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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ReviewsRestlesslist - The Rise And Fall Of The Curtain Club
The beats are stale, the samples are clichéd and overall, it’s too obvious this is a vanity project Read more »| 02 Jun 2008 -
ReviewsLet's Go Outside - Girls Don't Like Me Remixes
Using every trick in the techno handbook, Mark Broom's take satisfies both rhythmic and melodic needs Read more »| 02 Jun 2008 -
ReviewsHarvey Mckay - Output EP
Yet again Glasgow is the birthplace for another techno feast Read more »| 02 Jun 2008 -
Live Music
Deerhunter @ Stereo, 15 Jun
These kids may well give old Kevin Shields and his gang a run for their money Read more »| 02 Jun 2008 -
Reviews
V/A - Kiss Presents the Mix Tape by Shortee Blitz
There are certain things that more discerning (read "pretentious") musos will only admit to liking when they've had a bit too much to drink: Donner kebabs, a... Read more »| 01 Jun 2008 -
ReviewsErrors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
A brilliantly synthetic album Read more »| 29 May 2008
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Reviews
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Swedish songstress delivers very promising debut Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
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Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
Awash with striding cuts of teenage gusto, this is an exhilarating and triumphant debut - just remember to don those ear-plugs. Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
Playlists
I Hear a New World (June, 2008)
Innovative and unusual music from Scotland and beyond Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
Reviews
Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat
Could this be the worst album of the decade? Read more »| 29 May 2008 -
Interviews
Tokyo Police Club: Not Just Making Up The Numbers
They're young, ambitious and, er, highly professional. Not your average rock band then, as Finbarr Bermingham comes to learn Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
ReviewsHeadhunter - Initiate EP
It’s a solid offering adding more weight to the Tempa name and indeed helping to establish a name that’s maybe not the most prolific or talked about producer on the block Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Reviews
Testcard - Lines
Sounding like a extremely lame child of The Faint, the album takes the late 80s pop blueprint and... well, doesn't really do much with it Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Live Music
The Aliens @ The Liquid Room, 16 Jun (CANCELLED - 3 Jun)
Quality pop songs in the key of Fife, if you will Read more »| 28 May 2008 -
Reviews
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Will The Real Jim James please stand up? Read more »| 28 May 2008