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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ReviewsSpiritualized - Songs in A&E
Songs in A&E maintains a natural development in the band's career: quieter, yes, but as thunderously emotive as ever Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
ReviewsV/A - Toolroom Knights Mixed by Tom Novy & Wally Lopez
Novy shows a disconcerting love of cheesy vocals though his instrumental version of Ono’s No No No Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
ReviewsFanattica - Edingrad
Balkan-influenced mania to make even the scurviest of sea dogs heave and haul those oars Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Reviews
Bilge Pump - Rupert the Sky
A disturbing and difficult album Read more »| 27 May 2008 -
Interviews
A Subtle Guide to Hip-Hop
Once dismissed as "a fake ass Marky Mark" in a rap battle against Eminem, Adam "DoseOne" Drucker has taken his vision of what hip-hop represents to dizzy heights with cult favourites cLOUDDEAD and his latest Subtle venture. Ali Maloney finds out his secret, but doesn't mention that he looks like his long lost identical twin Read more »| 26 May 2008 -
ReviewsSteve Von Till - A Grave Is A Grim Horse
A striking and heart-rending late night desert soundtrack Read more »| 26 May 2008
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Reviews
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Toronto-based Crystal Castles are the kind of band whose persona and music screams ‘WE ARE SO SCENE!’, and the fact that they appeared on the mos... Read more »| 25 May 2008 -
ReviewsVarious Artists - My Favourite Things
This compilation from Mule Musiq's ambient and experimental offspring lacks the power of its parent's 12"s Read more »| 24 May 2008 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Battles
In honour of The Skinny's scran special, Ian Williams of math rock virtuosos Battles serves up a tasty mixtape and a carnivorous dish to devour Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Reviews
Radiohead - The Best Of
Radiohead's former label try to cash in on the Oxford band's back catalogue, without their permission, but who are they appealing to? Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - June 2008
When it comes to gig action, June's looking totally fucking weapon Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Festivals
West End Festival @ Various venues across Glasgow, 13 - 29 Jun
As most Glasgow residents are aware, summer in the West End brings with it a few certainties: sunburn in Kelvingrove Park, attractive girls on Great Western ... Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Reviews
Kunt and the Gang - One Last Wank and One Last Cry
‘THE TRILOGY IS COMPLETE’ thunders the Basildon pop shocker Kunt and the Gang. Wanking and crying was first coined in his song about finding a po... Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Reviews
V/A - Calling All Nations
If you were to see Calling All Nations on the shelf of a shop, you may pick it up on the merit of its artwork, a dynamic illustration of a samurai-staff-wiel... Read more »| 23 May 2008 -
Reviews
V/A mixed by High Contrast - Watch The Ride
High Contrast shows how a real drum n bass mix should sound: kicking things off with the old school sound of Axwel's retro hit I Found You, piano stabs aplen... Read more »| 23 May 2008