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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ReviewsEnvy – Recitation
Recitation is an apt title for Japanese hardcore band Envy’s fifth long player, invoking the scene of a dramatic storyteller with an audience in the pa... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsManic Street Preachers – Postcards From A Young Man
This is, according to Nicky Wire, the Manics’ “last chance to attempt to communicate on a mass level” – a peculiar statement, conside... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen – September 2010
This month we plonk our old-school ghetto-blaster in front of a napping Steve Mason. It took the sound of the September singles to rouse him from his torpor Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Castanets - Texas Rose, the Thaw and the Beasts
Fifth album from experimental folk soloist Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsOf Montreal – False Priest
Credit the presence of Jon Brion (Kanye West) or cameos by pop singers, but False Priest is easily Of Montreal's most accessible album since 2004's Satanic P... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsSwans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Having previously shelved his seminal post-punk band back in 1997, Young God Records founder Michael Gira has continued to write under his Angels of Light mo... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010
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Interviews
Mogwai: All the Right Moves
Presenting Mogwai's first full-length audio and televisual document of their intoxicating live show all at once, Stuart Braithwaite talks us through the creation of Special Moves and Burning Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Videos
The Skinny Sessions: Astral Planes
Exclusive live sessions from T in the Park 2010, only at The Skinny and Radio Magnetic Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
The Vaselines: Sex With An X, Track-By-Track
Although formed in the mid 80s, The Vaselines would become a heavyweight cult concern in the decades to follow. Founders Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee were a romantic item, and when they split, so did the band. Twenty years on, they're back with a new album, the playfully titled Sex With An X. Here Eugene (with suitably cheeky interjections from Frances) talks us through the it Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Laki Mera – Clutter EP
Trip-hop may be playing its last down-tempo notes before finally kicking the bucket, but its spirit will live on in the sound of Laki Mera. The panor... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – September 2010
September's gig schedule is completely stacked, and NYC posse Cymbals Eat Guitars will set the bar high at Glasgow Stereo on 4 Sep. With a fantastic debut un... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Tricky - Mixed Race
Like various associates in the mid-90s trip-hop scene, Tricky has struggled to develop his style beyond his first couple of great albums. Now onto his ninth,... Read more »| 01 Sep 2010 -
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Interpol – Interpol
For a band that sounds as though it’s been dredged from the murkiest depths of the Hudson River, the imperially dark Interpol have had surprising comme... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody – I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years
Having started his career back in ’84 with Shake Appeal – who would ultimately morph in to UK ‘shoegrunge’ stalwarts Swervedriver &nd... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
The Vaselines – Sex With An X
It’s not a record-breaker, but a twenty-year gap between albums warrants comment; to put it in context, a wall segmented Berlin last time The Vaselines... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010