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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ReviewsNoel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Noel Gallagher spoke recently of the follow up to his first solo album, promising an experimental collaboration with FSOL's psychedelic arm, Amorphous Androg... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
Live MusicTindersticks @ Usher Hall, 16 October
French film director Claire Denis formed a creative connection with Tindersticks in 1995. Tonight, the textures of her works (including 35 Rhums, Vendredi So... Read more »| 19 Oct 2011 -
ReviewsJustice – Audio, Video, Disco
The four years taken to produce a follow-up to 2007’s † inevitably raises suspicions that Justice have been experiencing Difficult Sec... Read more »| 18 Oct 2011 -
ReviewsDamu – Unity
Unity is one of the more counter-intuitive off-shoots of UK bass music's amorphous, lexically-challenged evolution. Almost completely cleaved... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
aCivilian – Invention
Given that Phil Critten’s persona seemingly hovers somewhere between Mother Theresa and a Norfolkian Jack Kerouac, it’s little wonder that his ... Read more »| 17 Oct 2011 -
News
Warp Films, ATP festival and Vincent Moon want your money
On Burning, director Vincent Moon worked with Mogwai; on A Skin, A Night, he worked with The National; for La Blogothèque’s Take-Away Shows, he ... Read more »| 13 Oct 2011
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Interviews
A Little Night Music: Tindersticks and Claire Denis
Tindersticks’ performance of their soundtracks for French filmmaker Claire Denis at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, along with footage from the accompanying films, will be an atmospheric blend of cinema and music as live performance. Read more »| 12 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Gruff Rhys @ Bongo Club, 8 October
The latent tension of a heavily oversubscribed Bongo Club and a few early technical "malfunctions" fail to deter Gruff Rhys from his stated mission; that of ... Read more »| 12 Oct 2011 -
Interviews
Kid Koala: "I'm not a dancefloor type of guy!"
Kid Koala has never been just your average turntablist. With his new graphic novel and album, he wants to take you beyond the dancefloor, to the stars… Read more »| 12 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
True Widow / Vom / The Downs @ Captain's Rest, 10 October
Both of tonight’s support acts bear superficial similarities with their headliner – being guitar/bass/drums trios that rely heavily (excuse the p... Read more »| 12 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Detour presents... Meursault / Happy Particles @ Glasgow Science Centre, 9 October
The planetarium isn't just a novel location for the sake of gimmickry, since a certain brand of rock music routinely provokes descriptions like "star-gazing"... Read more »| 12 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Gold Panda @ King Tut's, 8 October
It’s not just the red paper lantern hanging from his lighting rig that hints at Gold Panda's interest in all things far eastern, but the series of t... Read more »| 11 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Detour presents... Remember Remember / Miaoux Miaoux @ Glasgow Science Centre, 8 October
For the past couple of years, the selfless folk at Detour Scotland have been doing everything in their power to make Scottish music fresh, intriguing and som... Read more »| 11 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
Pettybone – From Desperate Times Comes Radical Minds
The all-female punk combo is hardly an untried concept but what Pettybone bring to the table is a sense of righteous conviction that the likes of The Donna... Read more »| 11 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Snoop Dogg @ O2 Academy, 9 October
The Doggfather has long been the smooth, acceptable and debonair face of hip-hop and – for better or worse – his performance tonight reflects it.... Read more »| 11 Oct 2011