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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InterviewsA Chemikal Solution
After 15 years in the game, Chemikal Underground is showing no let-up in releasing great music. In fact, co-founder Alun Woodward tells Darren Carle that it’s time to turn up the heat. Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
OpinionI Hear a New World - February, 2009
Unusual and innovative music from Scotland and beyond. Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
ReviewsThe Travelling Band – Desolate Icicle
It’s not challenging but convivial, and that’s entirely the point Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
Live MusicNoisy Nights @ The Traverse Theatre Bar, 23 Feb
‘Write score, submit score, come along, have score played by Red Note Ensemble, drink beer, fall over’ Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
ReviewsTitus Andronicus – The Airing of Grievances
They come from Springsteen country and burn with a similar passion for life in all its raw hope and blunt frustration Read more »| 03 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
St Deluxe – St Deluxe
We’re in the '90s grunge-rock ballpark, and St Deluxe seem happy enough to stay there Read more »| 02 Feb 2009
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Reviews
U2 - Get On Your Boots
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s artwork for U2’s forthcoming album, No Line On The Horizon, may be more apt than he realises. Get On Your Boots is not so much... Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Live Music
The Bulleit Originals: Marlena Shaw @ The Caves, 30 Jan
New York soul veteran blows the cobwebs off The Caves, despite having to deal with a strangely disinterested crowd Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Live Music
Stricken City @ Captain's Rest, 25 Feb
The cosy Captain's Rest seems an ideal venue to catch the critically acclaimed Stricken City. Hyped to the hilt, this indie-pop brigade sound quite unlike an... Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
Seasick Steve - Happy Man
This month the hobo hero Seasick Steve gets around to releasing the first single from his new album, I Started Out With Nothin’… and I Still Got... Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen - February 2009
Two '80s icons crash the party this month, but are they going to embarrass themselves among the fresh-faced indie kids? Nick Mitchell finds out Read more »| 02 Feb 2009 -
Interviews
Fabrizio Moretti: A Fine Modern Gentleman, With No Regard For The Smoking Ban
“We can’t smoke in there?”, asks Fabrizio Moretti, drummer of some band called the Strokes, understanding but a little flabbergasted as we ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2009 -
Reviews
A Camp - Colonia
Second LP from The Cardigans singer Nina Persson's solo outlet. Read more »| 30 Jan 2009 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - February, 2009
Spread the word: Edinburgh's filthiest glam/punk sons The Vivians play their homecoming gig on 6 February at Cabaret Voltaire and it's free entry, so this on... Read more »| 30 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Grand Duchy - Petit Fours
"My oldest boy, he likes his tomato sauce with pasta so sometimes I've got to make it really quickly but I don't like using jars of sauces. So the first thin... Read more »| 30 Jan 2009