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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Live MusicJapandroids @ Sneaky Pete's, 13 Nov
Technical problems hold up tonights This Is Music at a sold-out Sneaky Pete's, meaning opening band Bronto Skylift take the stage an hour behind schedule. A ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
ReviewsThem Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
What do you get when you cross Led Zep’s John Paul Jones with Jimmy Page worshipper and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, and Dave Grohl &nd... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
ReviewsShrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
The notion of lineage looms large for many heavy metal subgenres, and probably none more so than that of stoner doom. Consequently, this debut collaboration ... Read more »| 16 Nov 2009 -
Festivals
Sound Festival & IMP present Chemikal Underground Records
Chemikal Underground’s fifteen year reign as a certifiable, yet humble, giant of Scottish indie is clearly apparent through the imprint’s... Read more »| 12 Nov 2009 -
Live Music
Mew @ ABC, 5 Nov
Pitchfork may have ridiculously yet somehow quite perfectly summarised Mew as “Queensryche meets Sigur Ros” in times gone by, but No More Stories... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
Live Music
Daniel Johnston @ Queen's Hall, 4 Nov
From the eerie silence filling the packed auditorium of the Queen's Hall, it’s clear that this is no ordinary gig. The usual pint-holding scrum of atte... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009
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Live Music
Maps @ Nice'n' Sleazy, 6 Nov
Northampton duo Maps (ostensibly helmed by James Chapman) certainly have a solid fan base, if tonight's worship-like stance by the audience's front row is an... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
Live MusicJack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers @ Stereo, 7 Nov
After settling down into his fold-up chair, Nathan Bowles convinces a receptive crowd to conquer their shyness and come closer to the stage. Seated a... Read more »| 11 Nov 2009 -
Live Music
Yo La Tengo @ ABC, 6 Nov
The return of Yo La Tengo to Scottish shores carries an air of expectation. ABC1 draws a huddle of early comers for ex-Gorky's frontman Euros Childs' (***) c... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Reviews
Blueflint - High Bright Morning
With First Aid Kit spearheading the current 'traditional' revival within mainstream folk, the time seems ripe for talented Edinburgh duo Blueflint to cross o... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
InterviewsPlaying The Field
Following on from his critically successful debut, The Field returns to move our hearts and feet at Optimo this month. The Skinny reflects on his organic techno and has a word with the man himself. Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Reviews
Violet Violet - The City is Full of Beasts
At its heart, punk ditched glam spectacle for raw emotion, rejecting bourgeois musical virtuosity because it had nothing to say to the disaffected yo... Read more »| 10 Nov 2009 -
Live Music
Damien Jurado @ Stereo, 5 Nov
As a genre, rickety indie-pop carries certain advantages. It allows, for example, Zoey Van Goey to try a new set-up tonight, disclaim “we’re flyi... Read more »| 09 Nov 2009 -
Reviews
The Kabeedies - Rumpus
The Kabeedies are not a band, they're a collection of new wave robots -seemingly powered by sherbert dip and cherry coke- who bang out pop with such single m... Read more »| 09 Nov 2009 -
Interviews
Shred Yr Face III: Woods
Barely a year old, this autumn's third Shred Yr Face tour segues on from the successes of previous DIY dream teams which featured Los Campesinos!, No Age and Times New Viking (SYF1), not to mention February's zero BS punk rawk combo of The Bronx, Fucked Up and Rolo Tomassi. The Skinny profiles two of the three bands comprising this leg's 'psych-folk' contingent before they roll into Scotland. Enter the Woods... Read more »| 06 Nov 2009