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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ReviewsTaken By Trees - East of Eden
Victoria Bergsman's second album as Taken By Trees is born of admirable intentions: seeking to break free from her comfort zone, she travelled with a sound e... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
Live MusicFaith No More @ Corn Exchange, 25 Aug
By their own admission, Faith No More are old men in rock ‘n’ roll circles, and a fair portion of tonight’s audience are marching unquestio... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
Live MusicA Year of The Mill @ Òran Mór, 27 Aug
The Mill’s anniversary shindig gets off to a disappointing start when it transpires that illness has spirited away Jill O’Sullivan from Sparrow a... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
ReviewsPastels/Tenniscoats - Two Sunsets
The evocative title of this collaboration between Glasgow’s Pastels and Tokyo’s Tenniscoats neatly summarises its scope, cleanly articulating the... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Rebellious Jukebox - Another Precious Day
Beck tried and failed to recreate the spirit of Odelay when he reunited with the Dust Brothers for 2003’s Guero. Judging by this rollicking effort, M... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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The Hot Melts - The Hot Melts
The Hot Melts recently got nobody hot under the collar with their “ultra-controversial” video for single Red Lips. It features semi-naked, cavort... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009
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Trashcan Sinatras - In The Music
Despite pre-dating contemporaries such as Teenage Fanclub and having more than their fair share of seminal moments tucked away in their unjustly niche back-c... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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The Dirty Dozen - September, 2009
This month a rock star's nephew gets in on the act, a historically named new Scottish band emerges, and Nick Mitchell gets an education from Ian Brown Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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McIntosh Ross - The Great Lakes
Deacon Blue have been relatively quiet since 2001 - a gig here, a best-of there. It's tempting, therefore, to imagine Ricky Ross and co spending their downti... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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Hockey - Mind Chaos
Showing some admirable self-awareness, Oregon's Hockey use the first song on their first album to pre-empt what they know is going to be a recurring criticis... Read more »| 27 Aug 2009 -
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The Hornblower Brothers - Adventures In The National Geographic EP
The Hornblower Brothers are cursed before they’ve even started: they come with the recommendation of patron saint of borecore Steve Lamacq. But as this... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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Illa J - Sounds Like Love
There’s plenty mileage in dearly departed rappers, evidenced amply by the Tupac/BIG commercial vehicles which have rumbled along for the last few years... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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Baddies - Do the Job
Do The Job is either an example of supreme bad luck or an exercise in supremely competent observation. Which is a politer way of saying either Baddies were u... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
Videos
The T Sessions: We Were Promised Jetpacks
Off the Beaten Tracks is a music video project in unusual surroundings. The Skinny and Off the Beaten Tracks have teamed up to bring you music videos from ... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009 -
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We Insist! - The Babel Inside Was Terrible
The French have one hell of a knack for post-hardcore. We Insist! are into their 15th year of being but the oddly entitled The Babel Inside Was Terrible demo... Read more »| 26 Aug 2009