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 MusicThe National @ O2 Academy, 26 Nov
Returning to the status of critical darlings without ever quite returning to the same well, The National have built a reputation of being one of the most sol... Read more »| 21 Oct 2010 -
Live MusicDOOM @ The Arches, 20 Oct
DOOM has released some of the most fascinating hip-hop albums of the new millennium and created a lexicon that transcends the standard of most contemporary e... Read more »| 20 Oct 2010 -
ReviewsThe Fruit Tree Foundation – First Edition
It’s tempting to be abnormally lenient towards a record borne of a good cause, with lyrical ideas that deal with difficult, easily overwrought themes o... Read more »| 19 Oct 2010 -
Live MusicKilling Joke @ HMV Picture House, 15 Oct
Revered for their role in rearranging rock’s ever-changing template at least twice – from post-punk frontrunners to proto-industrial metal pionee... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
ESG - Dance to the Best of ESG
South Bronx's ESG (Emerald Sappire and Gold) are three street-smart sisters by the name of Scroggins who introduced punks' DIY ethic into dance music way bac... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010 -
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Teebs – Ardour
Los Angeles has never been more protean in dance circles than it is right now and here is Teebs to make the most of the scene's 'Seattle moment'. A collabora... Read more »| 18 Oct 2010
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Live Music
KRS-One @ The Liquid Room, 7 Oct
“Waste no time,” KRS-One pleads of his DJ in-between classics. Aware that this boom-bap battle mass falls at the mercy of The Liquid Room's infam... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
Live Music
The Twilight Sad / Errors @ The Liquid Room, 12 Oct
The final date of a joint tour between Scotland’s foremost post so-and-so combos was always going to be catnip for a certain clientele. In fact, one ra... Read more »| 15 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band – Anda Jaleo
Colorado born Josephine Foster appears to be on an endless journey of musical discovery, an opera-school drop-out – oh the shame – she’s si... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Agnes Obel – Philharmonics
It’s not hard to muster some gushing verbal diarrhoea of how enchanting, bewitching, and other-worldly Philharmonics sounds but the truth is that with ... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Panico – Kick
It seems almost a cruel joke that Chemikal release this just as we approach the depths of winter, because Kick, from Chilean quintet Panico is the ideal soun... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
Mice Parade – What It Means To Be Left-Handed
Ever since their inception in 1998, Adam Pierce’s Mice Parade have emblemised bold ambition, baulking any calls to conform with a melting pot of influe... Read more »| 14 Oct 2010 -
Live Music
No Age / Male Bonding @ Stereo, 9 Oct
For Glasgow fans of Sub Pop Records, tonight was a brutally hard choice. With Mudhoney also playing down the road at The Arches, a crucial decision needed to... Read more »| 13 Oct 2010 -
Interviews
Tut Vu Vu: Stardust From Tomorrow
The Phantom Band's Andy Wake eulogises the late, great horror R&B show that was Uncle John & Whitelock to explain the origins of Tut Vu Vu Read more »| 12 Oct 2010 -
Reviews
The Orchids – The Lost Star
Veterans of the Glasgow scene, The Orchids cut their teeth twenty years ago with cult Bristol based Sarah Records, lending the kind of jangly indie credentia... Read more »| 12 Oct 2010