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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ReviewsThe Zephyrs – Fool of Regrets
By the time most bands make it to five albums they’ve usually gone one of two ways: either they’re tackling their evolving musical tastes with il... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
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Cancel the Astronauts – Funny For A Girl EP
Despite being one of Edinburgh’s most underrated bands, Cancel the Astronauts like to sound mighty triumphant. EP number two, Funny For A Girl, finds t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Live MusicWilco @ Barrowlands, 16 Sep
Last Year saw Wilco (the band) release Wilco (the album) to typically effusive acclaim. I wonder if even Jeff Tweedy gets tired of being so good some... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Fang Island @ Captain's Rest, 5 Sep
Fang Island describe their sound as "everybody high-five-ing each other", a feeling which pretty much covers the stadium-sized guitar-shredding, clat... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsBear in Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth: Remixed
Following on from its UK release this May, the Brooklyn disco hipsters latest album Beast Rest Forth Mouth became the party album of the summer, albe... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsBaths – Cerulean
In a year where Flying Lotus has delivered one of the most talked-about releases with his sprawling, electronic opus Cosmogramma, it seems a new generation o... Read more »| 16 Aug 2010
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Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea – I Watched It From The Roadside
Brighton post-punk four-piece Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea begin their EP by rehashing Slow News Day from previous release A Small Version of a Part... Read more »| 16 Aug 2010 -
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Being 747 – Amoeba to Zebra
I'm not a parent but if I was my kids would be getting this CD in the ear, and I'd drag them to the live show (featuring at this year's Fringe) as well. Imag... Read more »| 15 Aug 2010 -
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Chaz Jankel – The Submarine Has Surfaced
The Blockheads (Ian Dury's old band) have always been a bit of an anomaly on the UK music scene, taking their cues just as much from soul and jazz as... Read more »| 12 Aug 2010 -
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Tweak Bird – Tweak Bird
Were you to slam a handful of Big Business and two cups of Death From Above into a hefty, sticky dough of Black Sabbath, the cake that eventually emerges wil... Read more »| 11 Aug 2010 -
Videos
The Skinny Sessions: Three Blind Wolves
Exclusive live sessions from T in the Park 2010, only at The Skinny and Radio Magnetic. Read more »| 11 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Newt @ The Lot, 7 Aug
Aberdonian guitarist Graham Stephen kicks off the evening in reflective mode, but soon enough he's heating up an already temperate room; he's got clean abstr... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Haftor Medbøe Group @ Voodoo Rooms, 6 Aug
With a line-up featuring saxaphone, trombone, drums and bass, one might expect a piano, but the chorded instrument here is Haftor Medbøe's guitar, whi... Read more »| 10 Aug 2010 -
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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. feat Shy FX - Collapsing Cities
Since stepping out from his bedroom in 2006, Get Cape… (aka Sam Duckworth) has never quite fitted the singer/songwriter mould, and the intricate rhyth... Read more »| 09 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Calvin Johnson @ Hyndland Community Hall, 3 Aug
If a poll was ever commissioned to determine a social order of indie-cred in modern music then Calvin Johnson would surely be a heavy contender for the thron... Read more »| 06 Aug 2010