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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ReviewsKanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
“Have you lost your mind?" asks Yeezy on Hell Of A Life. "Tell me when you think we’ve crossed the line...” And so Twitter's most dangerous... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
ReviewsConsole – Herself
Somewhere on India’s Goa beach there is a man playing the first tune on this record, nodding his dreadlocked head, and feeling at one with the world; f... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
ReviewsVarious Artists – I'm Here Soundtrack
Spike Jonze’s latest short film I’m Here has brought with it this collection of old and new indie-cool material to soundtrack his urban robotic l... Read more »| 26 Nov 2010 -
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Kylie Minoise – Sid Vicious Occult School of Motoring
Where would the world be without acts like Kylie Minoise endeavouring to take the most innocuous of sounds and turn them into sonic weaponry? Undoubtedly in ... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
ReviewsThe Savings and Loan – Today I Need Light
The Savings and Loan aren’t looking for an It’s-a-Wonderful-Life, community-spirit bail-out on their debut – just a stiff drink. As a guest... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
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Frank Turner – Rock & Roll EP
Evolving from bitter, acoustic punk – from tracks Thatcher Fucked the Kids and Once We Were Anarchists to the mellowness of the former Million Dead fro... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010
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Sophie's Pigeons – Names and Pictures
A curse on you, Urban Dictionary. we could have happily lived our lives believing the only definition of ‘trunkle’ was ‘tree monster foe of... Read more »| 25 Nov 2010 -
Interviews
Johnny, not Jenny
Scottish-American folk troubador Johnathan Rice has teamed up with his girlfriend (Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis). They're called Jenny and Johnny (very cute) and this, in Johnny's words, is their story Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
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Bruce Springsteen – The Promise
As Sick Boy observed to Renton one myth-making afternoon in an Edinburgh park: “Well, at one time, you’ve got it, and then you lose it,” an... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
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Rose Kemp – Golden Shroud
It’s fair to say Rose Kemp is carving a distinctive niche for herself. The daughter of Steeleye Span members Rick Kemp and Maddy Prior, her vocal style... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
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Julia Stone – The Memory Machine
Successful brother-sister bands are rare – apart from The Knife and sibship supergroup The Magic Numbers, it seems the creepiness of singing about love... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
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Cold In Berlin – Give Me Walls
This London-based four piece specialise in a kind of pummelling, apocalyptic goth-garage, and sound like they’d be a lot of fun live. Their debut never... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Live Music
Fear Factory @ QMU, 16 Dec
Pop had John and Paul; folk had Simon and Garfunkel; and industrial metal had Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares. Rightly or wrongly, if you were a Kerrang!-rea... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
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Various Artists – Electropapknit Volume 1
In the first of what will hopefully be a lengthy run, Glasgow-based DIY promoters Electropapknit deliver a stock-take of the Scottish underground, a perfect ... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010 -
Live MusicThe Phantom Band @ Òran Mór, 21 Nov
It was a no-brainer really. With nary a bad song in their repertoire and playing the superb Òran Mór to an eager, almost ecstatic, homecoming c... Read more »| 24 Nov 2010