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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Or, The Whale - Light Poles and Pines
A competent record, but gives the impression that there's a better one inside them fighting to get out Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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MGR vs. SirDSS - Impromptu
One to hurt your ears and mess with your head Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ReviewsKula Shaker - Strangefolk
Pretentious, pseudo-psychedelic classic rock influenced nonsense Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ReviewsGretchen Lieberum - Siren Songs
Works best when it plays up its light jazz roots Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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End Of Level Boss - Inside The Difference Engine
Modern and precocious metal sans pretension Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Dragons - Here Are The Roses
It's a tribute to Joy Division, basically Read more »| 09 Aug 2007
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Caribou - Andorra
Subtle experimentation with dense washes of sublime sound opening themselves up for exploration Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ReviewsArthur & Yu - In Camera
A lo-fi folk gem of a record steeped in the sounds of a bygone era Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
The kind of daring, expansive romanticism that separates the Pumpkins from everyone else Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Festivals
Roskilde, Denmark, 5-8 Jul
With images of a mud-filled Glastonbury fresh in our mind and with weather reports suggesting similar fare at our southern Scandinavian destination, the Skinny was perhaps rightfully fretful... Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Live Music
Summercase @ Madrid
Most two year-olds are notoriously badly-behaved, but not Summercase... Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Live Music
Tiger Lillies @ Usher Hall
Deftly combining jaw dropping virtuosity with Bible-black comedy, the Tiger Lillies are truly an unmissable live act Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
ReviewsChrome Hoof - Pre-Emptive False Rapture
Thundering riffs are forced blunt-ways into disco grooves Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Minus the Bear
The Skinny finds Dave Knudson in particularly laid-back form as he dishes the news from camp MTB and tosses us a few curveballs from their record collection… Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
Live Music
Live Music Roundup - August
Dinosaur Jr hit up Edinburgh once again in their original formation on 27 Aug Read more »| 09 Aug 2007