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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ReviewsMeat Puppets - Sewn Together
Despite Curt Kirkwood's assertions that “if I can get away with it, I'll make a record as cheap as I can and put as little work as I can into it,&rdquo... Read more »| 20 May 2009 -
Live MusicTeitur @ King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 7 Jun
Ultra-melancholy, ludicrously talented, doe-eyed singer-songwriter, blah blah blah… It’s easy to dismiss Faroe Islands native Teitur Lassen as t... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
Interviews
John Leckie: Producing the Goods
The music industry would be at a loss without British record producer John Leckie. Since he began his career in 1970 at Abbey Rd Studios as an in-house engin... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
Live Music
Crystal Antlers @ Sneaky Pete’s, 18 May
The unifying theme of this gig was always going to be volume – as in, lots of it. But Edinburgh band Dupec (****) refuse to be blown off the stage by t... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
Reviews
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
'The British Arcade Fire' is a label that Fanfarlo are likely becoming sick of, so often is it applied to their chamber pop magnificence. Yet for all the sim... Read more »| 19 May 2009 -
ReviewsEllen Mary McGee - The Crescent Sun
Debut from Nottingham-based songwriter, rich in dark mythological imagery. Read more »| 19 May 2009
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Reviews
The Gothenburg Address - A Lesser Coming Home
These days, the 'post-rock' label seems to be bandied around in much the same way as 'prog' used to, acting as a lazy shorthand for long instrumentals with o... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
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Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin
Trying to quantify a Tori Amos record is a fairly redundant endeavour. She's pretty much the standard-bearer for contemporary female soloists and thus asking... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
Live MusicJarvis Cocker @ ABC, 12 Jun
Out of the ashes of Pulp, the '90s ambassadors of Sheffield Sex City for whom the Britpop label felt more like a noose, rises the awkward phoenix of Jarvis C... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
Live Music
De La Soul @ Picture House, 5 Jun
Pioneering hip-hop trio De La Soul return to our shores, and woe betide anyone still foolish enough to call them hippies. In the two decades since their dayg... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
Reviews
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Grizzly Bear - not the wildly esoteric beast we took them for then. The Brooklyn (yes, another one) four-piece broke on to the international stage with their... Read more »| 18 May 2009 -
Interviews
Hey Vampires: Blood Brothers
Hey Vampires - a Glasgow-based trio excelling in making a hefty racket - can currently be found residing in the dark dominion of many, if not all, of the Glasgow's basement venues. Ryan Drever finds them in their natural habitat. Read more »| 15 May 2009 -
Reviews
God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
God Help The Girl is a new project from Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, a proposed musical film whose soundtrack features guest vocals from The Divin... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
Reviews
Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light
Though hailing from Germany, this five-piece doesn't merely regurgitate the motorik beat that has become synonymous with any dewy-eyed pastiche of the krautr... Read more »| 14 May 2009 -
Live Music
Metric @ Òran Mór, 12 May
Four years have passed since Metric's Last album, Live It Out, but judging by tonight's performance you'd never believe it. Brimming with confidence and shee... Read more »| 14 May 2009