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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ReviewsSilversun Pickups - Pikul EP
Could well be a warm up before a more satisfying long-player. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
ReviewsFOUND - This Mess We Keep Reshaping
The closest thing Scottish music has to the DIY genius of BA Baracas. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
ReviewsThe Poems - I Am A Believer
All sufferers of SAD should take note and have a listen.
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Live MusicEnvy @ The Arches
The mixing desk would have to send out a search party to rescue the anaemic guitar sound. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Live MusicThe National @ ABC, 2 Nov
Uncomplicated in delivery but heart-wrenching by nature. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Live Music
LCD Soundsystem at Barrowlands
James Murphy has mastered the middle of the party but the warm up and encore need a lot more work. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007
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Live Music
Arcade Fire @ SECC, 26 Oct
The pompous sloganeering of a spoofed televangelist announces the Arcade Fire to a sizeable crowd, but any comedic effect is lost in the soulless cave of the... Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Live Music
Sons and Daughters, Fat Sams, Dundee
Always compelling. Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Live Music
ON:07 - The Challenge of the New Reality
The last decade has been marked by a state of relentless change which has had an impact on all aspects of the global music industry. Digital technologies, an... Read more »| 17 Nov 2007 -
Interviews
Bring Me The Horizon
Popular, heavy as cancer and bearing a reputation for ill behaviour? Yes, yes and yes. If you're feeling suitably deathly, prepare to take on these Sheffield noisemakers as they rock into Scotland Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Eugene McGuinness
Wouldn't sound too out of place in an Orange commercial Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Caribou - She's The One
It's about infatuation Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Interviews
The growing pains of Dillinger Escape Plan
SF: Drummers and injuries come and go but Dillinger Escape Plan has thrived against incredible odds, as Jamie Borthwick learns.
PQ: ""You know what we always remember about Scotland...every single time we've played there, we've seen someone get arrested."" Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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Eugene McGuinness - Bold Street
Wouldn't sound too out of place in an Orange commercial. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
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KT Tunstall - Saving My Face
Where's that rasping bluesy voice that previously set her apart? Read more »| 07 Nov 2007