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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ReviewsL'Altra – Telepathic
Infidelity is usually quite an unpleasant affair, but Lindsay Anderson and Joseph Desler Costa take a distinctly different approach to the matter. Their brea... Read more »| 20 Apr 2011 -
ReviewsVarious – One Inch Badge Presents Sea Monsters: The Best of Brighton
Though they’ve since delivered records from the likes of Why? and Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Brighton-based label One Inch Badge remain besotte... Read more »| 20 Apr 2011 -
Live Music...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead / Rival Schools @ The Garage, 17 April
Whilst not visible from inside the Garage, there’s a full moon out tonight which may explain why the crowd opt to pose along the bar rather than headin... Read more »| 19 Apr 2011 -
Live MusicThe Unthanks @ Queen's Hall, 15 Apr
It’s probably praising with faint damnation to suggest that Glasgow-based four-piece Trembling Bells definitely have more convincing live performances ... Read more »| 19 Apr 2011 -
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Kafka – Geografia
Geografia, the soundtrack to Frank Micheletti’s identically-monikered dance, even without the benefit of a visual accompaniment still manages to retain... Read more »| 19 Apr 2011 -
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Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
This material has been in existence for pushing on two years now and was originally to be released as Part 1, which will now be released at some unknown late... Read more »| 19 Apr 2011
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Monoganon – Songs to Swim To
While the songs on Monoganon’s debut 12" may have been around in some format for a while now, to write this LP off as a redundant expansion would be a ... Read more »| 19 Apr 2011 -
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Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat – Everything’s Getting Older
Considering the frequency that ageing pops up as a lyrical theme on Everything’s Getting Older, it’s appropriate that it took former Arab Strap m... Read more »| 18 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
James Blake: "The nature of dubstep is one of progression"
2011's great white hype James Blake on keeping his family life private, and why his debut LP was definitely not dubstep Read more »| 13 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Glasvegas: Out of Exile
Returning from the wilderness with album number two this month, Glasvegas frontman James Allan reveals the reasons for the band's retreat Read more »| 13 Apr 2011 -
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Asobi Seksu – Fluorescence
It may seem a trite observation applicable to any band, but Asobi Seksu are at their best when they sound like themselves. Often, the Seksu listening experie... Read more »| 12 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Kode9 & The Spaceape: Under the Black Sun
Five years on from their landmark debut, Kode 9 and The Spaceape return to reinvent bass music once more with the epic follow-up, Black Sun. Welcome to their world... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
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Nick Hudson and the Academy of Sun – My Antique Son
Nick Hudson’s audial explorations over the past few years have garnered him an impressive collection of admirers, from Meredith Monk to Current 93&rsqu... Read more »| 11 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Adam Goldberg, Dilettante?
dil·et·tante?/?dili?tänt/ –noun 1. a person who studies an art or subject merely for amusement; dabbler. 2. a lover of an art or science. 3. Adam Goldberg? Read more »| 08 Apr 2011 -
Interviews
Trembling Bells' Alex Neilson: "I’d probably be a professional footballer if it wasn’t for Trout Mask Replica"
With Trembling Bells’ third album on the way, drummer Alex Neilson is all too happy to debate the finer points of folk music Read more »| 08 Apr 2011