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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ReviewsIain Campbell – ABSOLUTELY the best ABBA since ABBA
With numerous high-profile and high-concept multi-media performances and exhibitions now under his belt, the man formerly trading under the moniker +Do-NEIMA... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsThe Phantom Band – The Wants
Following on from last years’ blindsiding debut Checkmate Savage, feral Glaswegian sextet The Phantom Band have wasted precious little time in surfing ... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
ReviewsBelle & Sebastian – Write About Love
If the near-five year wait since The Life Pursuit and last year’s brilliant brace of albums from Camera Obscura and Butcher Boy led you to question Bel... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Warpaint – The Fool
Court martial! On charges of worst band-related misnomer since Mogwai entitled a post-rock album Happy Songs for Happy People. Los Angeles all-lady four-piec... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Playlists
Track-by-track: The Phantom Band's Guide to The Wants
Strap yourself in as robo-folk's finest follow-up last year's inventive opus, Checkmate Savage this month. Track-by-track, The Phantom Band unveil The Wants... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
InterviewsSwans: The Ecstatic
The Phantom Band's Rick Anthony engages Michael Gira, mainstay of recently resurrected New York no wave crusaders Swans and founder of Young God Records Read more »| 28 Sep 2010
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Interviews
Ice Cube: "I never left the game, the game’s trying to leave me"
From his furious beginnings with NWA to a latter-day rebirth as the lord of light family entertainment, this month Ice Cube returns to answer the critics who say Hollywood has diminished his edge Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
InterviewsYeasayer's Chris Keating: "It’s all about not getting bored"
Chris Keating looks back at the success of second album Odd Blood whilst keeping an eye on the band’s glittering future Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
The Inquisition: Warpaint
Jenny Lee Lindberg from all-girl Los Angeles art rock quartet Warpaint gave us riddles when we asked for answers Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
Starter For Eleven: Mudhoney
Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Steve Turner do battle over a quiz that charts the ages of our musical heritage for a glorious haggis supper prize Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
Grinding up the Bad Seeds
It's been debated as to whether or not there is a point to Grinderman. Here, Nick Cave and cohorts lay out the case for the defence Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
The Proposition: Bono is a Chump, But He's Better Than You
Bono really is an irritating little creep isn't he? That's the general consensus right? This is the guy who campaigns for, amongst other things, a higher pol... Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Interviews
Deconstructing: Fever Ray
Karin Dreijer Andersson talks about reinventing the Fever Ray live show, working with her brother and why she decided to go solo Read more »| 28 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Heidi Talbot – The Last Star
Made in Ireland and based in Edinburgh, Heidi Talbot's lilting cadence may be most familiar as a collaborator with Drever, McCusker and Woomble and I... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010 -
Reviews
Roska & Untold - Myth
Omnipotent IDM megalith Hyperdub haven't ringfenced the entire flock of elite UK Funky 12" quite yet – Numbers’ latest offering from me... Read more »| 27 Sep 2010