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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ReviewsGet Back Guinozzi! - Carpet Madness
The relationship between the French and the English has not always been smooth, but this debut album by the joyously unhinged Get Back Guinozzi! ... Read more »| 30 Sep 2009 -
Interviews
Yeasayer: Wait for the Winter
Yeasayer have kept us waiting on their second album, but their fans' patience is about to be rewarded. Guitarist Anand Wilder gives The Skinny a progress report Read more »| 30 Sep 2009 -
Interviews
Mudhoney: Here Comes the Fuzz
After a 20 year absence, Seattle scuzz progenitors Mudhoney finally make their return to the capital this month. Read more »| 30 Sep 2009 -
ReviewsEfterklang & The Danish National Chamber Orchestra - Performing Parades
When orchestras and pop (in the loosest sense) collide, the results tend to be either peculiarly misjudged (say, Metallica’s S&M) or pleasant-but-p... Read more »| 30 Sep 2009 -
Reviews
Electric Eel Shock - Sugoi Indeed
Cards on the table: Electric Eel Shock are a technically excellent rock and roll band... but so what? Were this a band of three dumpy, middle-aged guys from ... Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Interviews
St Deluxe: Cutting the Slack
They've been hailed by Alan McGee as a "Scottish Nirvana for the twenty-first century", but don't let that put you off. Glasgow's St Deluxe insist they're a different breed altogether Read more »| 29 Sep 2009
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InterviewsIn The [Big] Pink
The Big Pink have produced one of the most talked about debut albums in ages, but on the day of its release, is the pressure beginning to show? Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Interviews
Citizens: A Spoonful of Hardcore
Glasgow trio Citizens prove that there's much more to hardcore punk than the BPM Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Interviews
2004: A Franztastic year
In honour of The Skinny’s first proper chat with Mr Alex Kapranos and to get the jump on next year’s inevitable Channel 4 ‘nostalgia trip’ I Heart the Noughties, our dedicated team of historians peer through the mists of time and try to decipher what - if any - meaning 2004 A.D. has on our lives today. Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen - October, 2009
Ally Brown is gonna let you finish, but Nick Mitchell wrote some of the greatest Dirty Dozen single review columns of all time! Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - October, 2009
Carpet-bombing Scotland in early October, Cats and Cats and Cats deploy super-inventive post-rock(ets) that explode with punk energy on impact. They aren't a... Read more »| 29 Sep 2009 -
Reviews
Blackhole - Dead Hearts
Dead Hearts sees eleven chunks of thoroughly respectable hardcore lobbed through The MC5's window. This young Londonian quintet set off from the ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2009 -
Reviews
Nephu Huzzband - Elementary
From the off, it's clear that Nephu Huzzband have a distinct set of motivational DIY ideals running through their music and general practice. Punk sensibilit... Read more »| 28 Sep 2009 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – October, 2009
There must be few better ways to celebrate Hallowe'en than listening the the tongue-in-cheek gore metal of Cannibal Corpse Read more »| 28 Sep 2009 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: WHY?
Since Alopecia came out, we've been on tour for maybe half of those months. We've been all over the US twice, all over Europe four times, Japan once and Isra... Read more »| 25 Sep 2009