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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ReviewsOptimo - Sleepwalk
Don't make the mistake of putting Optimo's new mix CD on for a gym visit or before a night out - it'll slow your treadmill to a halt or stunt the momentum of... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsRed Light Company - Scheme Eugene
Red Light Company prepare for their forthcoming tour with the release of this second single. A slab of earthshaking indie-rock, Scheme Eugene boasts twinkly ... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
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Broken Records - Lies
Kurt Cobain once stated that the only two places he would ever live would be Seattle or Edinburgh, a comment that aptly summed up a transatlantic love affair... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
InterviewsJack & Kyle: "The D Will Never Die!"
"It’s important to me that music be glorious. And it’s important to me that whatever we do next be glorious. But will it be a tour? Will it be a movie? Will it be a TV show? Or will it just be me and Kyle talking to you? I don’t know. One thing’s for sure, it shall be glorious." - Jack Black Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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These Arms Are Snakes: Apocalypse? No!
Office jobs? Pension plans? Breaking bands? These Arms Are Snakes crave not these things, as Brian Cook tells Ryan Drever. Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin
Desert dwelling hippies return for another album of perfectly pedestrian goodness Read more »| 29 Oct 2008
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Live MusicGoldfrapp @ The Corn Exchange, 5 Nov
Following her early days singing on Orbital and Tricky records, Alison Goldfrapp hit the big time with 2006’s Supernature, its glammy electro perfectly captu... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
My Vitriol @ Stereo, 19 Nov
High on the “whatever happened to…?” list of the past five years is My Vitriol, now showing up at Stereo in Glasgow. After a highly succe... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Little Joy - Little Joy
Surely nobody was thinking of That's The Story Of My Life and After Hours when The Strokes and The Velvet Underground were being routinely compared back at t... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Pascal Comelade - The No Dancing
One man's whimsical, pedestrian, musical ruminations Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Y’All Is Fantasy Island – No Ceremony
YiFi’s potent mixture of Celtic Americana is sprawled out on the porch, moonshine in hand Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Metal Up Your Ass - November, 2008
Potentially the gigging highlight of the month, and perhaps of the year, comes in the form of the astonishing Israeli trio Monotonix (10 Nov) at The Captain's Rest Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
The Black Keys @ Queen's Hall, 16 Nov
Bringing to a close a year that saw them release a white-hot collaboration with hip-hop hit-maker Danger Mouse, The Black Keys will bring their oil-stained g... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Don Caballero @ Stereo, 12 Nov
Influential Pennsylvanian math-rockers hit Glasgow Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
On this first single from The Stand Ins, companion piece to 2007's critically acclaimed The Stage Names, Okkervil River's Will Sheff takes the role of beleag... Read more »| 28 Oct 2008