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 MusicSt Deluxe @ Stereo, 6 Feb
It's always a shame when an audience is tardy, leaving a band like Licker (***) to play to the walls. However, the band themselves don't seem too fazed and m... Read more »| 09 Feb 2010 -
Live Music
Lou Barlow @ Stereo, 1 Feb
Despite a somewhat underwhelming visit with Sebadoh in 2008, Lou Barlow returns to Glasgow tonight in considerably more triumphant fashion with a sol... Read more »| 08 Feb 2010 -
InterviewsNotes on a Podcast: Constellation Processional 2010
In a Skinny exclusive, Constellation Records' founders Ian Ilavsky and Don Wilkie offer an insight into the inspirational Canadian label's present and future output – while also paying tribute to the late Vic Chesnutt – with this specially curated podcast dubbed Constellation Processional 2010. Read more »| 08 Feb 2010 -
Interviews
Thee Silver Mt Zion: Setting the World to Rights
With Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Efrim Menuck provided the soundtrack to our pre-millennial paranoia. Now that all our worst fears have come true, he's giving voice to our 21st-century blues with Thee Silver Mt. Zion and lamenting the tragic loss of late musician and good friend Vic Chesnutt. Read more »| 08 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Kings Ballad
Fresh from collaborating with Mos Def, Georgia Anne Muldrow returns with an offering of 19 of her own fonk-packed tracks. Such a sprawling, skit-free track l... Read more »| 08 Feb 2010 -
Live Music
Chemikal Underground @ ABC, 31 Jan
There is a warmth to be found in the busy ABC tonight which is not simply the cumulative effect of bodyheat. Chemikal Underground are 15 years old and are th... Read more »| 05 Feb 2010
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Interviews
From The Jungle To The Dancefloor: The Progression of Yeasayer
It's a new decade and Yeasayer are full of the joys. The Skinny spoke to a loved up Chris Keating to get the lowdown on Odd Blood. Read more »| 05 Feb 2010 -
ReviewsPensioner - Pensioner EP
There’s little straightforward about Pensioner. The name’s a misnomer, their history is written in colourful, far-flung prose, whilst this self-t... Read more »| 05 Feb 2010 -
Festivals
Friends of Manchester Festival 2010
Friends Of Manchester returns for 2010 to boast a line up of 80 acts over 7 stages of hibernation-ending guitars, drums and whispers of ‘next big thing’ Read more »| 05 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
Balbec - Rise And Fall Of A Decade
New self-released album from Parisian outfit. Read more »| 05 Feb 2010 -
ReviewsNedry - Condors
They may have crafted their sound amidst the frenetic urban sprawl of London, yet native trio Nedry’s debut album is entirely defined by its sp... Read more »| 04 Feb 2010 -
Reviews
Baby Dee - Book Of Songs
The press release for Book Of Songs declares Baby Dee “the epitome of the phrase ‘back story’”. Surprisingly, this apparent hyperbole... Read more »| 04 Feb 2010 -
ReviewsShearwater - The Golden Archipelago
With six full albums as well as a litter of other smaller efforts now safely in the bag, Shearwater's ability to write consistently excellent, affecting mode... Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Interviews
Shearwater: Cosmic Castaways
Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg could simply have said "the new record's about islands, sounds a bit like Talk Talk." But oh no, he went cosmic on our ass. Read more »| 03 Feb 2010 -
Interviews
Down with the Prophets: The John Knox Sex Club interviewed
Having played enviable support slots and crossover gigs in clubs and galleries throughout their 18 months of existence, The John Knox Sex Club's helter-skelter art rock has proven a love/hate affair Read more »| 03 Feb 2010