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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ReviewsSonic Youth – Hits Are For Squares
Hits Are For Squares sees a gallery of pop culture's most credible Generation X-ers chipping in with their nomination for Sonic Youth's most killer anti-cla... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
ReviewsTom Waits – Bad As Me
Tom Waits' music does what all great art should, it creates worlds. His is a universe as vivid and colourful as any film despite the fact they’re birth... Read more »| 24 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Fruit Tree Foundation Showcase @ Nobles, 20 October
Mentors Withered Hand, James Yorkston and Rod Jones performed with upcoming songwriters Marie Collins, Liz Cronin and Lucy Cathcart Frödén to sho... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
Live MusicHerman Dune @ King Tut's, 16 October
In recent months, Jon Hamm, a blue yeti, and a Spanish lager endorsement have proffered two versions of the perfect Herman Dune show. The Hamm-and-furball-st... Read more »| 21 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Cruel Summer EP
To coincide with what Aidan Moffat calls his ‘first proper tour in five years’ the former Arab Strap raconteur and current collaborator Bill Well... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Noel Gallagher spoke recently of the follow up to his first solo album, promising an experimental collaboration with FSOL's psychedelic arm, Amorphous Androg... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011
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Live Music
Tindersticks @ Usher Hall, 16 October
French film director Claire Denis formed a creative connection with Tindersticks in 1995. Tonight, the textures of her works (including 35 Rhums, Vendredi So... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
Justice – Audio, Video, Disco
The four years taken to produce a follow-up to 2007’s † inevitably raises suspicions that Justice have been experiencing Difficult Sec... Read more »| 18 Oct 2011 -
ReviewsDamu – Unity
Unity is one of the more counter-intuitive off-shoots of UK bass music's amorphous, lexically-challenged evolution. Almost completely cleaved... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
aCivilian – Invention
Given that Phil Critten’s persona seemingly hovers somewhere between Mother Theresa and a Norfolkian Jack Kerouac, it’s little wonder that his ... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
News
Warp Films, ATP festival and Vincent Moon want your money
On Burning, director Vincent Moon worked with Mogwai; on A Skin, A Night, he worked with The National; for La Blogothèque’s Take-Away Shows, he ... Read more »| 13 Oct 2011 -
Interviews
A Little Night Music: Tindersticks and Claire Denis
Tindersticks’ performance of their soundtracks for French filmmaker Claire Denis at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, along with footage from the accompanying films, will be an atmospheric blend of cinema and music as live performance. Read more »| 12 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Gruff Rhys @ Bongo Club, 8 October
The latent tension of a heavily oversubscribed Bongo Club and a few early technical "malfunctions" fail to deter Gruff Rhys from his stated mission; that of ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2011 -
Interviews
Kid Koala: "I'm not a dancefloor type of guy!"
Kid Koala has never been just your average turntablist. With his new graphic novel and album, he wants to take you beyond the dancefloor, to the stars… Read more »| 12 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
True Widow / Vom / The Downs @ Captain's Rest, 10 October
Both of tonight’s support acts bear superficial similarities with their headliner – being guitar/bass/drums trios that rely heavily (excuse the p... Read more »| 12 Oct 2011