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
The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind
If you want a dose of meticulously produced So’Cal sunshine pop, it’s right here Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Live MusicTigerfest 2008, Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline, 14-18 May
Remember, the Forth Road Bridge is toll free now Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Live Music
Black Mountain, Stereo, 14 May
A night big on damn fine facial hair, riffs and melodies Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Live MusicIron and Wine, ABC, 12 May
Don't judge this particular book by its cover Read more »| 22 Apr 2008 -
Reviews
Guru Jazzmatazz - Jazzy Wayz
The new single from Guru Jazzmatazz, Jazzy Wayz, is a sample-laden hip-hop track trying to take on a soulful vibe, but not quite cutting it. In short, this i... Read more »| 14 Apr 2008 -
Live MusicBulleit Sessions @ Maggie May's, 10 Apr
It is in the way that each act veers between the functional and the dysfunctional that the drama is created, and the contrast between each of their styles only heightens the effect Read more »| 13 Apr 2008
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ReviewsLupe Fiasco - Paris, Tokyo
If you like your hip-hop lazy, feel good and unashamedly commercial, this’ll be right up your street Read more »| 05 Apr 2008 -
Reviews
Witch - Paralyzed
Five grown men so indebted to proto-70s metal that 'Black Sabbath' is written through them like a stick of rock Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Interviews
Farewell to Triptych
The end is nigh for Scotland's premier showcase in avant-garde music. Paul Mitchell talks up a swansong for one of the more innovative festivals to grace these isles in the last decade Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Live Music
Sergeant @ The Doghouse, 30 Apr
Yeah, there's a faux Mancunian twang in there, but if it's as fresh as a Scottish glen, then fuck it, who cares? Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Interviews
Frightened Rabbit show no fear
Having hopped from their dark burrow into the big, wide world, Glasgow's Frightened Rabbit are ready to bring their live show to a hutch near you, Nick Mitchell finds Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Reviews
Wake The President / Kingfishers Split 7""
Wake The President betray their love of all things Postcard with You Can't Change That Boy, another impeccably stylish taster of a band on the up Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Interviews
Pajo reborn as Dead Child
David Pajo tells Dave Kerr why he's taken a break from recording psychedelic solo records to satisfy a craving for something more aggressive, but not necessarily heavier Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Interviews
The Black Kids are Alright
With the music industry in a state of disarray and new artists using innovative techniques to channel their music directly to the fans, Billy Hamilton met up with Florida pop-cooers Black Kids to find out exactly how a fledgling transatlantic act survives in 2008. Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Interviews
True Confessions of a Dashboard
Chris Carrabba may be famous for his over-earnest lyrics about broken hearts, but when Hamza K recently caught up with the Dashboard Confessional leader the chat was all about the spirit of punk rock and that trip he took to jail Read more »| 01 Apr 2008