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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Live MusicGillian Welch @ Clyde Auditorium, 20 November
With each successive visit to Glasgow, Gillian Welch’s fanbase has increased exponentially; and given the eight-year gap between 2003’s Soul Jour... Read more »| 21 Nov 2011 -
Live MusicDeath Cab For Cutie @ O2 Academy, 19 November
As forms of protest go, three young guys getting their penises out as evidence of their indifference to Death Cab's tour support is unlikely to catch o... Read more »| 21 Nov 2011 -
Live MusicVic Galloway presents... Remember Remember @ Electric Circus, 17 November
Looking resplendent like Oor Wullie on kirk day, Adam Stafford takes stage for the second of Vic Galloway’s hand-picked nights at Electric Circus. Havi... Read more »| 21 Nov 2011 -
ReviewsKate Bush – 50 Words For Snow
Could anyone except Kate Bush create a concept album about snow, incorporating a duet with Elton John, featuring a title track that sees Stephen Fry reciti... Read more »| 21 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
REM – Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011
It's the best REM compilation you'll get, and the perfect farewell to an institution Read more »| 21 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
She & Him – A Very She & Him Christmas
A She & Him Christmas album feels as natural a fit for the yuletide season as tinsel, turkey and strained family relationships. While she already had a h... Read more »| 21 Nov 2011
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Live Music
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks @ The Arches, 11 November
With their impeccably-crafted, Beach Boys-inflected brand of sunkissed indie, London’s Weird Dreams make sense as openers for a Stephen Malkmus set; ch... Read more »| 18 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Arab Strap @ Nice N Sleazy, 17 November
• Possibly the best secret The Skinny has ever kept (even if we did just stick them on the cover anyway), Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton reunited fo... Read more »| 18 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Conquering Animal Sound / Sleepingdog / FareWell Poetry @ CCA, 15 November
An arts centre is surely a fitting stage for the roster of Gizeh Records, as the first date of the label's Silent Bells Tour soon proves. Opening a... Read more »| 17 Nov 2011 -
Live MusicArab Strap discuss the motivation to reform for one-off show
"There's absolutely no commerce involved, it's purely from love," says Aidan Moffat Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
Festivals
Festival Column: The Falls Festival, Tasmania
To me, New Year's Eve is a rubbish night. I almost inevitably find myself switching between the extreme heat of a sweaty party and the extreme cold of Scot... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Los Campesinos! @ Òran Mór, 10 November
With low slung guitars and double denim uniform, Strange News From Another Star resemble a rockabilly-flecked Future of the Left (with whom frontman Jimmy Wa... Read more »| 16 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Smashing Pumpkins / Ringo Deathstarr @ O2 Academy, 13 November
All photography by Alex Woodward Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Arctic Monkeys @ SECC, 8 November
All photography by Euan Robertson Read more »| 14 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Ghostface Killah @ The Liquid Room, 9 November
Eight months after his Cuban Linx co-host claimed The Liquid Room, Ghostface Killah shows up to mirror Raekwon’s inebriated triumph – tonight&rsq... Read more »| 11 Nov 2011