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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ReviewsWhiplash - Losing Control
Australian MC, Whiplash, doesn't so much spit rhymes as dribble them, drooling nearly indecipherable vocal trails that are nearly all lost in a maze of gawdy... Read more »| 04 Apr 2010 -
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Officer Kicks - Citywide Curfew
Remember the music of The Winter Olympics? That was Officer Kicks. What about the interludes on Soccer AM? Also Officer Kicks. Even if you don’t recal... Read more »| 03 Apr 2010 -
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Dam Mantle – Grey EP
There’s definitely something in the water in Glasgow; from the city that’s only just given us Rustie and the squelchy aural bliss that is... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
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Woodpigeon - Die Stadt Muzikanten
Written in Berlin, contemplating the lives of his Austrian/German grandparents with one eye on his former home of Edinburgh, Canadian songwriter Mark... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
ReviewsSparrow and the Workshop – Crystals Fall
It’s understandable that Sparrow and the Workshop want their best songs to adorn what is absolutely, definitely their debut album this time around. The... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen - April 2010: WHY? Takeover
Armed with the April singles and a ghetto blaster from 1991, Dave Kerr finds WHY? frontman Yoni Wolf "pimpin" in a Glasgow hotel room decked out like Pat Butcher's knocking shop. "I don’t like much stuff," Mr Wolf cautions, "but it’s going to take something pretty serious to make me give a song the thumbs down..." Read more »| 01 Apr 2010
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Live Music
Book Now: Primavera Sound
Face it: the weather can make or break a festival. You and your friends can spend almost £200 each on a ticket, plus more on camping gear, petrol and b... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
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Jaguar Love – Hologram Jams
Oozing with brash stabs of dirty synth and riddled with some truly ear-piercing, almost glam rock vocal screeches, Hologram Jams – the second album fro... Read more »| 01 Apr 2010 -
ReviewsSlaraffenland - We're On Your Side
What Sigur Rós are to Iceland, Efterklang have become to Denmark; the critical darlings through whose prism outsider eyes are prone to viewing –... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
The Moth and the Mirror: Closer to the Flame
After an age of bubbling under, elusive sextet The Moth and The Mirror feel they're finally ready to make waves Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Meursault's All Creatures Will Make Merry: Track-By-Track
Meursault's Neil Pennycook gives us the lowdown on his band's highly anticipated second album, All Creatures Will Make Merry Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
ReviewsSweet Apple - Love and Desperation
Whilst nothing can fully erase the pain of losing a loved one, getting asked to join a band with J. Mascis is probably a pretty good distraction by anyone's ... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
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Malachai - Ugly Side of Love
This Bristol-based duo would appear, on the face of it, to be suffering from an identity crisis. Formerly Malakai, this first full-length release ventures do... Read more »| 31 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Efter the Parade
Efterklang's Casper Clausen explains why Denmark's foremost orchestral indie artists have been finding it difficult to limit the scope of their ambition Read more »| 30 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Broken Bells: Chancing the Night Away
Having kept their collaboration under wraps for two years, The Shins' James Mercer explains why he and über-producer Danger Mouse didn't want Broken Bells to jump the gun Read more »| 30 Mar 2010