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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ReviewsConor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
If you’ve come here looking for a helpful soundtrack to some impending suicide attempt in a rustic shack on the edge of a steely lake in the ass-crack ... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
InterviewsAdam Stafford: Do it Yourself (...or Consider Yourself Swallowed)
From his formative days as one half of the Chuck Norris Machine to releasing future classics as Y'all is Fantasy Island, Adam Stafford is not averse to a bit of DIY to get the job done. Here he writes about the genesis of his band and the organic success they've found on the Scottish circuit. Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Live Music...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Òran Mór, 17 April
From smashing guitars to plucking sitars; since splitting their fanbase neatly down the middle with the perceived apathy of 2006's So Divided and the lacklus... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
ReviewsManic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
Billed as a reprisal of their darkest period’s austerity, right down to the repulsive artwork, the Manics Street Preachers’ ninth album pokes ope... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Wooden Shjips - Dos
Man, oh man. This album should be good. It looks cool. The guys playing the music look cool. The name is suitably non-committal to suggest they don't crave a... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Live Music
Deerhunter @ Stereo, Glasgow, 20 May
Bradford Cox, lead singer with arty shoegaze revivalists Deerhunter, is a giant, in more ways than one. If you were to delve into the mind of this towering f... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009
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Isis - Wavering Radiant
Post-metal seems to spend a lot of time trying to undo Fred Durst as a musical proposition and prove once again that metal can be an intellectual entity, rat... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Gallows - Grey Britain
After a sinister opening gambit, Gallows get down to growling with a little more political venom than we've been accustomed to from the Herts quintet. Harnes... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
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Cryptacize - Mythomania
Judging by the connotations attached to both band and album names – mystery, inscrutability, fabling enigma - it seems Cryptacize (whose line-up includ... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
ReviewsThe Horrors – Primary Colours
Evidently tiring of the black-fringed cartoon band they had become in the wake of the B-movie pastiche of Strange House, The Horrors shift focus to the music... Read more »| 23 Apr 2009 -
Interviews
P.O.S.: Playing by his Own Rules
P.O.S. breaks the contemporary rap rulebook once again on latest album, Never Better. David McNamara catches up with the rapper at his Minneapolis home to discuss the pitfalls of hip-hop and the difficulties of being a musician trying to raise a child. Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
Live Music
Son of Dave @ King Tut's, 7 May
Wearing a three-piece suit and sitting down, armed with only a shaker, a few harmonicas and an ancient Akai sampler, Son of Dave – or Dave Jr., as he i... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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The Enemy - Music for the People
The stomping opener to Music For The People, and the muffled screeching that proceeds it, could suggest that Coventry’s self-declared finest have stumb... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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Golden Silvers - True Romance Album Review
What would it sound like if The Libertines were sent into the Earth’s atmosphere in a spaceship to record their comeback album with no guitars and only... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009 -
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Over The Wall - The Rise and Fall of Over The Wall
Originally released last November, the worldwide demand for Glasgow-based duo Over The Wall’s debut EP after The Skinny named them 'ones to watch in 2... Read more »| 22 Apr 2009