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 MusicWire @ The Arches, 11 Sep
135 compulsory reasons to go and see Wire: (1) They are Wire (2) They are still playing music after 30 odd (odd being the operative word here) years (3) They... Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
InterviewsWe Were Promised Chit-Chat
The chiselled cheekbones of the new Indie™ order might be the nightmare of any discerning music hack, but when Billy Hamilton caught up with the lads from We Were Promised Jetpacks he found their infectious patter a breath of fresh air… Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsBallboy – I Worked On The Ships
Album number five, I Worked On The Shops looks set to continue Ballboy’s trend of garnering chin-stroking acclamation Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Tom Real & The Rogue Element - Disco of Doom
A musical attack from the internet radio stars Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsThe Foundling Wheel - The Foundling Wheel
A one man wail of screeching banshee sonics, San Francisco-born Ted Koterwas’ debut LP fucks and sucks its way into the skull’s decomposing grey matter Read more »| 25 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Karine Polwart - This Earthly Spell
Taking inspiration from her historical, rural surroundings, borders lass Karine Polwart has produced a thought provokingly poetic, bittersweet album Read more »| 22 Aug 2008
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Live Music
Santogold @ The Liquid Room, 19 Aug
Is the former A&R rep anything more than a carefully marketed, cross-genre musical magpie? Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Isosceles @ Cabaret Voltaire, 17 Aug
Angular guitar hits compliment the at-times carnivalesque organ pumping Read more »| 22 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsY'All is Fantasy Island - With Handclaps EP
YiFi are not just prolific - they're unstoppable Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Punch and the Apostles @ King Tut's, 16 Aug
Almost certainly festival music in waiting Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Kristin Hersh: Paradoxical Undressing @ Cabaret Voltaire, 13 Aug
With strange tales of hanging out with rats, lounging with lizards, growing up in a hippy commune and wearing elephant shit sandals, Hersh’s monologues are consistently colourful and fluidly poetic Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Be A Familiar - Pain In The Heart
On-stage energy can't mask recorded, replayable mediocrity Read more »| 21 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Super Adventure Club - Chalk Horror!
Super Adventure Club know it's no fun playing serious music if you have to take it seriously Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
Reviews
Manda Rin - DNA
It's become a backhanded compliment to say a band is "big in Japan," but Bis really were much bigger in the Far East than they ever were in Scotland, despite... Read more »| 20 Aug 2008 -
Interviews
Mercury Rev's Theory Of Evolution
As Finbarr Bermingham caught up with Jeff Mercel, percussionist, keyboardist and general man-about-band, we find out that Mercury Rev, unlike many of their fans, are not a band transfixed with the past and that their future is there to be embraced. Read more »| 20 Aug 2008