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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ReviewsThe Orchids – The Lost Star
Veterans of the Glasgow scene, The Orchids cut their teeth twenty years ago with cult Bristol based Sarah Records, lending the kind of jangly indie credentia... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
PlaylistsYeasayer's Chris Keating presents The Crooked Beat
Chris Keating picks out a few choice slabs of wax that helped shape Yeasayer as they are today Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
Live MusicGrass Widow / Trash Kit @ 13th Note, 7 Oct
Since the last time Trash Kit came to Scotland, they've gained a good amount of positive press recognition, released their debut album on the esteemed label ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
Live Music
Mudhoney @ The Arches, 9 Oct
I’m not saying girls don’t like Mudhoney (***) – that would be a ridiculous and sexist generalisation. But judging by tonight, it’s f... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
Live Music
Eastern Promise @ Platform, 1 Oct
Wounded Knee and his age of austerity orchestra as he calls it, or rather nifty vocal loop pedal as I do, is a hypnotising act. Making no effort to reassure ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
News
Win a place on the Hogmanay stage!
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay have just launched a new scheme, inviting up and coming bands to do battle for a coveted spot upon the stage of the capital’... Read more »| 07 Oct 2010
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Reviews
Katzenjammer – Le Pop
Who are Katzenjammer? It’s a tougher question than you’d think: they’ve a German name, a French album title, a Balkan whirl of a lead singl... Read more »| 05 Oct 2010 -
Live MusicThe Fruit Tree Foundation presents Music Like A Vitamin @ HMV Picture House, 1 Oct
Idlewild’s Rod Jones and former Delgado Emma Pollock have been ploughing the admirable Music Like A Vitamin furrow for a few years now, gathering toget... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Detachments - Detachments
Anyone who watched the BBC's recent documentary Synth Britannia will know that around the early 1980s a group of unlikely heroes pioneered a minimalist, synt... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Father Murphy – No Room For The Weak EP
Italian trio Father Murphy follow their …And He Turned To The Sun album with three new songs and a cover of Leonard Cohen’s There Is A War. If y... Read more »| 04 Oct 2010 -
Live Music
The Metal Column - October 2010
The remainder of the year is about to serve up an uncivil barrage of ear-baiting terror, as if to coincide with the impending winter darkness. But rather tha... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
John Legend & The Roots – Wake Up!
Few musicians seem to make overtly political records these days: the Iraq war moved few songwriters to sing out, and despite its catastrophic effects, there&... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
Live Music
Grinderman @ Barrowlands, 28 Sep
Grinderman have described their causa causans as an “excuse to make a fucking racket”; turns out that this is something they’re particularl... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
Live Music
Manic Street Preachers @ O2 Academy, 29 Sep
A boa wrapped around a mic stand, a white Gibson being tuned by a roadie, and an empty space to the left of the stage: the Manics don’t have to be perf... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Broken Records – Let Me Come Home
With its own sense of self-importance, Broken Records debut album reached for the heavens but ended up leaving some listeners firmly grounded. At times secon... Read more »| 01 Oct 2010