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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ReviewsGruff Rhys – Hotel Shampoo
A career of over fifteen years recording music has provided irrefutable evidence of one thing – Gruff Rhys knows his way around a tune, and Hotel Shamp... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
ReviewsThe Streets – Computers and Blues
The Streets’ Mike Skinner has been on a downer ever since releasing Original Pirate Material in 2002, but then no-one bothered. His melancholic parable... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
ReviewsZoey Van Goey – Propeller Versus Wings
Expanded to a four-piece since debut The Cage Was Unlocked All Along, Zoey Van Goey’s launch Propeller Versus Wings with the atypically serious Mountai... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
ReviewsConquering Animal Sound – Kammerspiel
The sight of woodland shards in the artwork, and the sound of Maschine trickling into life via stuttering bells, syncopated handclaps and double-tracked voca... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Live
Any discussion of Tom Tom Club is inevitably presaged by acknowledging that the band were essentially a side-project of Talking Heads, having been formed dur... Read more »| 25 Jan 2011 -
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Celtic Connections: Trembling Bells @ Òran Mór, 21 Jan
“We’re going to start with an a cappella number... so if everyone could...” As Trembling Bells’ Alex Nielson silently mouths “s... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011
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The Tall Ships – On Tariffs and Discovery
The Tall Ships sophomore album sees the US three-piece continue to hone their indie-art-rock compositions with explorative arrangements and understated produ... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
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Celtic Connections: Ani DiFranco @ O2 ABC, 20 Jan
Folk revivalist Jim Moray proves a wonderfully apt choice for kicking off this evening, his mostly traditional compositions tending towards the darker side o... Read more »| 24 Jan 2011 -
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Celtic Connections: Alasdair Roberts and Muntu Valdo @ Tron Theatre, 19 Jan
Pairing Cameroonian sawa-blues with traditional Scottish folk, Celtic Connections again takes roots music and unearths its global interlinks. Muntu Valdo&rsq... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Celtic Connections: The Walkmen @ Òran Mór, 19 Jan
Even if you are only lucky enough to catch five minutes of Laki Mera’s set, it’s still plenty of time to know that you’re watching somethin... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Celtic Connections: Giant Sand @ ABC2, 15 Jan
For a band formed in 1985, Howe Gelb’s Giant Sand manage to sound fresher and more unique tonight than most of the acts who have come and gone like the... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Emily Jane White – Ode To Sentience
Releasing her third album in as many years, Californian Emily Jane White’s prolific nature is matched only by her strict adherence to the purist folk c... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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Chapel Club – Palace
On their debut, London-based five-piece Chapel Club offer up a remarkably accomplished take on the kind of stadium rock-meets-Joy Division sound familiar to ... Read more »| 21 Jan 2011 -
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The Tenebrous Liar – Run Run Run
Anyone who remembers with faint disappointment when the White Stripes and their ilk were the ‘saviours of rock and roll’ would do well to have a ... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011 -
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James Blake – James Blake
Having wowed audiences last year with a trio of acclaimed EPs, here Londoner James Blake expands his imaginative soul hybrid over eleven full tracks, and lau... Read more »| 20 Jan 2011