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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ReviewsOf Montreal - Id Engager
Id Engager, whilst a bizarre choice to close Of Montreal's forthcoming Skeletal Lamping, makes for an excellently jilted dance-pop single. Though a little li... Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
Fence Records: Keeping it Surreal Since 1996
From small beginnings, Anstruther-based label Fence Records has deservedly grown in stature over the last decade or so, and now boasts a dedicated fanbase and an impressive roster of artists whilst very much retaining its down-to-earth DIY ethos. Milo McLaughlin caught up with label lynchpins Johnny Lynch and Kenny Anderson, otherwise known as The Pictish Trail and King Creosote for a chinwag just before they played a blinding gig as part of the Retreat! mini-festival in Edinburgh last month Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
The Black Box Revelation - Live at the AB EP
Lands a little too close to derivative rockers Jet in its sound, but in that line of thinking these Belgians could have a hit on their hands Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Live MusicSerj Tankian @ ABC, 1 Sep
"Who likes the Beatles?", asks an upbeat Serj Tankian halfway through tonight's set. The sweaty masses packed into the ABC roar with approval as Tankian and ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsNiYi - I Love You All / Poached Eggs
St Martin’s drop-out in arts-meets-pop collision Read more »| 09 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
Under the Influence: Mogwai
Mogwai's Barry Burns walks us through five of the bands who have helped influence and sculpt the Glasgow quintet into the aural beast we fear today. Read more »| 08 Sep 2008
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Reviews
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Bloc Party have learned how to use a lot of new toys Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Festivals
Hydro Connect 2008 @ Inveraray Castle, 29-31 Aug
The Connect Festival – this year renamed Hydro Connect thanks to a sponsorship hook-up with Scottish Hydro Electric – has got everything going fo... Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
The Pictish Trail - A Powerhouse of Funk
Perfectly representing the organic mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation with quality songwriting and unselfconscious experimentation that characterises the output of the Fence Collective is Secret Soundz Vol.1, the first long-player from The Pictish Trail aka Johnny Lynch Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
ReviewsThe Coral - The Singles Collection
When the bass of Dreaming Of You bounces out the speakers, it's easy to remember why everyone got so excited in the first place Read more »| 08 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
Yeasayer in Conversation: Chris Keating on Beck, Barack and the Second Album
Yeasayer have been touring their debut album All Hour Cymbals relentlessly for the past year, so have Brooklyn's finest experimentalists had time to even con... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Calexico - Carried to Dust
The Arizonan duo are simply poets who make beautiful music, and Carried to Dust is no exception to the rule Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Infadels-A Million Pieces
Sometimes you need to ask yourself: if the London-based band Infadels suddenly ceased to exist, what would happen to the face of rock music as we know it? Ye... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Reviews
Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos
Bomb The Bass is back. As if he didn't create enough devastation the first time around in the 80s with genre-defining hit Beat Dis, Tim Simenon returns to de... Read more »| 05 Sep 2008 -
Interviews
How To Swim Take a Run at The Mill
Ink Miller of How To Swim tells Finbarr Bermingham of his affinity with a certain Cuban dictator as he rounds up the first month of The Mill Read more »| 05 Sep 2008