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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ReviewsDrive By Argument - Drive-By Argument
Ayr's Drive By Argument promise to "make you shit your pants". If you don’t, they offer a complimentary laxative. It takes a special band to propose th... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsBoris - Smile
Not wanting to be labeled as a racial profiler, I have previously pondered many times in these pages about why Japan does actually, factually have the best b... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsBirds Of Avalon - Bazaar, Bazaar
This album is a brilliant example of how to bring classic rock influences into the 21st century. This is despite - or perhaps because of - Birds Of Avalon&rs... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsBeehoover - Heavy Zooo
First off, this is quite some noise for a two-piece. Definitely at their best when summoning enormous riffs from the ether, Beehoover have managed to deliver... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Asva - What You Don't Know is Frontier
One of the more permissible travesties of modern music is the acceptance of ultra-grim necro black metal into the pretentious art types' embrace. It's not re... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
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Adem - Takes
Adem is no dying legend, ageing rockstar, nor crooning lounge lizard, yet he still survives the release of this covers album with his reputation not only int... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008
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Atmosphere - Shoulda Known
Atmosphere have delivered a welcome shot in the arm to a genre (hip-hop) that was in dire need of a fresh approach, waxing lyrical about paranoia, egos and w... Read more »| 23 Apr 2008 -
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James Hara - Nothing New
Singer-songwriters like Hara, who emigrated to Glasgow four years ago, might almost need to shout to be heard Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
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Lights, Action! - All Eyes To The Morning Sun
Nothing on this mini album from the London five-piece supports the cocksure attitude Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
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Hadouken! - Music For An Accelerated Culture
This Hoxton group's take on grime leaves them in the sub-Dizzee Rascal camp, with their lyrics and delivery not a patch on that pioneer of all things urban Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Live Music
Wake the President, Glasgow School of Art, 5 Apr
Tonight’s New Breed night delivers exactly what it should Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
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Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
A recording as pure as the drifting snow Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
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Miyagi - Lucky Face
Some nicely blended moments Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
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El Perro Del Mar - From the Valley to the Stars (Memphis Industries)
A grand ambition for a sophomore, or indeed any album Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
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Max Shire - Love Lost Again
Pass the absinthe, will you Read more »| 22 Apr 2008