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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InterviewsTen Reasons to Love Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth have exerted an influence that will continue to resonate as long as music is being made Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live MusicT-Break Heat 8 @ King Tut's
Some Young Pedro blast forth with a wave of post-hardcore sonic angst Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live MusicT-Break Heat 7 @ King Tut's, 13 May
Everyone in attendance must have got a taste of Injuns' unusual concoction of pop-led jazz funk Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live MusicT-Break Heat 6 @ King Tut's, 12 May
O.B.E. pounce on the unsuspecting crowd Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live Music
T-Break Heat 5 @ King Tut's, 11 May
Endor handle the occasion with aplomb Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Reviews
Black Sun - Sacred Eternal Eclipse
This is surprisingly and strangely mellow screaming death metal from Glasgow based Black Sun. Or maybe it's not quite 'death' metal, maybe just 'serious inju... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Festivals
Shetland Folk Festival
The unofficial climax of the Shetland Folk Festival arrived when least expected. It's early on a Saturday morning at the festival club, and I find my feet al... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
InterviewsEels: Nothing Easy 'bout being E
His vessel for disseminating this rich tapestry of keen-eyed observation and musical majesty is Eels Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Head Automatica
"The jams are blowing my mind!" Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Reviews
Elin Ruth – Elin Ruth
hits these shores with an album more akin to Stockton, Tennessee than Stockholm, Sweden Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Reviews
Amusement Parks On Fire - Out Of The Angeles
Out Of The Angeles' is a Eurodisney of a record Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Interviews
The Replacements - Don't You Know Who They Think they Were?
Even if this collection fails to convince, it will remain a worthy curio Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live Music
The Long Blondes @ Mono, 28 Apr
Perhaps not for the majority Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live Music
Richard Ashcroft @ Carling Academy, 8 May
Worshippers leave with the lyric ""I can't change my mould"" falling from their mouths. Do they wish he hadn't? Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live Music
Mystery Jets @ QMU, 3 May
lures the listener in like the proverbial cheese in a mouse trap Read more »| 15 Jun 2006