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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Reviews
Loch Lomond - Night Bats EP
Portland has roughly half a million inhabitants, and surveys reveal that approximately four-hundred thousand of them are in dead good bands (citation... Read more »| 29 Apr 2010 -
Live Music
Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers @ Wee Red Bar, 22 April
Whatever the result of the election, we can rest easy that today's young adults have their priorities appropriately ordered: judging by this excellent turnou... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Live Music
The Primitives @ Stereo, 22 April
“That’s a blast from the past, eh?” notes the glass-cased ticket-seller. “Met her a few years back - was training to be a hairdresser... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Interviews
New Blood: Dam Mantle
Keeping Glasgow's historical form for producing forward-thinking electronica artists alive, relocated Kent native Dam Mantle finds himself in the right place at the right time Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Sage Francis - Li(f)e
Hip-hop isn’t dead, but it seems that any half-way sensible rapper feels a need to assert their relevance and adaptability into shifting musical landsc... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Interviews
National Anthems
From their formative days in Cincinnati to the dizzy heights of Bloodbuzz Ohio, we present a chronological guide to The National's catalogue to date Read more »| 28 Apr 2010
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Live Music
Live Music Highlights - May 2010
Featuring former members of the much missed Uncle John and Whitelock, Jacob Yates & The Pearly Gate Lockpickers plough a similarly fertile furrow of wild... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Interviews
The New Statesmen: The National Talk High Violet
Cool, calm and collected: The National cut refined figures amongst the indie fraternity. The Brooklyn quintet's principal songwriters Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner talk humble beginnings and reveal how accurate a depiction that really is Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Ganglians - Monster Head Room
Acid folk, psychedelic lo-fi, forest pop. Brand them how you will – Ganglians couldn’t care less. The Sacramento ensemble’s latest offering... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Double U - Pineapple Dream
With ‘dream pop’ being a legitimate category on your iPod these days, Franck Rabeyrolles’ alter ego Double U will provide a perfect... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking it Easy
Those familiar with the music of Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, won’t be surprised by the title of his first batch of original songs since 2007&rsq... Read more »| 28 Apr 2010 -
Live Music
Fuck Buttons @ The Arches, 24 April
The giant leap that Fuck Buttons boldly took with last year's Tarot Sport is in full evidence tonight at the Arches. Previously the Bristol duo’s live ... Read more »| 27 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
Melissa Auf der Maur - Out of Our Minds
Part of a multi-media art project that includes a film, a graphic novel and numerous slightly flaky blog posts, Auf der Maur is aiming high with Out ... Read more »| 27 Apr 2010 -
Reviews
The National - High Violet
There’s something strangely beautiful about an unexpected dusk: when you realise early evening has segued into night imperceptibly and without fanfare;... Read more »| 27 Apr 2010 -
Interviews
Deftones: Garage Days Revisited
As Deftones prepare to emerge from their Sacramento bunker, Chino Moreno and Abe Cunningham talk going back to basics with Diamond Eyes, a love of Risk and a lasting wish to collaborate with Mogwai Read more »| 26 Apr 2010