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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InterviewsThemselves: Return of the Boom Bap
With CrownsDown, Themselves came full circle, delivering an album of straight-up hip-hop. Adam "Doseone" Drucker says it's all about avoiding rap Hell Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
InterviewsNotes on The Mirabel
Falkirk troubadour Adam Stafford lays out the liner notes for his curious new album of covers Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
ReviewsCarlton Melton – Pass It On
Recorded inside a Geodesic Dome off the coast of Northern California, Pass It On is an album of live, improvised, experimental, psychedelic jams. If that las... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
InterviewsMitchell Museum: National Treasures
The road to their brilliant debut album has been a hard but worthwhile one for Mitchell Museum. Ahead of its release, the Glasgow quartet square up to rival museums, set the record straight on Nigel Godrich and cast aspersions on Bono's feet Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Eminem – Recovery
It's sad what a few years of personal problems and patchy albums have done for Marshall Mathers, alias Eminem, a guy who once turned out some of the most ski... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Tango In the Attic – Bank Place Locomotive Society
When fresh-faced newcomers identify Paul Simon as a chief songwriting inspiration, cynics might well read between the lines and translate the citation to &ls... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010
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Reviews
Kid Canaveral – Shouting At Wildlife
Kid Canaveral have four self-released seven inches to their name, lyrics that rhyme Smash Hits with Brad Pitt, and debut album artwork adorned with doodled c... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – July 2010
Having made the leap from fascinating bedroom project to full-on psych-pop ensemble with excellent recent album Pigeons, Luke Temple and Here We Go Magic loo... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – July 2010
In an attempt to cover everything metal in Scotland, we do our best to unearth all the upcoming gigs that take place across the entire country. But it’... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Jammer – Jahmanji
Even though grime got glam and captured the ears of everyone from ringtone-buying teens to contemplative middle-class listeners since being commandee... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
A collaborative album from Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse will raise few eyebrows, given both acts' prior prolificacy as musical magpies – with a pletho... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
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Spare Snare – Victor
Aesthetically gorgeous; initial copies of Victor are packaged in a lovely hand screen printed card sleeve by Spare Snare driving machine, Jan Burnett. Champi... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
Digitonal – Be Still My Bleeping Heart
London duo Digitonal once played at a base for NASA, which suits that starry glare in their eye down to the ground, or rather off into space. This co... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
Live Music
TrioVD @ Stereo, 23 Jun
Writing about jazz, it's not often you get to deploy words like 'punk', 'pure evil' and 'Christ my ears are bleeding', but tonight's TrioVD gig is an occasio... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
Live Music
Polar Bear @ The Arches, 21 Jun
A passing Duke Ellington fan may not recognise it as such, but in the case for jazz being about embracing creative freedom and pushing at accepted forms, Pol... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010