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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ReviewsRingo Deathstarr – Colour Trip
Texas based Ringo Deathstarr are the latest band of pilgrims to fixate their sound on the My Bloody Valentine sonic template, so it is with some trepidation ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
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Gay For Johnny Depp – What Doesn't Kill You, Eventually Kills You
It's fitting that the songs on What Doesn't Kill You, Eventually Kills You are imbued with the same sense of deadpan nihilism that the album's title might su... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
ReviewsTakumi Uesaka / Peter Broderick – Glimmer
With Glimmer, the aim was simple: make music for a quiet midnight, but even with the same goal in mind, Takumi Uesaka and Peter Broderick’s contributio... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Live MusicLive Music Highlights – February 2011
Blending druggy guitars, sinister ambience and wordy, gothic lyrical themes, Esben and the Witch are one of the more intriguing acts currently threatening to... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
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Stanley Odd – Pure Anti-hero Material EP
The Odd Squad's debut Oddio showed promise: Solareye's direct, witty, well-constructed flows meshed well with the funk-jazz stylings of the band, and Veronic... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
Live Music
Efterklang @ Òran Mór, 24 Feb
Still fresh from their elegant masterpiece of last year, Magic Chairs, ambitious Danish posse Efterklang head back to Glasgow's Òran Mór for a ... Read more »| 01 Feb 2011
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FestivalsGlasgow Film Festival 2011: The Music Strand
Gigs are conducted on stages in music venues; films are shown in cinemas. In its third year, the Glasgow Music and Film Festival takes such received wisdom a... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
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The Luyas – Too Beautiful to Work
Too Beautiful to Work’s dizzying title track sets out an impressive stall. “No one could follow” incants Jessie Stein over repetitive organ... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
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Religious To Damn – Glass Prayer
That Zohra Atash, vocalist and the brains to Religious to Damn’s spiritualistic brawn, once spent time filling in for Jarboe will come as no surprise t... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – February 2011
In the face of the recent panic that 'rock/guitar music is finally dead', we feel obliged to reassure all those lamenting some kind of rock-pocalypse that yo... Read more »| 31 Jan 2011 -
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Mogwai – Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
It's hard to believe five Hamiltonians could last in the premier league of anything for this long but, as Mogwai prepare to release their seventh studio albu... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
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Various Artists – Woolly Jumpers
This collection from scattershot French label Wool Recordings is nothing if not testing. Its 18 tracks kick off with the sickly Drug Song by Dave Bixby, an o... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
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...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Tao of the Dead
It's to their credit that, some seventeen years into their career, Trail of Dead still court the image of a relatively cutting-edge act. These days the produ... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
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Bear Claw – Refuse This Gift
Two bass guitars, one drum kit and an abundance of bloody good ideas: that about sums up the ingredients behind this Steve Albini-recorded Chicago trio. Grit... Read more »| 28 Jan 2011 -
Interviews
Tu Fawning: Out Like Bats
Motivated by classical influences and hailing from backgrounds that have little to do with the dark matter of their music, Joe Haege gives a whistle-stop introduction to the enigma of Portland misfits Tu Fawning Read more »| 27 Jan 2011