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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ReviewsFirst Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
If 2010's The Big Black & The Blue marked their initial emergence from the backwoods of Stockholm from the resonant echoes of their now notorious Fleet F... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsHowler – America Give Up
Minnesotan quintet Howler need to cut loose from their influences, or seek out new ones. The debts to The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy and The Strokes'... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsThe Big Pink – Future This
Two years on from their acclaimed debut A Brief History of Love, this London-based electro-shoegaze duo here augment the narcotic atmospheres of that record ... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsDear Reader – Idealistic Animals
Idealistic Animals, the second record from South Africa’s Dear Reader, sees now-sole member Cheri MacNeil relocated to Berlin from Johannesburg. The al... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
ReviewsLAL – LAL
For thirteen years, LAL have sat proudly outside the mainstream, embodying a multicultural, multi-genre approach that combines political activism with elemen... Read more »| 02 Jan 2012 -
Festivals
Wee Dub Festival @ Various Edinburgh Venues, 3-5 Feb
The Wee Dub Festival is back: this time it's a whole lot bigger and it has a Mad Professor at the controls Read more »| 31 Dec 2011
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Live Music
In Pictures: Vic Galloway presents... @ Electric circus, 15 December
Photos from Vic Galloway presents at the Electric circus with Scott Hutchison, James Yorkston and more. Photography by Sol Nicol Read more »| 21 Dec 2011 -
Live Music
In Pictures: Phantomime @ Stereo, 16 December
All the action from first night of The Phantom Band's Phantomime, which featured sets by Holy Mountain, Muscles of Joy, as well as the hosts themselves. Pho... Read more »| 21 Dec 2011 -
Reviews
Vakunøht – Gagarin's Start
Former members of Senator and Bangtwister weave psychedelic tales of space travel, mysterious transcripts and alien parasites on this debut as, essentially a... Read more »| 20 Dec 2011 -
Live Music
Malcolm Middleton / Human Don’t Be Angry @ Òran Mór, 15 December
Providing some self support, Malcolm Middleton sets this evening’s gathering in motion under his Human Don’t Be Angry guise, with a collection of... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
Live Music
Galoshins / Mr Peppermint / The Cosmic Dead / Battery Face @ 13th Note, 18 December
Thank goodness for The 13th Note. In the last decade this ragged, unpretentious little bar has been an enduring champion of the Scottish underground as other... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
Live Music
In Pictures: Phantomime @ Stereo, 17 December
All the action from second night of The Phantom Band's Phantomime, which featured sets by Take A Worm For A Walk Week and Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate L... Read more »| 19 Dec 2011 -
Reviews
Kobra Audio Labs – Two Blue Towers
K.A.L.'s new release is a musical homage to his hometown of Wishaw. Part audio-collage, part art object, it is released via Bandcamp as a limited-edition cas... Read more »| 13 Dec 2011 -
Live Music
Plastikman @ Barrowland, 3 December
There is, inevitably, plenty of hype preceding Plastikman’s appearance at the Barrowlands tonight: one of only three UK dates, it represents a rare opp... Read more »| 12 Dec 2011 -
Live Music
The Lemonheads @ Òran Mór, 5 December
There’s always been something appealingly incongruous about Evan Dando’s approach: simultaneously an angst-ridden college rock icon, and the lova... Read more »| 09 Dec 2011