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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InterviewsLife Thru a Jens
Swedish crooner Jens Lekman briefly hung up his guitar when scurrilous stories about him became too much to take. Luckily for us he didn't retire for long, but as he tells Ally Brown, if you're trying to find out the truth about him, you may as well just make something up Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Reviews
Various Artists - Godskitchen Underground
From the opening shimmering synths of Robert M’s Only You, this compilation of trance-inflected dirty electro will immediately transport any house fan ... Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
FestivalsThe Skinny @ Coachella 2008
A festival in the Californian sun starring Prince, Portishead and 'Dark Side of the Moon' in full, you say? Ally Brown takes one for the team at Coachella 2008... Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Reviews
Plantlife - Love Toy
Given his penchant for naughty electrofunk pop it is perhaps unsurprisingly main man Jack Splash has recently been on production duties for other naughty electrofunk pop-types Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
ReviewsV/A - Sub Club 20 Years Underground
As the club moves into a new era, this double CD looks back at the last twenty years Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Reviews
Beat Six - When the Chemicals Ignite
Passion reigned in by style Read more »| 12 May 2008
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Reviews
Born Ruffians - I Need A Life
Whether or not this is salvageable is up for debate Read more »| 12 May 2008 -
Reviews
Atomic Hooligan - Sex Drugs And Blah Blah Blah
It’s a relentless rollercoaster of stonking basslines, irresistible beats and distorted loud noises, from album opener and future anthem Dirty, to the hands-in-the-air rush of final track Too Late To Be Afraid Read more »| 10 May 2008 -
Reviews
Near the Parenthesis - Of Soft Construction
The perfect post-modern dinner party soundtrack Read more »| 10 May 2008 -
Live Music
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ Carling Academy, 4 May
True to form, The Seeds leave us as a sweaty mass Read more »| 09 May 2008 -
Playlists
I Hear a New World (May, 2008)
Inspired by the cosmic concept album of the same name by pioneering producer Joe Meek, this brand new monthly column will highlight a selection of unique and essential tracks by groundbreaking artists from Scotland and further afield, all of which can be heard on the accompanying podcast. Read more »| 09 May 2008 -
Live Music
Sebadoh @ The Classic Grand, 25 Apr
Gaffney’s opening gambit is slurring, lost, terminally tragic, and deflating Read more »| 09 May 2008 -
Opinion
Tennent's Mutual: Redressing the Balance?
Well over a decade ago, the folks at Tennent's decided to push their brand through a series of live music offerings designed to enhance the community spirit and shift a few extra cans of lager along the way. More power to 'em Read more »| 08 May 2008 -
Interviews
Kurt Cobain favourites The Vaselines to reform for Tigerfest
The Vaselines, cited by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain as one of his biggest influences, are set to get back together again as part of Tigerfest. They play Dunfermline's Carnegie Hall on May 16th on the same bill as Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and the Pearlfishers' David Scott. (Coincidentally, Cobain named Teenage Fanclub as the best band in the world.) Read more »| 07 May 2008 -
Interviews
No Age: Straight Outta Skid Row
From Black Flag to NWA, innovative – and sometimes revolutionary - bands have been seeping out from the pores of the Los Angeles underground for decades. Dave Kerr comes to face to face with a new breed, in the library no less Read more »| 07 May 2008