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 Music
iLiKETRAiNS @ Cabaret Voltaire
iLiKETRAiNS certainly know how to put on a cataclysmic show. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
ReviewsAkron/Family - Love Is Simple
A truly original, brilliantly daft, wholly enjoyable piece of work Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
InterviewsPatti and Juliette: Born to Raise Hell
Mixing your drinks can yield explosive results, as Dave Kerr finds out when he's served music with a twist of politics from Patti Smith and Juliette Lewis at Jack Daniel's birthday bash in Tennessee Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
InterviewsFOUND can prove
We don't want to compromise our sound by trying to make it more commercial but at the same time we're not interested in making music which alienates people. - Tommy Perman Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
ReviewsFrightened Rabbit - Be Less Rude
Packs just enough verve and attitude to elevate it from the daily guitar-based grind Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Live Music
Metal Up Your Ass , November 2007
Remember, remember, the riff in November Read more »| 07 Nov 2007
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Live MusicElvis Perkins @ Nice 'N' Sleazy, 4 Nov
The next record might be full of numbers moving quickly through the fields of the familiar and on into the face of the unknown Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Reviews
sole and the Skyrider Band – sole and the Skyrider Band
Tim Holland's a sensitive sole: seemingly consumed by the imperialistic misdeeds of the western world after living in war-torn parts of Eastern Europe for a ... Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Reviews
The Dirty Dozen - November, 2007
It's a singles column, not a dating agency. And it ain't fussy, much... Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Reviews
Dave Gahan - Hourglass
Where Paper Monsters saw Dave Gahan peeping his head out from Depeche Mode's shadow to make an overdue claim as a songwriter, the bolder, comparatively bomba... Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Future Of The Left
Communicating from ""some god-forsaken ferry on the channel"" as he makes his merry way to Belgium to kick off a European tour with Against Me, Andy Falkous from the downright kick-arse FOTL rattles off a list of the albums he's been using to distract him from certain seasickness. Suffice it to say, there's not the slightest whiff of a Decemberists or Modest Mouse tune on this playlist. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Live Music
Live Music Roundup - November
When it comes down to it, what more could you ask for than a cold beer, a bag of fuzzy riffs and three metal-loving Tokyo lads hell bent on proving that Sabbath were, in actual fact, pussies? Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Live Music
Battles @ The Liquid Room, 18 Oct
Tonight feels like we've finally arrived in the 21st century Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Opinion
XFM Charts
Jim Gellatly's X:posure Top 101. Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone2. The Steeples - Britney's Tears3. The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division4. The Fire And I - Rev... Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Opinion
XFM Column
Rod Stewart? The Proclaimers? They'd all be tripping over their tartan scarves to get involved in the official Scotland song. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007