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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ReviewsBeverley Knight - Voice
A great album for squawking along to while you're stuck in traffic, taking a bath or getting ready for a girlie night out Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Interviews
Akron/Family
Every time I try to tell him about the awesomeness of Akron/Family ... he answers with a tired "What? Sorry, the line's pretty bad." Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Festivals
Triptych 06 Overview
The festival does much to restore faith in music as an enjoyable art form and not an over-marketed commodity. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
InterviewsIn Profile: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Enigmatic claimant to the alt-country music throne Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
ReviewsYoung People - 'All At Once' [Too Pure]
a room with muddy guitars and Katie Eastburn's brownbottle croon Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsSoledad Brothers - 'The Hardest Walk'
Songs about a relationship break-up? Well this is the blues... Read more »| 17 Mar 2006
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Live Music
St Jude's Infirmary - Cabaret Voltaire @ Edinburgh
It's not often you leave a gig pondering the ancestral connection between Robbie and John Coltrane. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
Sick Of It All and The Unseen - King Tut's @ Glasgow
live, they haven't tarnished in the slightest after two decades Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
Haftor Medboe Group - The Lot @ Edinburgh
A perfect balance between sound exploration and rocking out. Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
FAST feat. Park Attack / Ride This Train @ The Bongo Club
where else can you dance to Mudhoney? Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsSecret Machines - 'Ten Silver Drops'
a superb collection Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsMitchy Slick - 'Mitchy Duz It'
probably works better in South Central than southern Scotland Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
ReviewsSean Paul - Temperature
Sean sounds as if he's impersonating himself being played at the wrong speed Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
Union of Knives plus support, Cabaret Voltaire Edinburgh Feb 15
slightly more style than substance Read more »| 17 Mar 2006 -
Live Music
Amplifico - Cabaret Voltaire @ Edinburgh
Even the more skeptical back rows seemed to be drawn in by Donna Maciocia's vocals and those that got too close were pushed back on the floor with the punch of a dirty bass line Read more »| 17 Mar 2006