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 MusicPortishead @ Corn Exchange
The core style of the old Portishead now informs the 'filler' of the new Read more »| 03 May 2008 -
Live Music
Your Sound: Is it any good?
King Tuts Wah Wah Hut will play host to Glasgow rockers 1990's who will be spinning on the decks a selection of tunes from unsigned acts on Sunday afternoon.... Read more »| 01 May 2008 -
Live MusicJ-Live & Cadence Weapon @ The Voodoo Rooms, 19 May
Two of hip-hop's most intelligent wordsmiths and rhyme-merchants are brought together for a unique double bill by those generous people at the Voodoo Rooms Read more »| 01 May 2008 -
Live Music
2 Days in Stereo @ Stereo, 23-24 May
This is no breach of any trade descriptions act, to be sure Read more »| 01 May 2008 -
Live MusicJamie Lidell @ The Liquid Room, 26 Apr
Jim might have received mixed reviews from critics thus far, but the general consensus is that Lidell truly shines as a live performer Read more »| 01 May 2008 -
Live MusicDirty Projectors @ Cabaret Voltaire, 25 Apr
Not a band you’d want to listen to on an empty stomach, but tonight they offer just enough sustenance Read more »| 01 May 2008
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Live Music
RZA (as Bobby Digital) @ The Arches, 26 Apr
The normally cavernous walls of the Arches were fit to burst tonight, as the RZA took to the stage and set off the crowd like a mortar in a bus shelter. Desp... Read more »| 01 May 2008 -
Reviews
Matmos - Supreme Balloon
a seriously mad but fantastic creation made out of ONLY synthesizers with no sampling or microphones in sight Read more »| 01 May 2008 -
Live Music
Joe Acheson Quartet @ The Jazz Bar, 25 Apr
Despite being one of the strangest Triptych line-ups yet, there was still some magnificently forward thinking music in the program this year, though not strictly limited to it Read more »| 26 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen - May, 2008
From Philadelphia to Norway (via Dundee, of course) Nick Mitchell treks the sonic globe in search of this month's best song. Read more »| 26 Apr 2008 -
Interviews
No Sleep Till Brooklyn
New York will always be home to the coolest cats in music, but every so often (almost cyclically) a new wave of bands emerge to remind us where it's at. Over... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
Interviews
MGMT For Dummies
Maybe Google isn't the most reliable information source in the world, as Finbarr Bermingham found out when he sat down with Brooklyn duo MGMT and accused them of being a couple of recovering acid heads Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
Interviews
Xiu Xiu As Birdwatchers
Ahead of Xiu Xiu's Glasgow date to support latest album Women As Lovers - Matt Gollock speaks to Jamie Stewart from the experimental indie outfit about about art, music and birdwatching Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
Interviews
Errors - Big in Finland
While some bands dream of breaking America, Errors accidentally broke Finland. Now, working backwards, the Glaswegians have their sights set on us, Nick Mitchell hears Read more »| 25 Apr 2008 -
Reviews
¡Forward Russia! - Life Processes
This album will surprise you. Whether it’s the monstrous Muse-like riff which breaks up the near incessant disco rhythm drums on Gravity & Heat, or... Read more »| 25 Apr 2008