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 Dirty Dozen - June, 2009
Plenty of new music in the D-12 sack this month, but Nick Mitchell finds that there's just no keeping a few Britpop veterans down Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Matteah Baim - Laughing Boy
Previously half of Metallic Falcons with Sierra Casady (of weird dream-pop eccentrics CocoRosie), second album Laughing Boy reveals Matteah Baim to be more g... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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The Ghost of a Thousand - New Hopes, New Demonstrations
At a certain point, hardcore kids got sick of just mashing trap kits and chugga-chugga riffs. It seems Brighton-hailing The Ghost of a Thousand were some of ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Bellini - The Precious Prize Of Gravity
Albini-produced discordance on Italian/American Collective's third offering Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Interviews
Meet E: A Werewolf in LA
Life rarely rained for Mark Everett, but it frequently poured. The man known as E has spent the past four years searching for answers from his heartbreaking past. Now he tells Finbarr Bermingham that he just might have found them Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Live MusicgoNorth 2009 @ Inverness (Various), 11-12 Jun
And so it seems the festival season has crept back upon us, sidling up with all the stealth and dexterity of a hungry cat, almost eerily unnoticed. First the... Read more »| 29 May 2009
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Live MusicAcoustic Ladyland @ The Voodoo Rooms, 24 Jun
Acoustic Ladyland are the antithesis of the anodyne listening experience provided by the common-or-garden ‘mellow sax trio’. Instead, London&rsqu... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Live Music
Manic Street Preachers at Barrowlands, 25 May
Another dreich night in Glasgow fails to dampen the spirits outside the Barrowlands as the hordes bay for the live premiere of Journal for Plague Lovers. Pla... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
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Jack Peñate - Everything is New
When Jack Peñate spasmodically sidestepped on to the scene like an epileptic crab in 2006, detractors quickly lumped him in with the jangly Mockneys d... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Live Music
Unicorn Kid @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Jun
Not many 17-year-olds from Edinburgh can say they’ve collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys...or played a live session on BBC Radio 1...or featured in NME... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
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Lord Cut-Glass - Lord Cut-Glass
No one could accuse Alun Woodward of rushing things. Lord Cut-Glass is the alias under which the former Delgado has slowly been unveiling his solo material s... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
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Cass McCombs - Catacombs
US singer-songwriter Cass McCombs returns with his second album for Domino, Catacombs, a musically melancholic but lyrically sharp record. McCombs is a drift... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
ReviewsAdam Franklin - Spent Bullets
Too strong for shy shoegazers, Adam Franklin’s old band, Swervedriver, were often lumped in with labelmates Ride or My Bloody Valentine, but in reality... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
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Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors' last album, Rise Above, was an attempt by New Yorker Dave Longstreth to recreate Black Flag's Damaged despite not having heard it for 15 ye... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
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Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another
New musical maxim: “In the land of the three-piece, tone is King”. To support this bold new truth, Future of the Left squeeze every drop of juice... Read more »| 28 May 2009