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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ReviewsKasms - Absent Without Leave/Murmur
London Quartet get dark with impressive double A-side. Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsPastels/Tenniscoats – Vivid Youth / About You
The pairing of Glasgow indie darlings The Pastels with Japanese avant-gardists Tenniscoats might seem like an oddly exotic match-up. But in actual fact Steph... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - August, 2009
Art rock weirdos Victorian English Gentlemen's Club impressed the pants off us with their punchy, unpredictable 2006 debut but they never really got the atte... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsLovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls
The plot of Dan Brown’s forthcoming crime-against-literature/bestseller is top secret, but I reckon I’ve figured out the subject of investigation... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: The Twilight Sad
Since the first record, some of the things we've been doing are: playing gajillions of gigs round UK, Europe, America and Canada, drinking too much, not slee... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsMariachi El Bronx - Cell Mates
Unless The Jonas Brothers are anonymously working on a double album of folk-inspired death metal, this is undoubtedly the most unusual musical alter-ego of 2... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009
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Interviews
The Foundling Wheel: Spinning the Wheel of Fortune
Sonically nihilistic, The Foundling Wheel is Edinburgh’s premier one-man octave cranker. But, during a chat with the amiable Ted Koterwas, Billy Hamilton discovers appearances can be a lot more than just deceptive Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
Despite spending his teens in lo-fi garage-punk bands, Jay Reatard’s solo work is unashamedly pop. There are no attempts to undermine the hooks running... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
The word may carry all sorts of unsavoury connotations, but a makeover isn’t always such a bad thing. Once members of various underachieving Seat... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Interviews
Under the Influence: The Telescopes
Melody Maker once surmised that resurgent space rock outfit The Telescopes were "like mad cultural terrorists, they've taken the norm and fed it through a psychedelic blender." Here, frontman Stephen Lawrie explains that many of the those early influences Read more »| 24 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
The Bookhouse Boys - The Bookhouse Boys
“A soundtrack for a film that doesn’t exist” is up there with “voice of a generation” in the big book of irksome review clich&e... Read more »| 24 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
Esben and the Witch - Esben and the Witch EP
Ethereal romanticist folksters Esben and the Witch take their moniker from a Danish fairytale and fully live up to their literary flights of fancy, playing d... Read more »| 24 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
Chali 2na - Fish Outta Water
Impressively diverse debut from former J5 man Read more »| 24 Jul 2009 -
Live Music
David Byrne @ Edinburgh Playhouse, 8 Aug
The tenuous homecoming feel of Dumbarton-born David Byrne’s recent Glasgow show can’t feasibly be extended to Edinburgh. This month the naturaliz... Read more »| 23 Jul 2009 -
Live Music
'Thank You Frankley' @ Captain's Rest, 23 Aug
In a collision of Glaswegian indie-pop, supergroup Piano Bar Fight return from a near 18 month hiatus to collide with new cult duo Over The Wall and Glaswegi... Read more »| 23 Jul 2009