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 MusicDesalvo @ Mono, 28 Sep
Lit strikingly from beneath, a heavy-set man in a butcher's apron and pig mask lurches into the midst of the swaying audience and a sweaty path is cleaved th... Read more »| 06 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsCopy Haho - Cutting Out the Bad/You Are My Coal Mine
Since 2005, Copy Haho have been sweet words on many a Scottish music critic's lips, despite a seemingly slow build for the Stonehaven four-piece. This latest... Read more »| 06 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Black Kids @ ABC, 26 Oct
Arriving earlier this year amidst a furore of hype, Reggie Youngblood and his Jacksonville cohorts’ debut E.P. Wizard of Ahhhs mixed up Robert Smith st... Read more »| 06 Oct 2008 -
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Gregory & The Hawk - Moenie and Kitchi
Young New Yorker Meredith Godreau may have named herself Gregory & The Hawk to avoid being stereotyped as 'another female singer-songwriter', but the sec... Read more »| 06 Oct 2008 -
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BSS Presents: Brendan Canning - Hit The Wall
Weird prefixes aside though, Hit The Wall is a tasty little indie-pop morsel Read more »| 06 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Ladyhawk at Nice 'n' Sleazy Review
The Canadian quartet treats Glasgow's lucky minority to some of the most well-crafted and unaffected rock music since Sebadoh's heyday Read more »| 03 Oct 2008
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Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
Mercury Rev recapture their playful spirit with an enjoyable venture into electronica. Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Is It The Sea?
In place of normal audience interaction there is a palpable sense of bewitched reverence, even retrospectively on this CD Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' And I Still Got Most Of It Left
Everybody's favourite hobo comes home to roost in disappointingly bland style Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
What now comprises The Stand Ins was originally intended to be the second disc of a double album with The Stage Names, which was instead released last year o... Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
Interviews
Go Zoey, Go Go Go
Ally Brown sits down for a pint with Zoey Van Goey, another international band based in Glasgow that we can claim as our own to strengthen the team Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsArmy of Freshmen - Above the Atmosphere
Like a huge, fake, toothy grin, this is Prozac pop-punk at its most synthetic and processed Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Putiferio - Ate Ate Ate
The translation from Italian for Putiferio means "chaos", and this record’s not short on that sentiment. Over the course of seven tracks, these contin... Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Nadja - Skin Turns To Glass
When Nadja come on you feel like everything should be moving in slow motion. There are countless oblique ways to describe Skin Turns To Glass without directl... Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
Interviews
Jenny Lewis: Born to Do It
From Hank III to Hayseed Dixie, subverting the old model of country music is no new phenomenon, nor is the rhetoric of the traditionalists who can’t get their heads around it. Rilo Kiley's frontwoman tells Dave Kerr how she cut her own path... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008