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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Live MusicThat Fucking Tank @ 13th Note, 24 April
The proto-industrial clamour of Rollor has plenty of strengths, like a drum machine that’ll make the fillings in your teeth rattle, and Matt Harris&rsq... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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Austra – Feel It Break
With a tense phantom-like clasp, Katie Stelmanis’ icy vocals disarm the listener, seeping under one’s skin like anaesthetic. Her operatic procliv... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
ReviewsJames Pants - James Pants
James Pants' latest album was recorded in his parents' basement— his parents being two Presbyterian ministers— a fact which is both at home and a... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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Cymbals – Unlearn
Cymbals are a strange proposition; their debut is at first listen a disjointed, punk-funk jamming session; sprawling, incoherent and angular. To be crude &nd... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
Live MusicHappy Birthday Cry Parrot!
John Keys tips his hat to the selfless work of DIY Glasgow promoters Cry Parrot, celebrating their fourth birthday this month Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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Hot Ticket of the Month: Stag and Dagger
Over the last two years, Stag and Dagger’s Glasgow leg has honed the multi-venue urban festival format into a slick, well-oiled machine. 2011’s e... Read more »| 02 May 2011
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Miles Kane – Colour of the Trap
Liverpool lad Miles Kane doesn’t just know how to make friends and influence people –he knows how to get them to appear on his record and all. Th... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
ReviewsVarious Artists – OIB Split Series Volume 4
Calories open this split with its most immediately accessible offering, three minutes of rousing rock with hooks-aplenty, an aesthetic continued by Tubelord&... Read more »| 02 May 2011 -
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This Will Destroy You – Tunnel Blanket
Technological innovation continues, inexorably, to undermine the magic of musical discovery. Since we learned that time-stretching can render even Justin Bie... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011 -
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Live Music Highlights – May 2011
With his unflappable baritone and rambling lyrical flow, Bill Callahan (formerly Smog) is an enigmatic balladeer very much in the Lee Hazlewood/Leonard Cohen... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011 -
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The Metal Column – May 2011
The transition from spring to summer has got to be the worst time of year for metalheads. Autumn is when life begins its annual descent into decay, cruelly f... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011 -
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Steve Adey – These Resurrections EP
With only the scarcest of offerings since his 2006 debut album All Things Real, 2011 looks to be a positively prolific year for Edinburgh-based Steve Adey, a... Read more »| 29 Apr 2011 -
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Across Tundras – Sage
It's no secret that Neurot is a label that loves to reward hard work and Across Tundras definitely meet the specs, now releasing their fifth studio album (no... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011 -
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Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter @ Captain's Rest, 19 April
While it may have taken 2007’s Like, Love, Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul (not to mention the Southern Lord signing which went hand in hand with t... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011 -
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Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
An avant-jazz concept album performed live, Coin Coin is an uncompromising listen. The intense noodling of opener Rise immediately intimidates, while the sub... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011