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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Reviews
Jacopo Carreras - From Bed to Couch
It’s pretty remarkable when an album lives up to its press release, but with From Bed to Couch Jacopo Carreras has managed to create an intriguing synt... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsJubilee - In With the Out Crowd
Falsetto harmonies culminate in anthemic clamour, but scuzzier tracks among the B-sides suggest Jubilee haven’t left the filth and fury behind quite yet Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsClouds - We Are Above You
From amidst this curly forest of wifebeater-clad, hardcore aggression protrudes a huge, hard-rock priapism Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsYoshi - Save the Children
There must be something in the water over in Rosyth, and these Fifers have been drinking litres of it. Bringing together a lil’ psychedelia and a dash ... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsFujiya & Miyagi - Light Bulbs
Every noise Fujiya & Miyagi make is for rhythmic effect Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
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Lustmord - Other
Must surely qualify as hard work for even the most determined experimentalist Read more »| 27 Aug 2008
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Reviews
The French Quarter - We're Not French
We’re Not French transcends The French Quarter beyond the typical new-band confines marked “one for the future” and slaps them squarely into the realms of brilliance Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
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Lords of Bastard - Lords of Bastard
Sadly, this recording makes it nearly impossible to appreciate these grooves at their knee-shaking best Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
V/A - Ziggy Marley in Jamaica
Ziggy Marley was born in Trenchtown, Jamaica in 1968, the same year Toots & The Maytals released the seminal single Do The Reggay. It might seem like sta... Read more »| 27 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
A debut that ultimately proves to be determinedly heavyweight Read more »| 26 Aug 2008 -
InterviewsJoan As Police Woman - Nothing If Not Arresting
Having spent the early years of her career in such esteemed company as Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright and Antony Hegarty, Joan Wasser tells Paul Mitchell why it was necessary to step into the light on her own. Read more »| 26 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Michael Franti and Spearhead @ The Liquid Room, 20 Aug
As is becoming the norm each summer, the inimitable Franti takes The Liquid Room on a genre rollercoaster Read more »| 26 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Thomas Tantrum / Juno @ The Mill, Oran Mor, 20 Aug
If Juno grow up fast, they have the makings of a decent pop act Read more »| 26 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Dizzee Rascal @ The Liquid Room, 21 Aug
Dizzee leaves The Liquid Room a sweat bath of satisfaction in relative awe of a rushed performance Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Meshuggah at The Garage Review
Glasgow, on your knees Read more »| 25 Aug 2008