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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Reviews
Friday Night Gunfight - I Am The Explosion EP
Maybe one day, if they're really (un?)lucky, they might even achieve the hallowed status of Kerrang! darlings. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Festivals
My Festival's Better Than Yours: Loch Lomond
Guitars and decks reunite as the rock DJ heads for the Bonnie Banks... Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Live Music
The Drum and Bass Curriculum Highlights
It's safe to say that the Scottish scene is thriving Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Reviews12 Stone Toddler - Does it Scare You?
These pranksters have surely juggled skulls in dingy Brighton basement voodoo rituals to write songs this damn catchy. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Reviews
Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
Wouldn't sound out of place in some idealised 1950s American high-school dance. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
ReviewsManic Street Preachers - Autumnsong
Immediate and stripped of any past pomposity... Read more »| 10 Jul 2007
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Reviews
Parka - If You Wanna
The record wears its idols on its sleeve, with the mod-tastic name of the band lettered in the ransom-note cut-up style made famous by the snotty three-chord thrashers of years gone by. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
ReviewsThe Coral - Who's Gonna Find Me
Psychedelic guitars swirl and screech while lavish vocal harmonies recall àoddly enough à70s super-groups like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Reviews
The Wombats - Kill the Director
This second single from the Liverpudlian pretenders is a tiresome noise Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Live Music
Roskilde
Read on and believe. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Festivals
My Festival's Better Than Yours: Latitude
The realisation that there might just be leverage in staging intimate and relaxed events in surroundings that don't resemble a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah is worthy of a few Hosannas.
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Interviews
Biffy Clyro - Next? The World!
We don't walk about in kilts or anything, but we love where we're from... - Ben Johnston Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Live Music
The Primary 5 @ Cabaret Voltaire
It might be 2007 but with the sound of The Primary 5 and The Fast Camels, tonight feels like a return to the swinging sixties. Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Festivals
Leith Festival Sessions: St Judes Infirmary @ LE3 @ Ocean Terminal
The most enduring themes are of innovation and eclecticism... Read more »| 10 Jul 2007 -
Reviews
Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula
the Pumpkins are back and they're ready to kick everyone's ass all over again Read more »| 10 Jul 2007