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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Live MusicLadyhawk at Nice 'n' Sleazy Review
The Canadian quartet treats Glasgow's lucky minority to some of the most well-crafted and unaffected rock music since Sebadoh's heyday Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
Mercury Rev recapture their playful spirit with an enjoyable venture into electronica. Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Is It The Sea?
In place of normal audience interaction there is a palpable sense of bewitched reverence, even retrospectively on this CD Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsSeasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' And I Still Got Most Of It Left
Everybody's favourite hobo comes home to roost in disappointingly bland style Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
What now comprises The Stand Ins was originally intended to be the second disc of a double album with The Stage Names, which was instead released last year o... Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
Interviews
Go Zoey, Go Go Go
Ally Brown sits down for a pint with Zoey Van Goey, another international band based in Glasgow that we can claim as our own to strengthen the team Read more »| 03 Oct 2008
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Reviews
Army of Freshmen - Above the Atmosphere
Like a huge, fake, toothy grin, this is Prozac pop-punk at its most synthetic and processed Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsPutiferio - Ate Ate Ate
The translation from Italian for Putiferio means "chaos", and this record’s not short on that sentiment. Over the course of seven tracks, these contin... Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Nadja - Skin Turns To Glass
When Nadja come on you feel like everything should be moving in slow motion. There are countless oblique ways to describe Skin Turns To Glass without directl... Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
InterviewsJenny Lewis: Born to Do It
From Hank III to Hayseed Dixie, subverting the old model of country music is no new phenomenon, nor is the rhetoric of the traditionalists who can’t get their heads around it. Rilo Kiley's frontwoman tells Dave Kerr how she cut her own path... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsAttic Lights - Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights won’t win any awards for innovation, but it’s the familiar things in life that hit that sweet spot in your soul. Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
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Rozi Plain - Inside Over Here
There is a problem when trying to review an album like this, which woos you with its easy charms, which stills your spirit with its banjos rippling like a bu... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Frank Turner @ Oran Mor, 23 Oct
Formerly of hardcore upstarts Million Dead, Frank Turner has spent the last three years touring and refining his punk-folk sound across the UK. And while son... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Seasick Steve @ The Music Hall, 23 Oct
Dodging a beer cup thrown from the T in the Park crowd, Seasick Steve barked in his deep southern drawl: “Anyone throws any more shit at me and I&rsquo... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
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Enjoy Destroy - Enjoy Destroy EP
Contains enough moments of real astute writing to suggest that these guys could learn from their predecessors' mistakes Read more »| 02 Oct 2008