -
Live Music
David Byrne @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 8 Aug
At first, the dance routines aren’t quirky, merely irritating, superfluous, technically average and maybe just a tad pretentious. Suddenly, perhaps dur... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009 -
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Dave Cloud and the Gospel of Power - Fever
Dave Cloud might now resemble an off-season Santa Claus, but his sound is anything but festive. The portly, bearded Nashville veteran is in the vein of myste... Read more »| 11 Aug 2009