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 MusicLive Music Highlights – August 2011
Get your motherfucking chakras aligned Edinburgh, because polysynth polymath Dan Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) is getting ready to remix your conscious... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Live MusicThe Metal Column – August 2011
In case you’ve been off dwelling with Norwegian cave metaller Mortiis, last month saw the timely demise of News of the World and it’ll be sadly m... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
ReviewsThe Icarus Line – Wildlife
A solo album in all but name (its working title was Joe Cardamone Versus The Icarus Line), Wildlife is a sporadically impressive outing that nevertheless fal... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
ReviewsRetox – Ugly Animals
Somewhat predictably for a band containing two members of The Locust, Ipecac's latest progeny specialise in envelope-pushing musical lunacy of the 100mph ext... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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Grumbling Fur – Furrier
Even without knowing the illustrious pedigree behind Grumbling Fur, from Furfather’s gently shimmering ambience it’s already possible to see Guap... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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Metaltech – Burn Your Planet
How do you take a band like Metaltech, a nu-industrial trio with a love of Kiss-esque greasepaint and early 90s rock and techno? On one hand you have the alb... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011
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Paul Vickers and the Vicarage – Oom-pah!
There are some releases that even the most determined of pedants couldn’t pigeonhole and with Oom-pah’s trauma-inducing collision of avant-garde ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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The Count & Sinden – Mega Mega Remix
Mega Mega Remix strikes as a particularly masochistic record for The Count & Sinden (or their label?) to commission: though a patchy affair, Mega Mega Re... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
ReviewsWooden Shjips – West
Gone is the lo-fi fugue of Wooden Shjips’ DIY recordings: West marks the San Franciscan psych-rock disciples’ debut in a “proper studio&rdq... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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The Book of Knots – Garden of Fainting Stars
It must be tough being in The Book of Knots. Between them, they’ve worked with everyone from Sparklehorse to Swans and this third album sees the invita... Read more »| 27 Jul 2011 -
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Sole and The Skyrider Band – Hello Cruel World
In a genre filled with self-styled renegades and outsiders, Tim Holland – AKA Sole – is legitimately, ahem, ‘independent as fuck’. Th... Read more »| 27 Jul 2011 -
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The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
When Kurt Vile left The War on Drugs to do his own (absolutely spiffing) thing, he appointed fellow War founder Adam Granduciel a Violator, took him on tour,... Read more »| 26 Jul 2011 -
Live Music
Tom Tom Club @ O2ABC2, 20 July
The ABC’s smaller room represents an underwhelming venue for a visit from New York legends Tom Tom Club, but their irrepressible enthusiasm – all... Read more »| 26 Jul 2011 -
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Dam Mantle – WE EP
We can only speculate that Dam Mantle has yet to sleep this year, what with fitting in a US tour and album release, finishing an art degree in Glasgow and no... Read more »| 25 Jul 2011 -
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Warm Brains – Old Volcanoes
For a man who once went by the name Raaary Decihells (whilst one third of Test Icicles), Rory Attwell’s debut as Warm Brains is surprisingly grown-up. ... Read more »| 25 Jul 2011