The Days of the Triffids
By Ally Brown. Published 15 May 2008
By reissuing The Triffids' back catalogue, Domino are highlighting and adding substantially to the known canon of Australian indie-rock, as Ally Brown discovers
Music > The Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen - April, 2008
By Nick Mitchell. Published 01 April 2008Well-travelled beatniks, white soulsters, thrash metal and Scouting For Girls. It could only be this month's singles round-up.
Get Wired In - A Wireblock Records label special
By Colin Chapman. Published 01 April 2008The Skinny talks with Neil Morton about why collaboration can often produce the best outcome...
The Dirty Dozen - March
By Nick Mitchell. Published 06 March 2008From soft-rock stadium rockers to pan-continental beat plunderers, Nick Mitchell rakes around The Skinny's mail bag for that golden single
The Dirty Dozen - February, 2008
By Nick Mitchell. Published 05 February 2008With the annual self-induced sofa-dom of January now a fading memory, Nick Mitchell dusts off his headphones, grabs a stack of singles and offers his 12 cents...
The Dirty Dozen - January, 2008
By Nick Mitchell. Published 06 January 2008A new year of new musical masterpieces? Nick Mitchell assesses the first batch...
The Dirty Dozen - December, 2007
By Nick Mitchell. Published 07 December 2007After a month locked in the Skinny's music testing lab, Nick Mitchell delivers the verdict on December's single specimens
The Dirty Dozen - November, 2007
By Nick Mitchell. Published 07 November 2007It's a singles column, not a dating agency. And it ain't fussy, much...
The Dirty Dozen - October
By Nick Mitchell. Published 08 October 2007Knee deep in the coming month's singles, Nick Mitchell pans for gold.
Always Read The Label: SL Records
By Milo McLaughlin. Published 12 December 2006"We've had the head of A & R at a major record company calling us asking how we got such good publicity for Dawn of the Replicants' last album!" -...
The Skinny's Soundtrack to 2006
By Billy Hamilton, Dave Kerr, Chris Pickering, Milo McLaughlin, Jay Shukla, Ally Brown, and Nick Mitchell. Published 12 December 2006There's nothing quite like a raging brawl over what constitutes a good record to get the old adrenaline pumping at Skinny HQ: Stones or Strokes? Fantomas or Fornby? Beasties or...
Always Read The Label: Dischord
By Jamie Borthwick. Published 12 November 2006"Why fill your hours with the music that is the most deliberately commercially manipulative?" - Ian Mackaye
