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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Live MusicThe Twilight Sad / Frightened Rabbit @ The Liquid Room, 14 Aug
Beguiling and hilarious in equal measure Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
Live MusicLaura Marling @ Bannerman's, 12 Aug
Alas! I cannot breathe... Laura Marling sweats it out on her Bannerman's debut Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsCalexico - Two Silver Trees
Hailing from Tuscon, Arizona, and naming themselves after a California border town, Calexico has long had a distinctive Southwestern style. Still evincing a... Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Popup - Love Triangle / Pull the Fuse
Popup’s thick regionalism and jabbing beats set them up as a seriously interesting prospect Read more »| 18 Aug 2008 -
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Icarus - Monologues
In a funny twist of fate, this writer has been handed Monologues, the debut album from Edinburgh-outfit Icarus, for review, having just critiqued Daedelus&rs... Read more »| 17 Aug 2008 -
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Capitol 1212 - Sampler
You don't really hear an awful lot about Scottish hip-hop these days, but if the output from Capitol 1212, the production duo consisting of Edinburgh-based D... Read more »| 15 Aug 2008
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Plush - Fed
If you stop to listen, there’s just a hint of that promised genius mumbled amidst his rant Read more »| 15 Aug 2008 -
Festivals5 Reasons to haul ass to Hydro Connect
Drink with an outstretched pinky at Connect and you could easily be mistaken for royalty, as Ally Brown reveals Read more »| 14 Aug 2008 -
InterviewsSpiritualized in the next dimension
In time-worn tradition, Spiritualized frontman Jason Pierce finds that there's nothing quite like dying to propel the artist's work into the public consciousness. So he did it, twice! Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
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Green Peppers - Adventures in the Slipstream
An album safe to cosy up to, if not to entirely enliven the spirits Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
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Lykke Li - Breaking It Up
Breaking It Up is essentially an incredibly silly pop song done very well. At the core is a soft kick-drum embellished with handclaps and Lykke Li's velvet-... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Nouvelle Vague @ The Liquid Room, 8 Aug
Oozing Gallic charm as they work their way through their second night of sexy Bossa Nova'd 1980s hits Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Earlimart - Hymn and Her
Returning with their sixth album, Earlimart continue to craft Death Cab-lite songs heavy on oh-so-sincere soporific sensitivity but light on anything with th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Drive-By Truckers @ The Liquid Room, 6 Aug
The Truckers play up to their slack-jawed stereotype, but there's much more to this lot than the typecast Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
Winds its way through a faintly Slavic wilderness, trailing alluring poetry behind Read more »| 12 Aug 2008