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 MusicHallogallo 2010 @ HMV Picture House, 17 Aug
Tonight I figure out what's so special about the Neu! beat: it's the one groove that bypasses the hips altogether. Go to any club night and you'll shake your... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
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Two Door Cinema Club @ Òran Mór, 17 Sep
The only band from Northern Ireland to make the longlist for BBC's Sound of 2010, Bangor outfit Two Door Cinema Club comprise Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird and ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
Live MusicIsobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan @ O2 ABC, 8 Sep
There has always been something mildly perverse when it comes to the sight of the innocently framed Isobel Campbell sitting side by side with the vag... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
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Joanna Newsom @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 20 Sep
Having tempered her pixy-toned tendencies for this year’s epically ambitious, masterfully executed third album, Have One on Me, Joanna Newsom has remov... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsZola Jesus – Stridulum II
These are dark days we live in right enough – what with cuts, crashes, crises and the return of Skunk Anansie – but do we really have to add a Zo... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
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The New Pornographers @ Òran Mór, 7 Sep
The other Canadian supergroup – which is in no way to say inferior, just less omnipresent – The New Pornographers’s fifth album Tog... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010
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Miyagi – Electrosaurus
Christening your second album Electrosaurus and adorning the cover with axe-wielding thunder-lizards and a drumming diplodocus is undoubtedly awesome... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsThe Zephyrs – Fool of Regrets
By the time most bands make it to five albums they’ve usually gone one of two ways: either they’re tackling their evolving musical tastes with il... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
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Cancel the Astronauts – Funny For A Girl EP
Despite being one of Edinburgh’s most underrated bands, Cancel the Astronauts like to sound mighty triumphant. EP number two, Funny For A Girl, finds t... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Wilco @ Barrowlands, 16 Sep
Last Year saw Wilco (the band) release Wilco (the album) to typically effusive acclaim. I wonder if even Jeff Tweedy gets tired of being so good some... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Fang Island @ Captain's Rest, 5 Sep
Fang Island describe their sound as "everybody high-five-ing each other", a feeling which pretty much covers the stadium-sized guitar-shredding, clat... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Bear in Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth: Remixed
Following on from its UK release this May, the Brooklyn disco hipsters latest album Beast Rest Forth Mouth became the party album of the summer, albe... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Baths – Cerulean
In a year where Flying Lotus has delivered one of the most talked-about releases with his sprawling, electronic opus Cosmogramma, it seems a new generation o... Read more »| 16 Aug 2010 -
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Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea – I Watched It From The Roadside
Brighton post-punk four-piece Crooked Mountain, Crooked Sea begin their EP by rehashing Slow News Day from previous release A Small Version of a Part... Read more »| 16 Aug 2010 -
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Being 747 – Amoeba to Zebra
I'm not a parent but if I was my kids would be getting this CD in the ear, and I'd drag them to the live show (featuring at this year's Fringe) as well. Imag... Read more »| 15 Aug 2010