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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Interviews
Jawbox Revisited: A Special Sweetheart
Post-hardcore forefathers Jawbox re-release their long out-of-print masterpiece this month, Chris Cusack rediscovers its charm and considerable influence. Read more »| 10 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Most musicians will never have to follow an album like Ys. Unwinding across three discs, the epic Have One On Me develops the ideas bubbling within its intim... Read more »| 10 Mar 2010 -
Live Music
Picore @ 13th Note, 4 March
If the lo-fi noodling of last single Pick Up Sticks was your introduction to Super Adventure Club, their presence on such a noisy bill might raise eyebrows. ... Read more »| 09 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
What do you get when you cross the creative force behind a soft-spoken indie/pop/alt country collective and a sonic whiz kid with a list of collaborators as ... Read more »| 09 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Cocos Lovers – Johannes
There’s an unquestionably familial feel to their debut album, rendering Johannes more of a songs-around-the-campfire piece Read more »| 06 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Two years is clearly a long time in Laura Marling’s world. In the interim since Alas, I Cannot Swim, the Hampshire-born nu-folkster has gone from a hon... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010
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Reviews
Wooden Shjips - Vol. 2
Turns out that the ghosts of some 60s acid-casualties have possessed a modern day group of San Franciscans in order to have them to play tunes of a forty yea... Read more »| 04 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Bonobo - Black Sands
There are a few new strands woven into the tapestry of Simon Green’s Bonobo. The surprises start with Kiara Prelude, whose lush strings drop in... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
Damon's Finest Five
Blur – Parklife (1994) Britpop's finest hour, the album that launched a thousand magazine trend pieces about Essex lads behaving badly. So, that's mid-... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Autechre - Oversteps
Having aggressively tested the limits of loop-based electronic music with the diamond-perfect vignettes of 2008's Quaristice, Oversteps finds Autechre revisi... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
City Dweller, Successful Fella
Damon Albarn has come a long way since Blur and the heights of Britpop. As the third Gorillaz album gets ready to launch, we consider Albarn's development from indie-rock singer to multi-genre auteur. Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
To Rococo Rot - Speculation
For their eighth album, To Rococo Rot maintain their established aesthetic - impersonal atmosphere, sparingly stocked with isolating electronics and ... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Reviews
Sennen - Age Of Denial
Norwich’s Sennen brush aside the Alan Partidge jokes in favour of grungey shoe-gaze post-rock. From the title track’s fuzzy opening seconds to th... Read more »| 03 Mar 2010 -
Interviews
The Paradox of Choice: Dillinger Escape Plan Interviewed
As The Dillinger Escape Plan prepare to break loose with album number four this month, guitarist Jeff Tuttle explains how a modern problem forced them to write their most expansive offering to date. Read more »| 02 Mar 2010 -
Playlists
Jeff Tuttle's Party Smashers
If you thought the Dillinger Escape Plan were unpredictable, take a look at the mavericks who got Jeff Tuttle interested in picking up a guitar in the first place. Read more »| 02 Mar 2010