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
Camera Obscura: Going Over the Top
Camera Obscura's Gavin Dunbar and his trusty Rock Soldiers emerge from a year's incarceration to bring us My Maudlin Career. Here he weighs up life down in the bunker against time spent on the road. Read more »| 31 Mar 2009 -
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Pearl Jam: When Ten Turns Twenty
Almost two decades after it was first released, Pearl Jam's Ten arrives remixed and remastered. Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard and Mike McCready offer their reflections on the album that launched their career and nearly tore them apart. Ewen Millar listens. Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
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Under the Influence: St. Deluxe
Touted by Alan McGee as "a Scottish Nirvana for the 21st century" whilst also enjoying praise from Mogwai man Stuart Braithwaite, Glasgow's St. Deluxe have been making waves in their native city of late. Martin Kirwan tips his bonnet to five of the bands Read more »| 27 Mar 2009 -
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Fucked Up and The Bronx in interview: New World, Same Shredded Faces
The Bronx's Joby J. Ford and Fucked Up's Damien 'Pink Eyes' Abraham get political, financial, and discuss why hardcore is quite like a Scotch Egg, with Jason Morton. Read more »| 25 Mar 2009 -
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The Rakes Make Their Own Breaks
The Rakes have endured a rocky road with the critics. They’ve scaled dizzying heights of acclaim, but have also been tossed into the bottom barrel of disapproval. Lead singer Alan Donohoe tells Gordon Bruce why everyone should be back on board for album number three. Read more »| 24 Mar 2009 -
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XX Teens: Cut and paste, but don't copy
Choosing to borrow their name from a copier company was only the start of a rocky road to originality for XX Teens, Nick Mitchell discovers Read more »| 20 Mar 2009
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The Decemberists: The coolest months
The Decemberists have never been known to take a conventional approach to their music. They recorded their third album, Picaresque, in the basement of a Baptist church. Their last effort, 2006’s The Crane Wife, was lyrically and musically based on an old Japanese folk tale. Frontman Colin Meloy explains their latest to Jeff Miranda Read more »| 19 Mar 2009 -
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Robb Flynn: Raging with the Machine
Having witnessed the rise and demise of too many peers throughout their career so far (and almost their own), Machine Head have lived up to the mantra they s... Read more »| 17 Mar 2009 -
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Metallica's Justice Days Revisited
Back in 1988, what Metallica lacked in falsettos and hairspray they made up for with a conceptual assault entitled ...And Justice For All. Ringing in its 20th anniversary, Kirk Hammett and producer Flemming Rasmussen look back at the sessions Read more »| 16 Mar 2009 -
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Mastodon: Skye’s the Limit
Atlanta’s Mastodon return this month with Crack the Skye; featuring tales of outer body experiences and a close encounter with Grigory Rasputin, it's typically high concept material. Dave Kerr recently dragged Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher away from Tsarist Russia to ask what they’ve been smoking. Read more »| 10 Mar 2009 -
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Black Lips: "We Love Our Job"
…And if you spent January evading authorities in India before jetting off to Berlin before a UK tour, you would too. Jason Morton talks shops with Ian... Read more »| 09 Mar 2009 -
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Operator Is Go
Laptop? Check. Beeps, bleeps and technical geekery? Check. Electronica's best-dressed laptop wizard is back. Rosie Davies finds out exactly what he's been doing, and just how many computers he's destroyed Read more »| 06 Mar 2009 -
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Metallica: Flint & Weiland Question Hammett
Ahead of Metallica's eagerly anticipated return to Glasgow this month, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett fields key questions from The Prodigy's Keith Flint and St... Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
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DOOM vs. Dilla: A Posthumous Collaboration
Hip-hop in 2009 is to be showered with releases by J Dilla and (formerly MF) DOOM. Since Dilla’s death in February 2006, all manner of album reissues h... Read more »| 04 Mar 2009 -
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Aberfeldy Reloads
Dropped by Rough Trade, ripped-off by an unscrupulous TV ad company and enduring the horror of supporting James Blunt on tour: you can’t help but feel Edinburgh pop quintet Aberfeldy deserve better. Now with a new line-up, a comeback single on TenTracks and a third album in the pipeline, can singer Riley Briggs see a silver lining? Matt Meade buys the hungover songwriter a fortifying Guinness in a Leith pub… Read more »| 04 Mar 2009