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 Twilight Sad - Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did
Creditably, nothing seems overdone or self-gratifying; it's a welcome bonus for the many that enjoyed their debut Read more »| 09 Jun 2008 -
Live MusicPublic Enemy @ ABC, 27 May
Still funky, still hilarious, still partying for your right to fight -- where would hip-hop be without them? Read more »| 09 Jun 2008 -
Reviews
Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones
As raw as the album's three-and-a-half day gestation period suggests Read more »| 09 Jun 2008 -
Reviews9th Wonder And Buckshot - The Formula
9th Wonder, previously 1/3rd of the underground hip hop outfit Little Brother and part of the legendary Boot Camp Clik, hooks up with Duck Down Records head ... Read more »| 09 Jun 2008 -
ReviewsRaf And O - Has The Air Gone Walking? EP
Stuttering drums, fluid basslines and Raf’s angelic purr mark this as dreamy but never dull, showing Raf And O as a talent to watch out for Read more »| 09 Jun 2008 -
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The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
The Notwist return from six years in the wilderness with a master class in consistency Read more »| 06 Jun 2008
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Live MusicTo the Undiscovered Ends...
These days conventional Rock 'n' Roll is a dead entity rife with clones, claims The Skinny's Ali Maloney. So here he guides Scottish gig goers through a virtually unchartered galaxy of alternative listening for the month of June Read more »| 06 Jun 2008 -
Interviews
Atmosphere: Feeling Minnesota
These reigning underground hip-hop heavyweights are set to return with their sixth album and a gig in Edinburgh to show it off with this month. Before they spend the rest of the year in foreign lands, their chief rhyme architect tells Dave Kerr why home is still very much where Atmosphere's heart is Read more »| 05 Jun 2008 -
Live Music
Johnny Foreigner @ Cabaret Voltaire, 2 Jun
You can only get so creative when you're rearranging fridge magnets into poetry Read more »| 05 Jun 2008 -
Live Music
Radiohead @ Glasgow Green, 27 Jun
"A lily livered excuse for a rock band"? Read more »| 05 Jun 2008 -
Reviews
Funkerman - Speed Up
When it comes to cheesy dance artist names, mainland Europe is certainly a top exporter Read more »| 05 Jun 2008 -
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Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms2
While no one can deny the power of the originals, these remixes don’t provide anything new or unusual Read more »| 05 Jun 2008 -
Interviews
Back to The Futureheads
Being dropped by your record label would be enough to break up most bands. Not The Futureheads, who explain to Nick Mitchell why they have chosen to do without the men-in-suits altogether Read more »| 04 Jun 2008 -
Interviews
Twenty Five Sixty Two - Dubstep Soul
Steve Glencross examines the faces of dubstep and talks intricate fusion with Dutch maestro 2562 Read more »| 04 Jun 2008 -
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Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition
A densely-layered snap-shot of a band obliviously tearing rock music a new one Read more »| 04 Jun 2008