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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ReviewsCorpses - Half Elvis EP
Corpses feral mixture of Converge and Cancer Bats is a furious spectacle in the flesh and comes highly recommended. Understandably, given most young bands li... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
FestivalsBiffy Clyro @ Corn Exchange, 21 Aug
Mancunian quintet Oceansize and their self-proclaimed progressive death indie live up to their name. It takes a good four songs of predominantly new material... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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The Social Services - It's Nothing Personal, It's National Security
Two-thirds Glaswegian/one-third Swedish indie-poppers The Social Services have a love-hate relationship with drummer Martin Frödén’s home n... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Live MusicLovvers @ Sneaky Pete's, 21 Aug
Having added an extra guitarist into the mix for this tour, Lovvers beef up their wiry studio sound with Hüsker Dü-sized reverb, the result being a... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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Nespresco - Occam's Razor EP
Piano-led rock has rarely flourished of late in Scotland. With their debut EP, Glasgow’s Nespresco go against the grain, doggedly and sometimes success... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Live Music
X-Lion Tamer @ National Portrait Gallery, 21 Aug
Nestled into the central alcove of the National Portrait Gallery, in front of a 13ft graffiti mural of Jesus, Tony Taylor and his preppy v-neck is a somewhat... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009
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Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Seattle survivors make good with their first studio album in 14 years Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
ReviewsVivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
The second full-length from Brooklyn's Vivian Girls is a bit like a Woody Allen film: the plot has moved on, but the main ingredients remain resolutely the s... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
ReviewsThe Victorian English Gentlemens Club – Love On An Oil Rig
Wilfully weird, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club are a band that will remain half-hidden in the darker extremities of British indie. No T4 spots, Radio ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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Enfant Bastard - Hunks Killing Arm/Accelerated Donkey Song (Leaf Style)
Cameron Watt should be designated a National Treasure. Even in a country so ludicrously teaming with musical talent, Watt's single-minded devotion to the DIY... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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Christ. - Distance Lends Enchantment to the View
Some people struggle to shake off an association. There are those who pander to the expectation that comes with that association, and there are others (Chris... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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Mew - No More Stories...
Alas, it seems unlikely that as a consequence of No More Stories, Mew are going to escape the all-too frequent comparisons with ethereal Icelanders Sigur R&o... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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Monsters of Folk - Monsters of Folk
Americana supergroup hit the spot with superb debut release Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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++Money Can't Buy Music - The Universe for Beginners
Gordon McIntyre has steadfastedly ploughed the emotive indie furrow since the late 1990s in the guise of ballboy, but here branches out into a collaboration ... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009 -
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The Dodos - Time to Die
Second album syndrome shouldn’t affect The Dodos’ latest LP - Time to Die is actually the San Francisco outfit’s third studio recording. Ye... Read more »| 25 Aug 2009