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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NewsRecord Store Day
On Saturday 18th April thousands of independently owned music stores across the world will celebrate 'Record Store Day.’ Over 50 independent record shops across the UK will participate. Special events are being planned such as free in-store performances by some of the best live acts and DJs around, signing sessions, free label samplers and goodie bags as well as Record Store Day exclusive vinyl and CD releases. Paul Mitchell sounds out the initiative with Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis and Avalanche Records boss Kevin Buckle Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
ReviewsCaroline Weeks - Songs for Edna
Bat for Lashes collaborator Caroline Weeks releases her solo debut record, a nine-track tribute to American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay Read more »| 30 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years
Dark Days/Light Years was not recorded in a studio by mere mortals with guitars; it was cooked up in a laboratory by third-eyed hippies with primary coloured... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights - April, 2009
The Hinterland festival 2009 takes place across multiple venues and features the cream of the crop in real indie rock Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
ReviewsLau - Arc Light
You know that Celtic folk music TV show on late at night, when most are either out, or asleep because they aren’t? Scottish boys Lau belong there. That... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Interviews
Pearl Jam: When Ten Turns Twenty
Almost two decades after it was first released, Pearl Jam's Ten arrives remixed and remastered. Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready offer their reflections on the album that launched their career and nearly tore them apart. Ewen Millar listens. Read more »| 27 Mar 2009
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Reviews
The Strange Boys - The Strange Boys and Girls Club
Many bands have tried, and failed, to approximate a '60s sound. The Hives settled for a cartoonish pastiche; Oasis reimagined the Beatles and The Kinks as mo... Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - The Snake
Put simply: The Snake is a trip Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
InterviewsUnder the Influence: St. Deluxe
Touted by Alan McGee as "a Scottish Nirvana for the 21st century" whilst also enjoying praise from Mogwai man Stuart Braithwaite, Glasgow's St. Deluxe have been making waves in their native city of late. Martin Kirwan tips his bonnet to five of the bands Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Tim Exile - Listening Tree
Introducing the boy wonder of techno Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Crystal Antlers – Tentacles
In the endlessly cyclical history of popular music, psychedelic rock has mostly been left to gather dust in record shops. There have been isolated attempts t... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Big Ned - Big Ned
Oozing out of the stereo like a Scottish version of Danzig, Big Ned positively revel in the fact that the Devil's playground is not exclusively in the Middle... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Thomas Truax - Songs From the Films of David Lynch
‘Lynchian’ has for too long been bandied around as a synonym for ‘surreal’, when it really fits only the truly unsettling and perplex... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Reviews
Jeniferever - Spring Tides
Further proof that Scandinavia is responsible for some of the most exciting and inventive music around just now, Swedish quartet Jeniferever are back with a ... Read more »| 26 Mar 2009 -
Live Music
Joe Gideon & The Shark @ Cabaret Voltaire
The rumbling applause says it all: Joe Gideon & The Shark has earned its stripes Read more »| 26 Mar 2009