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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ReviewsBroken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
Since Broken Records first emerged in Edinburgh in 2007, Scottish music fans have awaited their debut album with huge anticipation. The Skinny has featured or positively reviewed them several times, but does their debut deliver? Ally Brown places Until the Earth Begins to Part under the microscope. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Astrid Williamson - Here Come The Vikings
Astrid Williamson branches out into new textures and timbres. Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
InterviewsPatrick: The Boy Cried Wolf
Erstwhile prodigy Patrick Wolf attempts to get to grips with the driving forces and internal demons that have shaped his latest release. Paul Mitchell unravels The Bachelor's enigma Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
ReviewsMeursault - Nothing Broke EP
Amongst the 'bigger' songs on Meursault's debut album, A Single Stretch of Land showed that songwriter and vocalist Neil Pennycook can do pared-back and rest... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
InterviewsZappa Plays Zappa
In an increasingly homogenised musical climate, how do you approach maintaining the legacy of a man who was, and still is, ahead of his time? Joe Barton talks to Dweezil Zappa, band leader of the Zappa Plays Zappa project, to find out how he’s keeping the memory, and music, of his father alive Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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The Dirty Dozen - June, 2009
Plenty of new music in the D-12 sack this month, but Nick Mitchell finds that there's just no keeping a few Britpop veterans down Read more »| 01 Jun 2009
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Matteah Baim - Laughing Boy
Previously half of Metallic Falcons with Sierra Casady (of weird dream-pop eccentrics CocoRosie), second album Laughing Boy reveals Matteah Baim to be more g... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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The Ghost of a Thousand - New Hopes, New Demonstrations
At a certain point, hardcore kids got sick of just mashing trap kits and chugga-chugga riffs. It seems Brighton-hailing The Ghost of a Thousand were some of ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
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Bellini - The Precious Prize Of Gravity
Albini-produced discordance on Italian/American Collective's third offering Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Interviews
Meet E: A Werewolf in LA
Life rarely rained for Mark Everett, but it frequently poured. The man known as E has spent the past four years searching for answers from his heartbreaking past. Now he tells Finbarr Bermingham that he just might have found them Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Live Music
goNorth 2009 @ Inverness (Various), 11-12 Jun
And so it seems the festival season has crept back upon us, sidling up with all the stealth and dexterity of a hungry cat, almost eerily unnoticed. First the... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Live Music
Acoustic Ladyland @ The Voodoo Rooms, 24 Jun
Acoustic Ladyland are the antithesis of the anodyne listening experience provided by the common-or-garden ‘mellow sax trio’. Instead, London&rsqu... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Live Music
Manic Street Preachers at Barrowlands, 25 May
Another dreich night in Glasgow fails to dampen the spirits outside the Barrowlands as the hordes bay for the live premiere of Journal for Plague Lovers. Pla... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
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Jack Peñate - Everything is New
When Jack Peñate spasmodically sidestepped on to the scene like an epileptic crab in 2006, detractors quickly lumped him in with the jangly Mockneys d... Read more »| 29 May 2009 -
Live Music
Unicorn Kid @ Cabaret Voltaire, 23 Jun
Not many 17-year-olds from Edinburgh can say they’ve collaborated with the Pet Shop Boys...or played a live session on BBC Radio 1...or featured in NME... Read more »| 29 May 2009