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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ReviewsMarcel Dettmann – Conducted
Invoking the spirit of Europe's favourite techno fortress for the second time since his inaugural Berghain 02 mix, Marcel Dettmann's Conducted offering is an... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
ReviewsSeafieldroad – Seafieldroad
Released almost exactly a year after his debut as Seafieldroad (itself released a mere six months after Swimmer One’s Dead Orchestras), Andrew Eaton-Le... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
OpinionHero Worship: Thurston Moore
Idlewild's Rod Jones tips his hat to the man who inspired him to pick up a guitar in the first place Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
ReviewsKing's Daughters & Sons – If Then Not When
Chemikal Underground welcome members of Shipping News, Rachel’s, The For Carnation, and Shannon Wright in the form of new band King’s Daughters &... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Bwani Junction – Fully Cocked
Edinburgh quartet Bwani Junction have been standing out from their peers due to their world-traipsing influences for a while now. Obvious connotations have p... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Interviews
Bwani Junction: “Everyone wants to think that their music is so fucking original...”
With their bastardised name, ‘playful’ artwork and fresh Afro-Caribbean sounds, Edinburgh quartet Bwani Junction have been brightening up the musical underbelly of Auld Reekie and beyond for some time. With their debut album now on the horizon, the time felt right to take stock of their story Read more »| 03 Nov 2011
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Live Music
Kono Michi @ The Caves, 27 October
As a virtuoso violinist and regular collaborator with Yo Yo Ma, there is an expectaiton amongst the small audience in The Caves this evening for Michi Wianck... Read more »| 03 Nov 2011 -
Playlists
Tom Vek's Desert Island Discs
Tom Vek spills the contents of his emergency musical medicine cabinet, should he find himself shipwrecked Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Live Music
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds @ The Usher Hall, 27 October
Six years ago, a guitarist walked off this very stage with the band he will forever be synonymous with. Since then he has become a husband again and a father... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
The Black Dog – Liber Dogma
While The Black Dog’s early-90s IDM peers tend to have pursued either bewilderingly expansive realms in their later releases (Autechre, Aphex Twin), or... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Joker – The Vision
Joker's foray into longplayer territory mirrors that of fellow dubstep pioneers Skream, Benga and Artwork's Rubicon-crossing debut of last year, Magnetic Man... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Clean George IV – God Save The Clean
Enigmatic Edinburgh citizen Clean George has busied himself with a classical music degree, a lawsuit from Kraftwerk and myriad projects since we last heard f... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Atlas Sound – Parallax
Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox retains the mid-tempo groove of his band's more recent output on this third officially released LP as Atlas Sound. A s... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
Billed as “an electronic song cycle based around lo-fi audio procured from television advertisement compilations,” Replica plays out like an... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011 -
Reviews
Ringo Deathstarr – Shadow EP
It's been said before, but the point remains valid: Ringo Deathstarr, whilst undeniably good, are so overwhelmingly derivative that it surely calls into ques... Read more »| 02 Nov 2011