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 MusicManic Street Preachers at Barrowlands, 25 May
Another dreich night in Glasgow fails to dampen the spirits outside the Barrowlands as the hordes bay for the live premiere of Journal for Plague Lovers. Pla... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
ReviewsJack Peñate - Everything is New
When Jack Peñate spasmodically sidestepped on to the scene like an epileptic crab in 2006, detractors quickly lumped him in with the jangly Mockneys d... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Live MusicUnicorn Kid @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Jun
Not many 17-year-olds from Edinburgh can say they’ve collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys...or played a live session on BBC Radio 1...or featured in NME... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Reviews
Lord Cut-Glass - Lord Cut-Glass
No one could accuse Alun Woodward of rushing things. Lord Cut-Glass is the alias under which the former Delgado has slowly been unveiling his solo material s... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Reviews
Cass McCombs - Catacombs
US singer-songwriter Cass McCombs returns with his second album for Domino, Catacombs, a musically melancholic but lyrically sharp record. McCombs is a drift... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
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Adam Franklin - Spent Bullets
Too strong for shy shoegazers, Adam Franklin’s old band, Swervedriver, were often lumped in with labelmates Ride or My Bloody Valentine, but in reality... Read more »| 28 May 2009
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Reviews
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors' last album, Rise Above, was an attempt by New Yorker Dave Longstreth to recreate Black Flag's Damaged despite not having heard it for 15 ye... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
ReviewsFuture of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another
New musical maxim: “In the land of the three-piece, tone is King”. To support this bold new truth, Future of the Left squeeze every drop of juice... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - June, 2009
You'd have to take a lethal dose of sleeping pills to block out the noise that The Drones are making at the moment Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
Live Music
The Metal Section - June, 2009
As seasons go, summer really isn't the most conducive to sullen misery and angry, clenched-fist misanthropy. It must be hard to stay mad at one's parents whi... Read more »| 28 May 2009 -
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Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers - Hang the Noose
Woodenbox's second single, Hang the Noose, is a country tinged tale of death and remorse, and is released on the King Tuts label. Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Festivals
Stag & Dagger (Glasgow), 23 May
After a successful inaugural run-through in London’s East End in 2008, Stag and Dagger – a one-ticket, multi-venue music festival – decided... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Reviews
Spare Snare - I Love You, I Hate You
"I don't care what you thinks." Hissing electronics snatched from early Grandaddy records and distorted with the scuzz of the Probe Plus back catalogue: this... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
ReviewsWillem Maker - New Moon Hand
Given his sinister backstory, there were few career paths, other than that of the gruff, contemplative blues singer, which were realistically available to Wi... Read more »| 27 May 2009 -
Live Music
Aqualung @ Reid Concert Hall, 22 Jun
Somewhere in the darkest depths of your mind, there may lurk the faint memory of Strange and Beautiful, Aqualung's dreamy piano-led lament that in 2002 was v... Read more »| 27 May 2009