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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ReviewsThe Seventeenth Century - The Notes EP
The Seventeenth Century are a baroque folk pop collective threading strings and things through dramatic songsmithery. As such, they’re far from groundb... Read more »| 07 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsEverybody Was In The French Resistance... Now! - Fixin' The Charts, Volume One
In some of the more glowing appraisals of his work with Art Brut, Eddie Argos has been compared favourably to Craig Finn, barroom bard and Hold Steady’... Read more »| 06 Jan 2010 -
ReviewsDelphic - Acolyte
If New Order ever left you cold, this will give you hypothermia Read more »| 06 Jan 2010 -
Reviews
Diarmaid O Meara - Structured Noise
Structured Noise is the sort of thing Amnesty International would seek to make illegal under human rights laws. Sitting through the 72 long, long minutes of ... Read more »| 06 Jan 2010 -
Interviews
Grounds for Divorce
Uncompromising and inspired they may be, but something tells us that Divorce's incessant gigging is holding back one hell of an album. Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Interviews
Julian Casablancas: Vision of Division
With The Strokes seemingly more fragmented than ever and their long-awaited fourth album shrouded in uncertainty, frontman Julian Casablancas talks us through his own solo project and attempts to shed some light on the situation. Read more »| 05 Jan 2010
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Interviews
Regarding Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins has come a long way in his 30 year career thus far. From fronting one of the most important bands of the 1980s — Black Flag — to hi... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Festivals
Transmusicales 2009
It’s just gone 6pm and the crowd at La Salle de la Cite in Rennes is bearing witness to an unusual testimony. On stage, a lanky young Scot called Derek... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
InterviewsKraftwerk - The Catalogue
Self-styled Man Machine Milo McLaughlin delves into The Catalogue, a box set of eight remastered versions of classic Kraftwerk albums from 1975's Autobahn to 2003's Tour De France Soundtracks. As a body of work, it's the ultimate celebration of their 40th Anniversary. Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
Christmas Songwriters Club @ Leith Docker's Club, 23 Dec
The Christmas Songwriter’s Club adheres to three rules - sort of. One: no covers (apart from Bart Eagleowl’s hesitant attempt at Withered Hand&rs... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
DeSalvo @ Stereo, 19 Dec
The scene is in full effect tonight as a triple bill of local fixtures makes the fur stand up on everyone’s back, ladies included. Openers Gummy Stumps... Read more »| 05 Jan 2010 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Gift of Gab
Quannum MC and Blackalicious lynchpin Gift of Gab pictures life as Khan from Star Trek II, marooned on a dead planet with a record player and 10 choice slabs... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Reviews
You Me At Six - Hold Me Down
To underestimate angst rock is a dangerous practice. To those who have escaped adolescence in one piece, the aimless yelping of the latest mosh-by-numbers em... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Reviews
Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
As one half of prolific hip-hop duo Blackalicious, Tim Parker lived up to his alias with a flow that's seen him described by AllMusic as "one of the top MCs ... Read more »| 04 Jan 2010 -
Live Music
Them Crooked Vultures @ Corn Exchange, 15 Dec
Josh Homme embraces an expectant crowd consisting of – let’s not fool ourselves now – curious Queens, Foos and Zeppelin fans like he&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Jan 2010