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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ReviewsBeing 747 – Amoeba to Zebra
I'm not a parent but if I was my kids would be getting this CD in the ear, and I'd drag them to the live show (featuring at this year's Fringe) as well. Imag... Read more »| 15 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsChaz Jankel – The Submarine Has Surfaced
The Blockheads (Ian Dury's old band) have always been a bit of an anomaly on the UK music scene, taking their cues just as much from soul and jazz as... Read more »| 12 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Tweak Bird – Tweak Bird
Were you to slam a handful of Big Business and two cups of Death From Above into a hefty, sticky dough of Black Sabbath, the cake that eventually emerges wil... Read more »| 11 Aug 2010 -
VideosThe Skinny Sessions: Three Blind Wolves
Exclusive live sessions from T in the Park 2010, only at The Skinny and Radio Magnetic. Read more »| 11 Aug 2010 -
Live MusicNewt @ The Lot, 7 Aug
Aberdonian guitarist Graham Stephen kicks off the evening in reflective mode, but soon enough he's heating up an already temperate room; he's got clean abstr... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Haftor Medbøe Group @ Voodoo Rooms, 6 Aug
With a line-up featuring saxaphone, trombone, drums and bass, one might expect a piano, but the chorded instrument here is Haftor Medbøe's guitar, whi... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010
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Reviews
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. feat Shy FX - Collapsing Cities
Since stepping out from his bedroom in 2006, Get Cape… (aka Sam Duckworth) has never quite fitted the singer/songwriter mould, and the intricate rhyth... Read more »| 09 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Calvin Johnson @ Hyndland Community Hall, 3 Aug
If a poll was ever commissioned to determine a social order of indie-cred in modern music then Calvin Johnson would surely be a heavy contender for the thron... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Lizzard Lounge @ HMV Picture House, 30 Jul
The Picture House is a bigger venue than the Lizzard Lounge is used to (being a much loved, now passed Edinburgh club night), but the transition works well a... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Samuel Hällkvist Center @ Voodoo Rooms, 31 Jul
Joe Zawinul once said of his band Weather Report, "We never solo, and we always solo", and this gnomic remark could be usefully applied to Hällkvist's S... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Jon Cleary @ Assembly, Princes Street Gardens, 31 Jul
Jon Cleary's piano trio bring some authentic New Orleans gumbo to a sunny Edinburgh afternoon; close your eyes and you could be on Beale Street hearing the s... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Fronted by feline-enthusiast and former child actress Bethany Cosentino, these Californian pop slackers deliver their sun sozzled debut. There’s a lot ... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
The Low Anthem @ The Queen's Hall, 30 Aug
A rose-tinted view of history would suggest that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution changed the world overnight. But like most paradigm shifts, it to... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010 -
Interviews
The Edge 2010: We Were Promised Jetpacks
We Were Promised Jetpacks bassist Sean Smith lifts the lid on zealous fans, transatlantic love and the Auld Reekie quartet's second album Read more »| 05 Aug 2010 -
Interviews
Eels: The End of a Trilogy
"It's a weird way to live your life, the way I do" - E Read more »| 05 Aug 2010