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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ReviewsU2 - Get On Your Boots
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s artwork for U2’s forthcoming album, No Line On The Horizon, may be more apt than he realises. Get On Your Boots is not so much... Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Live Music
The Bulleit Originals: Marlena Shaw @ The Caves, 30 Jan
New York soul veteran blows the cobwebs off The Caves, despite having to deal with a strangely disinterested crowd Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Live MusicStricken City @ Captain's Rest, 25 Feb
The cosy Captain's Rest seems an ideal venue to catch the critically acclaimed Stricken City. Hyped to the hilt, this indie-pop brigade sound quite unlike an... Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
Seasick Steve - Happy Man
This month the hobo hero Seasick Steve gets around to releasing the first single from his new album, I Started Out With Nothin’… and I Still Got... Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen - February 2009
Two '80s icons crash the party this month, but are they going to embarrass themselves among the fresh-faced indie kids? Nick Mitchell finds out Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Interviews
Fabrizio Moretti: A Fine Modern Gentleman, With No Regard For The Smoking Ban
“We can’t smoke in there?”, asks Fabrizio Moretti, drummer of some band called the Strokes, understanding but a little flabbergasted as we ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2009
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Reviews
A Camp - Colonia
Second LP from The Cardigans singer Nina Persson's solo outlet. Read more »| 30 Jan 2009 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - February, 2009
Spread the word: Edinburgh's filthiest glam/punk sons The Vivians play their homecoming gig on 6 February at Cabaret Voltaire and it's free entry, so this on... Read more »| 30 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Grand Duchy - Petit Fours
"My oldest boy, he likes his tomato sauce with pasta so sometimes I've got to make it really quickly but I don't like using jars of sauces. So the first thin... Read more »| 30 Jan 2009 -
Live Music
Sky Larkin @ King Tut's, 26 Jan
After appearing in just about every ‘Tips for 2009’ feature, now Sky Larkin have to show the newly-intrigued that they’re worthy of such ea... Read more »| 29 Jan 2009 -
ReviewsM. Ward - Hold Time
Hold Time stands at 5’ 8”. She has tumbling auburn hair, wears a frail sash emblazoned with her country of origin, and stands on the catwalk with... Read more »| 29 Jan 2009 -
PlaylistsA Muso's Top 10: Parts & Labor
"The impetus for starting this band was that Dan [Friel, keys] had composed the first Parts & Labor songs on this broken toy keyboard from the 80s that h... Read more »| 29 Jan 2009 -
InterviewsMagazine: A Second Read
The post-punk pioneers turned New Wave nearly-men reunite after almost 30 years apart this month, Gillian Watson asks Howard Devoto why now? Read more »| 29 Jan 2009 -
Interviews
Sparrow & The Workshop: They've Got It All
Chicagoan Jill O'Sullivan was attracted to Glasgow by its musical culture: now she's becoming a part of it. Ally Brown gets gushy over Sparrow & The Workshop Read more »| 29 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
MV+EE - Drone Trailer
If Sonic Youth ever decided to jam with Neil Young, then they might end up in similar territory to MV+EE. Matt Valentine and Erika Elder (the MV+EE of their ... Read more »| 29 Jan 2009