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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ReviewsMt. St. Helens Vietnam Band – Where the Messengers Meet
A cavalier attitude to song structure, awkward pop melodies and a lead singer pitching his chords with theatrical verve: take a number, guys – half of ... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
ReviewsWomen – Public Strain
The static storm cover for Public Strain is as good an entrée for its unsettling brilliance as the damaged symphony of first single Eyesore. The obtus... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Interviews
The Burns Unit Present Side Show, Track-by-Track
Side Show – the anticipated debut from eight-piece Scottish-Canadian supergroup The Burns Unit – is bound for release this August. We invited the players involved to introduce it with a track-by-track guide to the writing process Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Reviews
Endor – Endor
If timing’s everything then Endor should have set their watches. While Frightened Rabbit were flaunting their winsome jangling across the globe, their ... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Interviews
Wu-Tang Clan: Like Voltron
As Wu-Tang Clan get ready to swarm on Glasgow, Raekwon mentally prepares us for the hip-hop gig of the summer Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
ReviewsBoris & Ian Astbury – BXI EP
Having lent his bellowing pipes to everybody from UNKLE to Slash since ending his tenure at the helm of The Doors and reconvening The Cult in recent years, I... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010
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Reviews!!! – Strange Weather, Isn't It?
In which DancePunk ™ seems to have metamorphosed into disco funk as curated by George Clinton and Chic. !!!’s first album since 2007’s broo... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Reviews
Aberfeldy – Somewhere To Jump From
Not that we want to encourage Aberfeldy’s pathos, but being dropped by Rough Trade, losing several band members and potentially being remembered for so... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Reviews
Yu(c)k – Weakened EP
Coveting their underground credentials, emerging noise-pop 90s revivalists, Yuck, have opted not only to release their Weakened EP under alter-ego Yu(c)k, bu... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Reviews
RPA & The United Nations of Sound – United Nations of Sound
Having walked in the shadow of his self-assumed messianic status since the release of The Verve’s critical and commercial haymaker, Urban Hymns, Richar... Read more »| 26 Jul 2010 -
Reviews
Michael Morph – Something For The Weakened
Michael Morph’s natural groove appears to be fidget house, but Something For The Weakened is packed with plenty of gear changes to please more catholic... Read more »| 21 Jul 2010 -
Live Music
T in the Park 2010 – Saturday
The man responsible for placing Hacienda on the international scene as a home of forward-thinking music opens the Saturday of the Slam Tent in suitable style... Read more »| 20 Jul 2010 -
ReviewsRichard Youngs – Beyond The Valley of Ultrahits
With this bafflingly titled 'pop' LP, Richard Youngs makes efforts towards a folk/electronica hybrid as much akin to Richard Thompson as to Four Tet, but lan... Read more »| 20 Jul 2010 -
Live Music
Klaxons @ King Tut's, 13 Jul
Yes, there are glowsticks (well, two) and crowd-surfing is permitted (for a while at least) but primarily the Klaxons (opening with the hypnotically manic Fl... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010 -
Live Music
Tunng @ Stereo, 22 July
Originally a studio collaboration between London-based songwriters Mike Lindsay and Sam Genders – who has since relinquished his creative duties &ndash... Read more »| 19 Jul 2010