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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InterviewsJack & Kyle: "The D Will Never Die!"
"It’s important to me that music be glorious. And it’s important to me that whatever we do next be glorious. But will it be a tour? Will it be a movie? Will it be a TV show? Or will it just be me and Kyle talking to you? I don’t know. One thing’s for sure, it shall be glorious." - Jack Black Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
InterviewsThese Arms Are Snakes: Apocalypse? No!
Office jobs? Pension plans? Breaking bands? These Arms Are Snakes crave not these things, as Brian Cook tells Ryan Drever. Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin
Desert dwelling hippies return for another album of perfectly pedestrian goodness Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Goldfrapp @ The Corn Exchange, 5 Nov
Following her early days singing on Orbital and Tricky records, Alison Goldfrapp hit the big time with 2006’s Supernature, its glammy electro perfectly captu... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
My Vitriol @ Stereo, 19 Nov
High on the “whatever happened to…?” list of the past five years is My Vitriol, now showing up at Stereo in Glasgow. After a highly succe... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Little Joy - Little Joy
Surely nobody was thinking of That's The Story Of My Life and After Hours when The Strokes and The Velvet Underground were being routinely compared back at t... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008
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Reviews
Pascal Comelade - The No Dancing
One man's whimsical, pedestrian, musical ruminations Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsY’All Is Fantasy Island – No Ceremony
YiFi’s potent mixture of Celtic Americana is sprawled out on the porch, moonshine in hand Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Metal Up Your Ass - November, 2008
Potentially the gigging highlight of the month, and perhaps of the year, comes in the form of the astonishing Israeli trio Monotonix (10 Nov) at The Captain's Rest Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live MusicThe Black Keys @ Queen's Hall, 16 Nov
Bringing to a close a year that saw them release a white-hot collaboration with hip-hop hit-maker Danger Mouse, The Black Keys will bring their oil-stained g... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Don Caballero @ Stereo, 12 Nov
Influential Pennsylvanian math-rockers hit Glasgow Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
On this first single from The Stand Ins, companion piece to 2007's critically acclaimed The Stage Names, Okkervil River's Will Sheff takes the role of beleag... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Mogwai @ Corn Exchange, 21 Oct
Due to an electrical glitch, a subsequent lack of a proper soundcheck and a tight schedule, Errors (****) are practically playing before most punters have be... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
The Cardinals @ The Picture House, 14 Nov
More sober than he's been in years, expect Ryan Adams' erratic live show to be a more polished affair this time out Read more »| 28 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Greg Weeks - The Hive
Espers frontman flirts with prog rock and freak folk on impressive solo album Read more »| 28 Oct 2008