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 MusicThee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra @ Glasgow School of Art, 19 March
With his left hand flowing over the fretboard while the right rattles his acoustic's wooden body and glances over strings, RM Hubbert is one hell of a guitar... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
ReviewsWe Were Promised Jetpacks - The Last Place You'll Look EP
The Last Place You'll Look reprises two standout tracks from We Were Promised Jetpacks' underrated debut LP These Four Walls – Short Bursts and This Is... Read more »| 24 Mar 2010 -
PlaylistsSuper Adventure Club's Avoid Zombies: Track-by-Track, By the Band
Hip Hop Hot Pot Pot Noodle Tales, circumstances and quips from three people living on Bread Street in Edinburgh for three months in a tiny two bedroom flat &... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Various Artists - Shank OST
The producers of the dystopian Brit-flick Shank obviously buy into the argument of grime as a handy expression of urban decay, as its official soundtrack bra... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers - Home and the Wildhunt
It seems lazy to automatically align any act with prominent brass and a Celtic swing with Dexy’s Midnight Runners, but sometimes knee-jerk comp... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
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Jónsi - Go
It's difficult to distinguish Jónsi's debut solo album from anything he could possibly have produced in conjunction with his Sigur Rós bandmate... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010
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Reviews
Victoria & Jacob – With No Certainty
Do you like Ellie Goulding and Owl City? Me neither, but enough do to make them two of 2010’s breakthrough acts. Those same people will likely ... Read more »| 23 Mar 2010 -
Live MusicRufus Wainwright @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 15 April
This time last year, a production called Sonette by avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson and the Berliner Ensemble was premiered, based on twenty four of... Read more »| 22 Mar 2010 -
ReviewsBenni Hemm Hemm - Retaliate
Having stitched himself into Scotland’s alt-folk fabric (working with Withered Hand, Eagleowl and Alasdair Roberts amongst others), Retaliate is an ina... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
To Rococo Rot - Forwardness Fridays EP
The EP is an awkward conception, defined by what it's not: too long to be a single, too short to be an album. Even within this limited bracket, thoug... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
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Burnt Island - Music and Maths EP
To Music and Maths, add a double period of English, for Burnt Island’s debut is a decidedly literary affair. Led by author Rodge Glass and partly inspi... Read more »| 19 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Keeping up with Jónsi
The voice of Sigur Rós talks to The Skinny about his solo album, baby booms and tiny wardrobes Read more »| 18 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Black Francis - Nonstoperotik
Having reverted to his Pixies-era moniker of Black Francis in 2007 – in a move that fooled precisely no one – Nonstoperotik finds flaccid... Read more »| 18 Mar 2010 -
Live Music
Autechre @ Sub Club, 16 March
Sean Booth and Rob Brown aren’t ones to bask in limelight. As they are frequently wont to do, tonight they perform in darkness, turning the Sub Club in... Read more »| 18 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This
New album from unnervingly pretty Brighton duo, Blood Red Shoes. Read more »| 17 Mar 2010