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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ReviewsCutaways - Earth and Earthly Things
Cardiff has Los Campesinos!, Glasgow has Dananananaykroyd, and now Belfast weighs in with their power-pop, equal-opportunity vocalled Cutaways. The two forme... Read more »| 21 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
Doves Of Disorder - Doves of Disorder EP
Whether unwittingly or not, Doves of Disorder have thrust themselves into the space recently vacated by Sleater-Kinney, albeit in a less-affected and unfortu... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
Nneka - No Longer At Ease
Nneka is a one-woman melting pot, the product of a Nigerian upbringing and a German university education, but her music is where the real dizzying mix is fou... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
Videos
The T Sessions: Mike Nisbet
Off the Beaten Tracks is a music video project in unusual surroundings. The Skinny and Off the Beaten Tracks have teamed up to bring you music videos from ar... Read more »| 18 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsAsa Ransom - An Asa Ransom Release
Relocating to New York must have been a no-brainer for Asa Ransom, hailing as they do from Marion, Indiana, whose only recent(ish) claim to fame has been hos... Read more »| 17 Jul 2009 -
ReviewsSons of Noel and Adrian - Rivers EP
So perfectly crafted are the three songs on this limited EP that it is hard to believe it was recorded by twelve people. While other modern ‘folk&rsquo... Read more »| 17 Jul 2009
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ReviewsDJ Food - One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World
DJ Food returns with his first new music in eight years Read more »| 16 Jul 2009 -
Festivals
The Edge Festival @ Various Venues (Edinburgh), 7-31 Aug
The organisers of Edinburgh's Edge festival have started well by securing several big-name revival acts: ex-Talking Head David Byrne, post-punkers Magazine, ... Read more »| 15 Jul 2009 -
Live Music
The Bouncing Souls @ The Cathouse, 21 Jun
An unknown rapper supporting punk rock legends seems like a bad joke. Those fears materialise when several punk elitists begin chanting insults. P.O.S. defie... Read more »| 13 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
The Domino State- Firefly
It’s a well known but perhaps unspoken rule that to plagiarise U2 will not make you popular with the critical press but may sell you a few records. Th... Read more »| 13 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
The Rumble Strips - Welcome to The Walk Alone
Try as hard as we reviewers do, we're all plagued with a pretentious edge. We constantly strive to squeeze in the word zeitgeist, eager to slam any album th... Read more »| 13 Jul 2009 -
Live Music
AC/DC @ Hampden Park, 30 Jun
With a combined age of 285, it seems miraculous that AC/DC should make it back to Hampden Park in the year of Homecoming, the legendary quintet literally cr... Read more »| 10 Jul 2009 -
Reviews
The Dead Weather - Horehound
It’s natural that Jack White has dominated discussions of the Dead Weather. With two bands already under his command, the unveiling of a new blues-rock... Read more »| 09 Jul 2009 -
Festivals
T Break 2009
Another year, another T in the Park, another T Break. Of all the events on the Scottish circuit, none is likely to provoke as much bickering, eyebrow raising... Read more »| 09 Jul 2009 -
Live Music
Lord Cut-Glass @ King Tut's, 27 Jun
Temporarily shorn of The Phantom Band's tendency to marry Krautrock with avant-folk, frontman Rick Redbeard (***) is stripped down to his essence tonight, ev... Read more »| 09 Jul 2009