Interviews
The Skinny discusses new releases and record choices with prominent artists and producers; covering everything from albums and songs to influences and matters of the heart.
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Interviews
Meursault: Chatting With Tongues
In these financially dubious days where loyalty is worth less than the flagging Pound, Meursault's devotion to Edinburgh is admirable. Billy Hamilton catches up with frontman Neil Pennycook to uncover just what it is that keeps his band under the watch of Auld Reekie Read more »| 04 Nov 2008 -
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DeSalvo: Schizophonic
DeSalvo elicit as much fear as they do admiration from those privy to their catharsis Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
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Can He Still Kick It?: Five Degrees of Q-Tip
Next Monday (3 Nov, 2008), hip-hop legend Q-Tip (known in some circles as Kamaal the Abstract, but his mum shouts Jonathan Davis out the back door at tea tim... Read more »| 31 Oct 2008 -
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Death Cab Have the Facts and They're Voting: Change
The USA is in its biggest economic crisis in years. Hurricanes are literally tearing the country's infrastructure apart. The upcoming election is the most pivotal in years. Oh, and there's a war going on? Finbarr Bermingham finds Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla with a head full of steam Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
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Jack & Kyle: "The D Will Never Die!"
"It’s important to me that music be glorious. And it’s important to me that whatever we do next be glorious. But will it be a tour? Will it be a movie? Will it be a TV show? Or will it just be me and Kyle talking to you? I don’t know. One thing’s for sure, it shall be glorious." - Jack Black Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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These Arms Are Snakes: Apocalypse? No!
Office jobs? Pension plans? Breaking bands? These Arms Are Snakes crave not these things, as Brian Cook tells Ryan Drever. Read more »| 29 Oct 2008
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Ready to Receive: Parts & Labor Reveal New LP
Is it a moog? Is it a keyboard? Or is it just a bloody bagpipe? Don't trouble yourself. B.J. Warshaw of popular Brooklyn instrument recylists Parts & Lab... Read more »| 23 Oct 2008 -
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Things Get A Little Fucked Up
As Fucked Up's second full-length LP begins to ooze out of speakers across the land, Jorge Marticorena has a nice little chat with frontman Pink Eyes about punk rock, self-induced injuries, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and working out Read more »| 21 Oct 2008 -
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The Everlasting Gaze
Alongside Danny Boy and DJ Lethal, Erik "Everlast" Schrody once upon a time rocked crowds as part of New York hip-hop combo House of Pain before they were dr... Read more »| 16 Oct 2008 -
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Band... I mean Banned
Thank god (or whatever) for freedom of expression! Pity the repressed denizens of countries under the influence of communism or dictatorships! Thankfully our... Read more »| 13 Oct 2008 -
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FatCat: The Purr-Fect Label
Now one of the UK’s most exciting and eclectic labels, FatCat Records has come a long way since its early vinyl shack days. Billy Hamilton caught up with co-founder Dave Cawley to discover how he keeps the operation purring Read more »| 07 Oct 2008 -
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Kurt Wagner of Lambchop: The Dude Abides
Lambchop have been attributed the tag of "the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge during the 1990s". Kurt Wagner still can't believe people turn up to his gigs. Finbarr Bermingham had a word with the head honcho and found out that he really is "just a dude" Read more »| 06 Oct 2008 -
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Go Zoey, Go Go Go
Ally Brown sits down for a pint with Zoey Van Goey, another international band based in Glasgow that we can claim as our own to strengthen the team Read more »| 03 Oct 2008 -
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Jenny Lewis: Born to Do It
From Hank III to Hayseed Dixie, subverting the old model of country music is no new phenomenon, nor is the rhetoric of the traditionalists who can’t get their heads around it. Rilo Kiley's frontwoman tells Dave Kerr how she cut her own path... Read more »| 02 Oct 2008 -
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Neon Neon: Acceptable in the Noughties
Neon Neon may not have won the Mercury Music Prize, but arriving for the event in a pair of time-travelling cars (if Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown had his way) with lego-brick medallions hanging from their necks, the eccentric duo could not be missed. The album is equally colourful, but Nick Mitchell hears that it took real creative discipline to make it. Read more »| 01 Oct 2008