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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ReviewsPlum - Different Skin
Benbecula Records [sadly closing its doors in November - ed] can always be relied upon to deliver the offbeat, the oddball and the out-of-the-ordinary, and t... Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
ReviewsNurses - Apple's Acre
A beautiful blend of Animal Collective and Yeasayer that comes highly recommended. Read more »| 04 Aug 2009 -
FestivalsPitchfork Music Festival 2009
Jamie Scott heads Stateside to Chicago, the home of the internet generation's most notorious music critic for the Pitchfork Music Festival. Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
ReviewsPissed Jeans - King of Jeans
Pissed Jeans are pissed off. Pissed off that they're becoming the white collar drones they swore to Tyler Durden they’d never be. Pissed off about havi... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
Interviews
Metric: A New System
Canadian synth-rockers Metric recently broke a four year silence with an assured fourth album, Fantasies, earlier this year. Ryan Drever sits down with guitarist James Shaw to find out what the hell took them so long Read more »| 03 Aug 2009 -
Reviews
We The Faceless - Isle Of Dogs
Isle Of Dog's dirty, chugging riff, sluggishly bursts into life like a fat man hopping through a ring of fire. It is meaty, I'll give it that, but once you g... Read more »| 03 Aug 2009
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Live Music
Going Local
With such top-notch acts as David Byrne and Jeffrey Lewis, this year’s Edge Festival in Edinburgh is not to be sniffed at. However, if you look beyond such high-profile events you’ll also find a whole host of unmissable local talent this August, finds Milo McLaughlin and Dave Kerr Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen - August, 2009
This month's CD stack runs the gamut from East Neuk folk to South London hip-hop. Nick Mitchell packs his earphones for the journey Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Interviews
Amanda Fucking Palmer
Former Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer returns to Edinburgh this month with her solo punk cabaret. Before she does, Nine bends her ear on matters of the art Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Interviews
Chali 2na: Catch Of The Day
Through his tenure at the helm of hip-hop collective Jurassic 5, Chali 2na established himself as a talented and instantly recognisable MC. Following the group's untimely demise in 2007, 2na steps out on his own with the long overdue Fish Outta Water this month. Ryan Drever talks to the man himself to find out how it came to be Read more »| 31 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
The xx – xx
If ‘spectral pop’ is to be the tag that follows London quartet The xx and their debut album, then they can probably rest easy as it’s not e... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
InterviewsSexy Beasts
With a new record packed with carnal energy to promote, Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe wants to celebrate Britain's sensuous side, he tells Duncan Forgan. Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
Opinion
In the Studio: Nine Black Alps
It's the last day on our stay at Beethoven Street studios in London. We've spent four days here and ten days in a remote farm studio in North Wales recording... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players - Folk Songs
A deliberate reaction to recent folk-mutations, Folk Songs sees James Yorkston take time out from his work with The Athletes to record eleven traditional tra... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
Festivals
Wickerman 2009
Strangely, but thankfully, the Wickerman Festival near Dumfries is a Friday-Saturday weekender, not a Saturday-Sunday affair. That's fortunate because when T... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009