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 xx – xx
If ‘spectral pop’ is to be the tag that follows London quartet The xx and their debut album, then they can probably rest easy as it’s not e... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
InterviewsSexy Beasts
With a new record packed with carnal energy to promote, Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe wants to celebrate Britain's sensuous side, he tells Duncan Forgan. Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
Opinion
In the Studio: Nine Black Alps
It's the last day on our stay at Beethoven Street studios in London. We've spent four days here and ten days in a remote farm studio in North Wales recording... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players - Folk Songs
A deliberate reaction to recent folk-mutations, Folk Songs sees James Yorkston take time out from his work with The Athletes to record eleven traditional tra... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
Festivals
Wickerman 2009
Strangely, but thankfully, the Wickerman Festival near Dumfries is a Friday-Saturday weekender, not a Saturday-Sunday affair. That's fortunate because when T... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsSir Vincent Lone - Troubadour Heart
Jackie Leven kills off his musical pseudonym Sir Vincent Lone and consequently produces a ‘posthumous’ album that’s actually better than th... Read more »| 30 Jul 2009
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Live Music
The Metal Column – August, 2009
OK, so this is just a metal column, but these are complicated times. Boundaries are blurred. Man or woman (Lady Gaga)? Straight or gay (Sufjan Stevens)? Blac... Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsYim Yames - A Tribute To George Harrison
It may appeal most to devoted My Morning Jacket fans, but this six song requiem for George Harrison deserves a wider audience. Recorded solo and acousticall... Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
Kasms - Absent Without Leave/Murmur
London Quartet get dark with impressive double A-side. Read more »| 29 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
Pastels/Tenniscoats – Vivid Youth / About You
The pairing of Glasgow indie darlings The Pastels with Japanese avant-gardists Tenniscoats might seem like an oddly exotic match-up. But in actual fact Steph... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - August, 2009
Art rock weirdos Victorian English Gentlemen's Club impressed the pants off us with their punchy, unpredictable 2006 debut but they never really got the atte... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsLovvers - OCD Go Go Go Girls
The plot of Dan Brown’s forthcoming crime-against-literature/bestseller is top secret, but I reckon I’ve figured out the subject of investigation... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: The Twilight Sad
Since the first record, some of the things we've been doing are: playing gajillions of gigs round UK, Europe, America and Canada, drinking too much, not slee... Read more »| 28 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
Mariachi El Bronx - Cell Mates
Unless The Jonas Brothers are anonymously working on a double album of folk-inspired death metal, this is undoubtedly the most unusual musical alter-ego of 2... Read more »| 27 Jul 2009 -
Interviews
The Foundling Wheel: Spinning the Wheel of Fortune
Sonically nihilistic, The Foundling Wheel is Edinburgh’s premier one-man octave cranker. But, during a chat with the amiable Ted Koterwas, Billy Hamilton discovers appearances can be a lot more than just deceptive Read more »| 27 Jul 2009