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 MusicCrystal Stilts @ Sneaky Pete’s, 22 Feb
Crystal Stilts are all about intensity. And in a space as small as Sneaky Pete's (imagine your living room, minus furniture, plus 100 indie misfits), the int... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
ReviewsFOUND – The Fidelities EP
Apparently designed to give the lie to those who say the Scottish music scene is too ponderous or introspective, Edinburgh collective FOUND are specialists i... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
InterviewsUnited Fruit: The seeds of success
United Fruit are currently lighting up the murky Glasgow underground with their unique brand of experimental rock. As the band continue to break the ice, just a year in, they sit down with Ryan Drever to tell the story so far Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
ReviewsMi Ami - Watersports
Forget what the damn press release says. There is no way this is a guy singing. That aside, Mi Ami is a rhythm-infatuated trio from San Francisco. Effervesce... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
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Wake The President - You Can't Change That Boy
There’s a familiarity to Wake the President’s debut album, partly due to its relative belatedness - some songs have been in record collections an... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
Live Music
Instal 09 @ The Arches / CCA, 20-22 Mar
Despite the demise of Triptych, the experimental music scene in Scotland has gone from strength to strength in recent years. This is in no small part attribu... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009
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XRABIT & DMG$ - Hello World
Rap producers are often guilty of selling their souls at the altar of the recording studio, gladly embracing the mixing desk as a means to tweak their artist... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
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Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band - Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
The most immediate thing about this record is a frolicking yelp, somewhere between Steve Bays and Tim Harrington - high, stabbing vocals which are quite inap... Read more »| 26 Feb 2009 -
Live Music
Tricky @ The Arches, 19 Feb
His trademark rasp might be buried in the mix, but stadium-aspiring pretenders would do well to emulate Tricky’s panache. Walking on to an instrumental... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
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Red Light Company – Fine Fascination
Red Light Company make no bones about the fact that they’re here “to make a huge record”. And with their debut they have fulfilled this aim... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
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Bronto Skylift - Eagle/Falcon
What with the fashionable rise of happy-clappy dross à la the Knack-pilfering Ting Tings in recent times, it’s not often a two-piece like Bronto... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
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Rush - Retrospective III
It's Rush, for goodness' sake Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
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Wavves - So Bored
Music fans of a certain age might remember this guy from the nineties called Beck. He made fuzzy, lo-fi, lazy-sounding stoner anthems that hid a wealth of id... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
Live Music
Parts & Labor @ Captain’s Rest, 16 Feb
There’s doing it yourself and there’s doing it before the head settles on a bystander’s Guinness; tonight Brooklyn quartet Parts & Labo... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009 -
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The Long Lost - The Long Lost
The romantic ideals that hippies espouse are often more appealing than hippies themselves; free love and flower power all sound fine in principle, but they'r... Read more »| 25 Feb 2009