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
Chis Schlarb - Twilight and Ghost Stories
A triumph of minimalist folktronic gorgeousness Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Cheer - Static Traps
Microscopically brilliant Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Lullabies for toad lickers Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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$olal - The Moonshine Sessions
A standard country album of the usual country songs about the usual country subjects. No more, no less Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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The Singles - Start Again
The Singles won't be going home with anyone but themselves for quite some time Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Interviews
The Mars Volta - Bringing out the dead
The latest LP from this El Paso prog posse is one born of late night tour bus Ouija board sessions that they claim invoked spirits strong enough to cast the band's world into chaos. Members left or suffered mental breakdowns, songs went missing and Cedric Bixler-Zavala ultimately became obsessive to the point that Omar Rodríguez-López had to steal the soothsaying 'gift' back and bury it in the desert. All that transcendental drama to produce what is easily one of their heaviest, most accomplished records to date. Dave Kerr put Egon Spengler on hold and spoke directly to the Mars Volta's helmsmen in an effort to make some sense of The Bedlam in Goliath. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008
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Interviews
Introducing: Yeasayer
Meet another Brooklyn band with an indiscriminate musical ear: this is Yeasayer, who released a debut album at the end of 2007, All Hour Cymbals, which is as colourful as the end of a rainbow, and equally as packed with treasures. Ally Brown plays leprechaun with Ira Wolf Tuton for a bit Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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Bob Mould: spinning plates
It's been three years since Bob Mould recorded a guitar album, but in that time he's been busy remixing, releasing electronic records and DJing a successful club night. Matt Gollock speaks to the ex-Sugar and Hüsker Dü legend about his return to the six strings he started with and the new roads he's chosen in-between Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Playlists
The Easy Gramophone ft LCD Soundsystem
5 free songs you can legally download, listen to and love Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Live Music
Rubix @ Henry's Cellar Bar
Sounding like some sort of supergroup formed by Axl Rose with the Flaming Lips, but hailing from Dundee, Luva Anna's entertaining blend is held in high regard by the Henry's populace tonight Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Live Music
British Sea Power @ The Arches, 26 Jan
Always a band that can be relied upon to produce songs of hidden depth and intriguing eccentricity Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Live Music
Caribou @ Cabaret Voltaire, 20 Feb
The extraordinary ambition of Niobe will keep fans returning to Andorra in the long-term. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Live Music
Metal Up Your Ass - February, 2008
A bonanza of big-time headliners, underground touring bands and local stalwarts Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Interviews
The Mountain Goats
Prolific singer songwriter John Darnielle may be indie music's best kept secret, winning acolytes and accolades as half of The Mountain Goats. But with a new album and a globe spanning tour, 2008 could be their biggest year yet. Hamza K caught up with him in Glasgow to discuss horror movies, cheap thrills and the never-ending urge to write
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Playlists
A Muso's Top 10: Aesop Rock
Rapper, producer and multi-instrumentalist Ian Bavitz checks in from the midst of a busy touring schedule to tell us what the weather and the soundtrack is like on Planet Aesop this month... Read more »| 05 Feb 2008