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Live MusicHomecoming Live: The Final Fling @ SECC, 28 Nov
The Final Fling marks the end of the year's Homecoming festivities, showcasing some of the finest musical talent the country has to offer. Stalwarts such as ... Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
Opinion2009: A Year in Records (#1)
Merriweather Post Pavilion is going to be spoken of in rarefied terms for years to come, so you'd better get used to it Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
Opinion2009: A Year in Records (#2-10)
2. GRIZZLY BEAR - VECKATIMEST Through no fault of their own, sometimes great bands acquire unhealthy legacies: Nirvana, I'm looking at you particularly. One ... Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
Live MusicSkeletonwitch @ Ivory Blacks, 30 Nov
Tonight is proof positive that the thrash resurgence continues to gain momentum, with mobs of younger fans wholeheartedly embracing the sounds of vintage met... Read more »| 07 Dec 2009 -
Interviews
My 2009, by Alison Mosshart
After tasting success with her "day job" last year, Alison Mosshart of The Kills and The Dead Weather tells The Skinny how 2009 was for her... Read more »| 03 Dec 2009 -
Reviews
The Stark Palace - The Stark Palace
Thank God there are still people making albums like this. Straddling the divide between avant-garde lunacy and controlled madness in a way that would make Ca... Read more »| 02 Dec 2009
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Reviews
Various Artists - The Tolbooth Sessions
Did the Large Hadron Collider trigger some kind of quantum boson explosion while we weren't looking? Has some mad scientist retrofitted a DeLorean with a flu... Read more »| 02 Dec 2009 -
Opinion
Scottish Albums of the Decade #1: Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
When placing Idlewild’s sophomore album 100 Broken Windows into the context of Scottish albums of the decade, it becomes all too clear how much the mus... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Opinion
Scottish Albums of the Decade #2: The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
The world is set up wrong. We know this now. While Glasvegas gallivant around the globe, filling stadiums with their sing-along dogshite nonsense, another gr... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Opinion
Scottish Albums of the Decade #3: Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
It's easy to cast the mind back to the dawning of the millennium and perhaps fondly recall a pre-9/11 sense of optimism and renewal – I mean, the bug d... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Opinion
Scottish Albums of the Decade #5: Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
If 1998's Music has the Right to Children was the record that opened up modern electronic music to whole new vistas of possibility – both in terms of i... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Opinion
Scottish Albums of the Decade #4: Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
On the face of it, their product is hardly revolutionary. Yet, for the past year and a half, The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit has been the album... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Reviews
Various - A Sort of Homecoming: The Best of New Scottish Music
Billing itself as an alternative take on this year’s Homecoming celebrations, Fourtrak’s opportunistic collection of new Scottish talent is disap... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
OpinionScottish Albums of the Decade #6: King Creosote - KC Rules OK
Not even King Creosote's mother owns everything in his discography, as it's filled with dozens of rare Fence Collective releases and CD-Rs. But if this isn't... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009 -
Opinion
Scottish Albums of the Decade #7: Arab Strap - Monday at the Hug and Pint
“Enjoy it while you can, because it won’t last long…” So sings Malcolm Middleton over the characteristically resolute backdrop of Th... Read more »| 01 Dec 2009