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.
-
ReviewsMy Little Cheap Dictaphone – The Tragic Tale Of A Genius
My Little Cheap Dictaphone might rank among the naffest band names you'll hear all year, but thankfully their music fares better. The group is the brainchild... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010 -
News
Kyuss returning to Glasgow without Josh Homme
Following the success of frontman John Garcia's 'Plays Kyuss' tour earlier this year, fellow core members of the seminal Palm Desert stoner outfit are set to... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010 -
ReviewsWinnebago Deal – Career Suicide
To avoid confusion, I would like to point out that this third full length LP entitled Career Suicide is by punk rock 'n' roll duo Winnebago Deal; not the arg... Read more »| 03 Nov 2010 -
Live MusicSwans @ The Arches, 25 October
Opening for Swans must be one of the most daunting tasks an artist can face but James Blackshaw takes it calmly; almost too calmly, in fact. His nonplussed a... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Interviews
The Proposition: George Michael is the Most Dangerous Man in Rock'n'Roll
George Michael is the single most dangerous man in music. That, by the way, is not just because he might record again. Have you followed this maniac's path ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Reviews
Motorifik – Secret Things
It’s always a disappointment when a band call themselves something like Motorifik, the very syllables of which drip with dirty oil, sweaty leather and ... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010
-
ReviewsShipping News – One Less Heartless To Fear
As the band themselves declare, "one helluva lot has happened" to Shipping News since their terrific 2005 album Flies The Field. With founder guitarist Jason... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Reviews
Shugo Tokumaru – Port Entropy
Live, Shugo Tokumaru plies his trade with little more than an acoustic guitar and an effects pedal or two. It’s near impossible to imagine Port Entropy... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Reviews
Earth – A Bureaucratic Desire For Extracapsular Extraction
This almighty bastard of an album represents the collation of Earth's two early EPs and comes resplendent with that same sense of chilling, north-western nih... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Reviews
King Cannibal – The Way of the Ninja
A back catalogue 20 years old is fertile ground for someone tasked with assembling a retrospective; given Ninja Tune’s history as an innovator in recor... Read more »| 02 Nov 2010 -
Interviews
The Cathouse: 20 Years of Blood, Sweat and Beers
Celebrating 20 years as the go-to nightspot for the rock-oriented clubber, Glasgow’s Cathouse staff relive five moments from its colourful history Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Interviews
Remember Remember: Day of the Scorpion
Remember Remember's Graeme Ronald tests your Greek mythology and gives an insight into the recording of his cosmic new EP Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Reviews
6 Day Riot – On This Island
6 Day Riot do not sound like the kind of clan that would partake on such a lengthy riotous off-the-chain bender as their moniker suggests. On the con... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Reviews
Yusuf Azak – Turn On the Long Wire
Yusuf Azak is a singer-songwriter without peer, thanks to a voice that proudly earns the epithet ‘acquired taste’. With each encounter, either in... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Reviews
Various – 45 A-Side Records Presents The Glad Cafe
While Glasgow’s hardly starved for venues, those living south of the Clyde are generally underserved. Opening in early 2011, the Glad Cafe aims to rect... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010