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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ReviewsYusuf Azak – Turn On the Long Wire
Yusuf Azak is a singer-songwriter without peer, thanks to a voice that proudly earns the epithet ‘acquired taste’. With each encounter, either in... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
ReviewsVarious – 45 A-Side Records Presents The Glad Cafe
While Glasgow’s hardly starved for venues, those living south of the Clyde are generally underserved. Opening in early 2011, the Glad Cafe aims to rect... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Reviews
Young Hunting – Attachment in a Child and the Subsequent Condition
If, as some suggest, the very idea of the album is currently facing an existential threat, nobody told Edinburgh’s Young Hunting. Attachment in a Child... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
InterviewsEdwyn Collins: Postcard from the Edge
The legendary Edwyn Collins talks new music, bright horizons, and his battle back from the brink Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
ReviewsThe Flowers of Hell – O
The Flowers of Hell aren’t a band in the typical sense, their assemblage more akin to that of an orchestra. Greg Jarvis assembles a revolving line-up o... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010 -
Reviews
Be A Familiar – To The Lighthouse
Employing a seven member line-up, with keys and brass included, Glasgow seven-piece Be a Familiar’s aesthetics hint at the multifarious instrumentation... Read more »| 01 Nov 2010
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Interviews
Someone's Watching Me! Geoff Barrow on They Live!
Geoff Barrow recommends a score and a film from Carpenter's vault (spoiler alert: there's no horror!) Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
Opinion
The Thing About John: Geoff Barrow on Carpenter
As John Carpenter prepares The Ward – his first feature-length film in almost a decade, Geoff Barrow explains his hold over Portishead Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – November 2010
The outrageously talented Meursault take November by the scruff of the neck with a trio of dates at Dundee Dexters on 4 Nov, Aberdeen Beach Ballroom on 5 Nov... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
Interviews
Zombie Zombie Pledge Allegiance to the Church of Carpenter
Zombie Zombie's Cosmic Neman explains the Parisian synth duo's fascination with the daddy of psychological thrillers, and why they were crushed by the corporate might of a toy giant for their dedication Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
ReviewsFormer Ghosts – New Love
Have you ever seen a caffeinated spider spin a web? Imagine the same effect when giving Emeralds crack – a rumbling beat you'd associate with Tearist (... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Elliott Smith – An Introduction to...
Following on from A Basement On The Hill and New Moon, this is Smith’s third outing from beyond the grave, and terming this lucky-dip cluster of songs ... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – November 2010
Kicking off what is perhaps Scotland’s single greatest metal month of the year, Finnish Cello quartet Apocalyptica, like off-cuts from Lucifer's Orches... Read more »| 29 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Charles Douglas – The Lives of Charles Douglas
When Charles Douglas first sang the lyric “Made a record without even trying/ No one could find it so they thought we were lying,” it’s unl... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Modern Superstitions – All The Things We’ve Been Told
Toronto’s Modern Superstitions aren’t afraid to walk under the jaunty ladder of indie pop. Debut album (EP really...) All The Things We’ve ... Read more »| 28 Oct 2010