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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ReviewsCatz 'n' Dogz - Stars of the Zoo
Better known for their work as 3 Channels with releases on Crosstown Rebels, Trapez, Pokerflat and pretty much every other underground techno label, Poland&r... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
Live MusicMogwai @ The Corn Exchange, 21 Oct
There's probably someone out there that hasn't heard about Mogwai. Some bearded, shuffling hermit, dragging behind him a shopping bag full of old newspapers.... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Playlists
I Hear a New World - Fence Records Special (Part Two)
An entirely rational flurry of Fence love picks up from where it left off last issue Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Metal Up Your Ass - October, 2008
For those of us not fooled by rampant tapping, This is Our Battlefield collective delivers a gig of some substance as Gainesville's Young Livers hit the 13th Note on the 10th Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
InterviewsNeon Neon: Acceptable in the Noughties
Neon Neon may not have won the Mercury Music Prize, but arriving for the event in a pair of time-travelling cars (if Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown had his way) with lego-brick medallions hanging from their necks, the eccentric duo could not be missed. The album is equally colourful, but Nick Mitchell hears that it took real creative discipline to make it. Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Live MusicLive Music Highlights - October, 2008
Superhotrightnow threepiece Johnny Foreigner deal in adrenalin-soaked scuzz pop and their gig at Edinburgh’s Cabaret Voltaire is one of this month’s hottest tickets Read more »| 01 Oct 2008
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Live Music
Tune Up 2008/09 @ Various Venues Across Scotland, Oct-Jan
With the four major cities in Scotland blessed with vibrant music scenes, it's easy to assume that the quadrant that exists between The Lemontree, The Barrow... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen - October, 2008
Another month, another motley mélange of lad-rock veterans, zingy pop tarts, moody rappers and local upstarts. Nick Mitchell wades in... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Tindersticks @ City Hall, Glasgow, 5 Oct
11 years is an eon in musical terms: between the years 1997 and 2008 we have borne witness to the demise of Britpop, the stillbirth that was nu-metal, and th... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
The Spinto Band @ Oran Mor, 29 Sep
When the six zany members of The Spinto Band hop, skip and jump on stage to play their equally mental brand of kazoo-fusion indie-pop, pulling funny faces an... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Ben Folds is a musician best described as ‘having his moments’. After three full-lengths with Ben Folds Five - each with hits outweighing misses ... Read more »| 01 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Rolo Tomassi @ Barfly, 26 Sep
One polite 'thank you' later and tinnitus is all that remains of their strident brilliance Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
A marked, misanthropic lunge away from the the tone of their previous rapturous output Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
United Fruit - Shake
United Fruit's rapid realisation of their potential, especially live, has been nothing less than remarkable Read more »| 30 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Hjaltalín - Sleepdrunk Seasons
Iceland’s Hjaltalín arrive with a healthy amount of homegrown success behind them, topping their domestic charts and being crowned ‘Bright... Read more »| 30 Sep 2008