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 MusicStag and Dagger 2010 @ Various Venues, Glasgow, 22 May
While not as dependent on the weather as its field-based brethren, wandering between city-festival venues is infinitely more pleasurable on a balmy, pre-summ... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
ReviewsRadar Brothers – The Illustrated Garden
A new Radar Bros album is as welcome as a cooling breeze from an open window amidst a room otherwise full of obnoxious, clamouring musical wannabes, throwing... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
ReviewsIslet – Celebrate This Place
Little is known about Welsh quartet, Islet, a band which eschews the postmodern trappings of MySpace, Twitter and the like in favour of a low key – but... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
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Far – At Night We Live
Any subsequent releases by Far were always going to face tough comparisons to their 1998 masterpiece Water And Solutions. With twelve years of altern... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
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Nina Nastasia – Outlaster
Despite being blessed with a name that sounds like a major label’s riposte to Christina Aguilera, Nina Nastasia is much vaunted in indieland. T... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
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The Kays Lavelle – Be Still This Gentle Morning
Edinburgh boys The Kays Lavelle open debut album Be Still This Gentle Morning with the cinematic sweep of The Hours, and in doing so make a bold statement of... Read more »| 26 May 2010
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Live MusicSoulfly @ Studio 24, Edinburgh, 19 May
After an intensely hot 45 minute wait, the crowd are already sweating as the intro to Blood Fire War Hate – from Soulfly's 2008 album, Conquer &nd... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
ReviewsThe Magic Numbers – The Runaway
The Magic Numbers, God bless them, seem to have created such a blandly benevolent image of themselves that many (especially the paparazzi) will find it diffi... Read more »| 26 May 2010 -
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Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
It seems every other week there’s a sensitive soul, acoustic guitar in tow, streams of literary loveliness, and a big burning candle of compete... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Just as ‘Hollywood’ no longer refers solely to a geographical place but an idea or style, ‘Brooklyn’, in music, has become a state of... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Chrome Hoof – Crush Depth
‘Experimental orchestra’ Chrome Hoof seem to get weirder and more ambitious with each release. On Crush Depth the early electronic influences are... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Bronto Skylift – The White Crow
They say a band is only as good as its drummer, and with that in mind Bronto Skylift could be an earth-shattering proposition. Technical proficiency is somet... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Crystal Castles Debut Album Review
There are two faces to Ontario’s Crystal Castles, both physically and musically. Comprised of show-stealing frontwoman Alice Glass and the seemingly re... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders - Red Light Fever
While Foo Fighters have settled into the complacent middle-age of stadium rock, drummer Taylor Hawkins isn’t going down without a fight. Most of the so... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Appaloosa - Savana
Appaloosa peddle some rather tasty instrumental funk-rock. And, just to clarify, that’s genuine, butt-shaking beauties, rather than the kind of white-g... Read more »| 25 May 2010