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 Music
The Hedrons - The Swamp @ Edinburgh
Their sound is strong enough but sadly the song writing is distinctively lacking Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Interviews
Quasi
it's easy to imagine Quasi's evocative and dramatic creations speaking to a large number of people Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsBeth Orton - Comfort Of Strangers
perfect music for reflection, reminiscing or just plain drinking Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsBe Your Own Pet - 'Be Your Own Pet'
the younger, sillier answer to New York garage rock Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsSkindred - Pressure
Punk-metal reggae fronted by a Welshman anyone? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Reviews
Orson - No Tomorrow
Easy-listening-by-numbers Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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Reviews
Nizlopi - Girls
Jack Johnson with an English twist Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Reviews
David Ford - I Don't Care What You Call Me
Quiet guitar, mellow organs and fully hum-able melodies in place. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Reviews
Two Gallants - 'What The Toll Tells'
They do not slump into their sophomore album àno, they crash through it, banging and booming, yelling and yearning. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Reviews
Tony Allen - Lagos No Shaking
lamely recontextualising all the pre-cursory afro-beat elements that went on to inform hip-hop and funk Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Reviews
The Chalets - Theme From Chalets
...striking similarities with Paula Abdul's Opposites Attract... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
Sway @ The Liquid Room @ Edinburgh
Sway proves he possesses the showmanship to match his entrepreneurial prowess, emerging to the British national anthem and punctuating his set with an impromptu rendition of Can't Touch This. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb @ Subway Cowgate
Culminates in a human pyramid which repeatedly collapses like a soufflé Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Reviews
The Research - 'Breaking Up'
The Wakefield trio pull it off shamelessly well at times Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Reviews
The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary - 'From Cells of Roughest Air' EP
Godspeed and Set Fire To Flames performing their apocalyptic compositions after walking home along cosmopolitan rue St-Laurent Read more »| 17 Mar 2006