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 MusicThe Monochrome Set @ Mono, 26 Mar
Currently in their third stint together, after previously packing it in once in 1985, and then again in 1998, The Monochrome Set are a deciduous yet resilien... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
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Queens Of The Stone Age – Queens Of The Stone Age: Special Edition
In early 1998 Dave Grohl went on record naming then-unknown Californian outfit Queens Of The Stone Age as his favourite band on the planet. If that provoked ... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
ReviewsThe View – Bread & Circuses
While Mogwai and Biffy Clyro have made the success of Scottish acts less of a novelty, there’s still an odd mix of pride and all-round smugness at seei... Read more »| 25 Feb 2011 -
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Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys!
There is a poignancy to every track of Build A Rocket Boys, and a sparseness that stands in contrast to 2008's The Seldom Seen Kid. As with all of Elbow's wo... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
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Parts & Labor – Constant Future
Labelling Brooklyn’s Parts & Labor an “experimental noise-rock band” is one more reason to take user-edited encyclopaedias with a pinch... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
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Wild Palms – Until Spring
Although we are assured that London's Wild Palms subsisted on “a diet of Beefheart, The Fall, Can, and Wire” while working on the songs that comp... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011
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Live MusicVessels @ Captain's Rest, 21 Feb
It’s rare to see the Captain’s Rest dancefloor filled out like it is tonight and, given the warm reception, it’s apparent that at least a f... Read more »| 24 Feb 2011 -
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Bloodlights – Simple Pleasures
Say what you will about Norway, but they know how to make exceedingly good rock’n’roll. Perhaps the reason for this is that they believe, deep in... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
ReviewsTrapped Mice – Portrait of a Great Father EP
Edinburgh’s Trapped Mice open their new EP quietly before stomping to a crescendo, a familiar but effective trick reminiscent of, amongst others, Okker... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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Wagon Christ – Toomorrow
Luke Vibert's Wagon Christ project has been ploughing a deceptively narrow furrow for well over a decade now. It's a breezy, upbeat sound: jazzy breaks, trip... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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Port-Royal – 2000-2010: The Golden Age of Consumerism
Genoa's Port-Royal have been mining a vein lying somewhere between symphonic, free-floating post-rock and melodic electronica for over ten years now; The Gol... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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Come On Gang! – Strike A Match
The foreword to Come On Gang!’s story was penned in a tiny music room at Edinburgh College of Art, where the band met in 2007; from there they have bee... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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FOUND – Factorycraft
With their recent win of Creative Scotland's Vital Spark award and third album Factorycraft being given a leg-up by the ever daring Chemikal Underground, Edi... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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Penguins Kill Polar Bears – Vessels & Veins EP
Vessels & Veins is the second EP from plucky Linlithgow outfit Penguins Kill Polar Bears, whose sound marries dense rock riffs à la Pelican or Jes... Read more »| 23 Feb 2011 -
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The Phoenix Foundation – Buffalo
Buffalo starts uncharacteristically with the drifting psychedelia-lite of Eventually, its laid-back vibe redolent of a long musical lineage stretching back d... Read more »| 22 Feb 2011