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
The View - Which Bitch?
It doesn't bode well for the second View album from the outset, arse-clenchingly awful title apart. Supermarket-indie bands are finding it difficult ... Read more »| 28 Jan 2009 -
Live Music
Women @ Captain's Rest, 14 Feb
Women were last in Captain's Rest playing second fiddle to producer/mentor/occasional member Chad VanGaalen, whose melodic warmth outshone Women’s inte... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Interviews
Asobi Seksu: Not Lost in Translation
On the verge of his band's third LP hitting the shops, Asobi Seksu's James Hanna tells Nick Mitchell about its inception Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Festivals
Celtic Connections: The Burns Unit @ ABC, 16 Jan
Few bands making their official debut could hope for a rapt full-house in the cavernous ABC, but The Burns Unit aren’t some wet-behind-the-ears whipper... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Mike Bones - A Fool For Everyone
Mike Bones, New York guitarist with Soldiers of Fortune and Cass McCombs, releases his second solo album on Vice Records. Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Mitchell Museum - Warning Bells
According to Michel Foucault, medieval folk would deal with their mentally ill by chucking them on a 'ship of fools' and letting them set sail together into ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009
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Interviews
Le Reno Amps @ The Mill, 4 Feb
As they prepare to strut their stuff at February's Mill, Finbarr Bermingham caught up with Le Reno Amps henchmen Maple and Nero to discover that, sometimes, the simpler things in life are better Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Enfant Bastard - The Best of Enfant Bastard
Everyone needs a bit of Enfant Bastard in their lives. Artists like Ariel Pink have managed to push lo-fi to its creative limits, but Enfant Bastard, with so... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Viva Stereo - Roar Lion Roar
Fence Collective mainstays Viva Stereo are stretched to the limits by personal circumstances: with members scattered from Aberdeen to Leicester, it's a wonde... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Live Music
Tricky @ The Arches, 19 Feb
Emerging amidst the lads-and-lager brawl of mid-nineties Britpop, Tricky’s multifarious debut, Maxinquaye, flew in the face of the simplified collectiv... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
The King Blues - Save The World, Get The Girl
Jonny ‘Itch’ Fox is not without talent. Save The World, Get The Girl portrays him as a bomb disposal expert, a Shaolin master, and a caped crusad... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Daniel Merriweather feat. Wale - Change
Ronson's right-hand man fails to deliver on lacklustre debut. Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Live Music
Imelda May @ The Voodoo Rooms, 17 Feb
Winner of “Best Music Pub” award in 2008, the Voodoo Rooms has rapidly earned a reputation for hosting first-class gigs. Its dark, would-be smoky... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Anonymous Tip - Not Your Orthodox
Twickenham punks Anonymous Tip have something to tell all you square, naïve fools. While you live your clueless lives as slaves to the system, they see ... Read more »| 27 Jan 2009 -
Reviews
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Unless you've only recently been unearthed, you’re already well acquainted with Coldplay. But the blunt chances are that Life in Technicolor II won&rsq... Read more »| 26 Jan 2009