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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InterviewsA Silver Mt. Zion: Hi, How Are You, Efrim Menuck?
Paul Mitchell's clearly freestyling as he gives the Montreal based lynchpin of A Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed You! Black Emperor a bell to ask... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
InterviewsAutechre: Dancers in the Dark
With leotards on standby, The Skinny prepped itself for a deep and meaningful with Autechre's Sean Booth, and was pleasantly surprised by the plain speaking Mancunian's willingness to chat about his opinions on music, MySpace and getting smoked out with his mates. Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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WHY? - The Lexical Contortionist
Why?'s Yoni Wolf is a master of the abstract image. Creating a world where sex acts occur in German sports facilities and Bar Mitzvahs, and sensory organs catch alight and are removed by house pets, Matt Gollock stumbles his way through the convoluted pathways of Mr Wolf's psyche Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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Tuning Into The Dials
I used to think there was a line in the sand, signed and unsigned, but it's just not like that now - Joe Hendry Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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Meshuggah: Destroy, Erase, Improve
Tech metal, math metal, call it what you will. Fact is, the ill rhythms of this Swedish quintet have influenced too many of the great bastions of modern metal to mention. Tomas Haake tells Jamie Borthwick why Meshuggah are still the underdogs Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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New Blood: Take A Worm For A Walk Week
Making kids cry is the name of the game as Jamie Borthwick talks jockstraps with one of Glasgow's finest up-and-coming bands, one of our picks for 2008 Read more »| 06 Mar 2008
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InterviewsFoals Let Off Some Steam
Hyped to the hilt and on the fast track to becoming as ubiquitous as chips, Foals are quickly becoming one of the country's hottest and most divisive new bands. With the imminent release of debut LP Antidotes, Billy Hamilton sat shower-side with frontman Yannis to chat about all things 'industry' over a palate-whetting glass of Campari... Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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Youthmovies: "Definitely not Enya"
Hold up, the silly genre name game is back! This month Finbarr Bermingham catches up with Foals alum Andrew Mears of rising 'hop prog emo jazz' stars in the making Youthmovies to find out whether the "band's band" are ready to step out of the shadows Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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It's all ch-ch-change for Stephen Malkmus
Influential indie rock titans Pavement might have dissolved a few years back, but this month marks the return of their illustrious frontman. Hamza K tracked down rock star in hiding Stephen Malkmus to talk about the Jicks, 'ze Germans' and the trouble with bad book titles Read more »| 06 Mar 2008 -
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Parka
Neal Parsons pulls up a stool beside the Glaswegian quartet as they stop off for a swift pint at Tut's before they descend on the rest of the UK, one city at a time Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
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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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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 -
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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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Life to Black Francis
At times he has been Frank Black, at others, Black Francis. However, when Darren Carle patches in a call to the erstwhile Pixies frontman at his home in Eugene, Oregon, he is simply Charles Thompson, dutiful husband and father of four
""I can't give the world the Pixies but I'll give them Black Francis, whatever that symbolises. I'm trying to just not fight it."" Read more »| 05 Feb 2008