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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InterviewsRegarding Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins has come a long way in his 30 year career thus far. From fronting one of the most important bands of the 1980s — Black Flag — to hi... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
FestivalsTransmusicales 2009
It’s just gone 6pm and the crowd at La Salle de la Cite in Rennes is bearing witness to an unusual testimony. On stage, a lanky young Scot called Derek... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
InterviewsKraftwerk - The Catalogue
Self-styled Man Machine Milo McLaughlin delves into The Catalogue, a box set of eight remastered versions of classic Kraftwerk albums from 1975's Autobahn to 2003's Tour De France Soundtracks. As a body of work, it's the ultimate celebration of their 40th Anniversary. Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
Christmas Songwriters Club @ Leith Docker's Club, 23 Dec
The Christmas Songwriter’s Club adheres to three rules - sort of. One: no covers (apart from Bart Eagleowl’s hesitant attempt at Withered Hand&rs... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Live MusicDeSalvo @ Stereo, 19 Dec
The scene is in full effect tonight as a triple bill of local fixtures makes the fur stand up on everyone’s back, ladies included. Openers Gummy Stumps... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Gift of Gab
Quannum MC and Blackalicious lynchpin Gift of Gab pictures life as Khan from Star Trek II, marooned on a dead planet with a record player and 10 choice slabs... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010
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Reviews
You Me At Six - Hold Me Down
To underestimate angst rock is a dangerous practice. To those who have escaped adolescence in one piece, the aimless yelping of the latest mosh-by-numbers em... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Reviews
Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
As one half of prolific hip-hop duo Blackalicious, Tim Parker lived up to his alias with a flow that's seen him described by AllMusic as "one of the top MCs ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
Them Crooked Vultures @ Corn Exchange, 15 Dec
Josh Homme embraces an expectant crowd consisting of – let’s not fool ourselves now – curious Queens, Foos and Zeppelin fans like he&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Jan 2010 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen - January 2010
From George Formby to Mariachi horns, this month's Dozen is as weird as that time Steve Coogan dated Courtney Love. Finbarr Bermingham casts a scrutinous eyeball over January's singles. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Interviews
Dark Side of the Falco
Two years after dropping their debut album into the musical ring, Future of the Left returned for round two last year with the brilliant Travels With Myself and Another. Andrew Falkous came out fighting (eventually) to take on writer’s block, success haters and pin-dick journalists, The Skinny steps up to referee before they hit King Tut's this month. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Reviews
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - Know Better, Learn Faster
US singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen's second album in collaboration with The Get Down Stay Down is a singular creature: a break-up record which somehow evokes t... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – January 2010
The Southern State of Georgia has become an unlikely metal mainstay of sorts over the last decade in a grassroots rebranding feat that draws attention away f... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Reviews
HiM - ?
They may have started out under the dub umbrella, but HiM, the portal through which California-based Doug Scharin pushes his sonic envelope, are now a very d... Read more »| 01 Jan 2010 -
Interviews
A Roadmap For New Bands In 2010
Greg Kane is a musician (one half of pop-soul duo Hue and Cry), and an expert on digital content production. As a board member of the newly established Scottish Music Industry Association, here he offers guidelines to musicians on how to maximise their chances of success. Read more »| 01 Jan 2010