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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ReviewsThe Maccabees - Wall of Arms
Brighton based indie kids pull out all the stops on excellent second album Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
Live MusicAlasdair Roberts @ Cabaret Voltaire, 22 May
Alasdair Roberts returns to tour in support of his forthcoming album Spoils Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
Reviews
Jon Hopkins - Insides
The line between the polymath (the person who is good at everything) and the dilettante (the person who flippantly dabbles in everything) is treacherous; mus... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
ReviewsPeaches - I Feel Cream
Kurupt once said that you can’t make a ho a housewife, but Peaches is giving it a jolly good go. I Feel Cream opens with something of a red herring; su... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
Festivals
Outsider Festival: Now There's An Idea...
(SINCE THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN THE OUTSIDER FESTIVAL HAS SADLY BEEN CANCELLED) Read more »| 27 Apr 2009 -
ReviewsBill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz - GOK
Despite being 5701 miles apart (thanks, Internet), Scotland and Japan have a long-standing musical affinity, with bands like the BMX Bandits arguably finding... Read more »| 27 Apr 2009
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News
Tigerfest 2009 Roars Into Action
The discerning music fan will either need marathon stamina or the ability to pull off a convincing sickie for the month of May, because across Aberdeen, Dunf... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Live Music
Hinterland: Edie Sedgwick @ The Admiral Bar, 30 Apr
Edie Sedgwick, according to 'her' bio, is the transgendered reincarnation of the once famous Andy Warhol muse with the same name. Here to save the world thro... Read more »| 24 Apr 2009 -
Reviews
Conor 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 -
Interviews
Adam 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 -
Reviews
Manic 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 -
Reviews
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 -
Reviews
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