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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ReviewsVarious Artists - Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill - Extended Review
Inconsistency plagues a tribute album that really should have been something special. Read more »| 17 Sep 2009 -
ReviewsThe Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead
The Twilight Sad have taken on a leaner, meaner look in time for the release of their hugely anticipated second album Forget The Night Ahead. Singer James Gr... Read more »| 16 Sep 2009 -
Live Music
Buy Tickets Now: Yo La Tengo @ ABC, 6 Nov
Like Sonic Youth if Kim'n'Thurston had fallen in love while chatting baseball instead of art, and if Lee Ranaldo was a Simpsons buff, Yo La Tengo have long b... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Reviews
Phil Campbell - Daddy's Table
Having spent years battling drink, drugs and enduring trouble with record labels, it isn’t surprising that Phil Campbell has a wealth of materi... Read more »| 14 Sep 2009 -
Live Music
Sunset Rubdown @ Stereo, 10 Sep
Prog is not a dirty word. It’s occasionally worth reminding ourselves of that. The authority-baiting allure of punk can convince many an adolescent psy... Read more »| 11 Sep 2009 -
Live MusicPastels/Tenniscoats @ Stereo, 2 Sep
There's something of a coming-of-age about tonight's opening set from boxfresh Glasgow indie-poppers Veronica Falls (***). Roxanne Clifford and Patrick Doyle... Read more »| 11 Sep 2009
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Live MusicOkkervil River @ Òran Mór, 9 Sep
Okkervil River are good to their UK fans, making the trip to our shores at the drop of a hat these days. Tonight there’s no new record to promote and (... Read more »| 10 Sep 2009 -
Live Music
Tori Amos @ Royal Concert Hall, 8 Sep
Reputations are mysterious things. Rumours of past gigs had painted Tori Amos as a humourless virtuoso who’d sooner tell talkative fans to sling their ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2009 -
Live Music
Christ. @ The GRV, 26 Sep
Deep in the darkest recesses of the Cowgate (well, Guthrie Street) you will find The GRV, a multi-media arts venue which will soon play host to the equally ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2009 -
Playlists
The Twilight Sad's Forget the Night Ahead: Track-By-Track, By the Band
Reflection of the Television We weren't really sure if this one was going to be on the album; we had the chords and vocal line, and thought we'd give it a go... Read more »| 08 Sep 2009 -
Live Music
Versus: Meursault vs The Foundling Wheel vs Dead Boy Robotics @ The Voodoo Rooms, 10 Sep
This September stimulate your auditory senses with the return of VERSUS to Edinburgh’s award-winning Voodoo Rooms. The evening promises live music pack... Read more »| 08 Sep 2009 -
ReviewsThe Gullivers - Legerdemain EP
A Wall Against The Noise kicks off this second offering from Oxford four-piece, The Gullivers, creeping in with a wash of keyboard ambience and skeletal, gui... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
Reviews
Shannon Stephens - The Breadwinner
If you’re looking for musical credentials, Shannon Stephens has ‘em- former bandmate of Sufjan Stevens in Marzuki , songs covered on critically a... Read more »| 07 Sep 2009 -
Reviews
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
From rapid-boil kettles to omnipresent wireless broadband, the 21st century has proven itself to be one of instant gratification - much to the detriment of u... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009 -
Reviews
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Like the original ‘shoegaze’ tag in the early 90s, ‘nu-gaze’ is not a genre bands seem that happy to be burdened with. The Big Pink a... Read more »| 04 Sep 2009