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.
-
Live MusicThe Metal Column – July 2010
In an attempt to cover everything metal in Scotland, we do our best to unearth all the upcoming gigs that take place across the entire country. But it’... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
ReviewsJammer – Jahmanji
Even though grime got glam and captured the ears of everyone from ringtone-buying teens to contemplative middle-class listeners since being commandee... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
ReviewsDanger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
A collaborative album from Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse will raise few eyebrows, given both acts' prior prolificacy as musical magpies – with a pletho... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
Spare Snare – Victor
Aesthetically gorgeous; initial copies of Victor are packaged in a lovely hand screen printed card sleeve by Spare Snare driving machine, Jan Burnett. Champi... Read more »| 28 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
Digitonal – Be Still My Bleeping Heart
London duo Digitonal once played at a base for NASA, which suits that starry glare in their eye down to the ground, or rather off into space. This co... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
Live Music
TrioVD @ Stereo, 23 Jun
Writing about jazz, it's not often you get to deploy words like 'punk', 'pure evil' and 'Christ my ears are bleeding', but tonight's TrioVD gig is an occasio... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010
-
Live MusicPolar Bear @ The Arches, 21 Jun
A passing Duke Ellington fan may not recognise it as such, but in the case for jazz being about embracing creative freedom and pushing at accepted forms, Pol... Read more »| 25 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
It's easy to hear why Janelle Monáe has taken four years since her breakthrough as a guest on OutKast's Idlewild to complete her own debut album: The ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
Daniel Johnston and BEAM – Beam Me Up!!
Daniel Johnston’s most celebrated work was recorded single-handedly on a basic tape recorder, often in one take, using nothing more than a chea... Read more »| 24 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
Larsen B – Musketeer
Arriving on a wave of approval from a sea of taste-makers, Larsen B – named after an Antarctic ice shelf – dream of the stars but wake up in stai... Read more »| 24 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
School of Seven Bells – Disconnect From Desire
School of Seven Bells’ debut LP was a masterclass in pop mysticism. Glazed with complex harmonies and effects-sodden chords – courtesy of Secret ... Read more »| 24 Jun 2010 -
Live Music
Cypress Hill @ O2 Academy, 16 Jun
A week shy of a decade since they last rolled (and blazed) through Glasgow; the Cypress Hill we see tonight is shorn of the rock band experience that made th... Read more »| 23 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
Deer Tick – The Black Dirt Sessions
Like all true country musicians, Deer Tick’s John McCauley shares his name with his father and grandfather, has an unfashionable moustache and sounds a... Read more »| 23 Jun 2010 -
ReviewsA Fight You Can't Win – A Fight You Can't Win
Edinburgh trio A Fight You Can't Win give their material the full-length treatment on this self-titled debut, and the results are highly appetising. The prod... Read more »| 23 Jun 2010 -
Reviews
DM Stith – Heavy Ghost: Appendices
Following emphatic praise for 2009’s Heavy Ghost, DM Stith presents its Appendices – two discs of remixes, demos and covers. Such an extensive do... Read more »| 23 Jun 2010