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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ReviewsBear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Just as ‘Hollywood’ no longer refers solely to a geographical place but an idea or style, ‘Brooklyn’, in music, has become a state of... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
ReviewsChrome Hoof – Crush Depth
‘Experimental orchestra’ Chrome Hoof seem to get weirder and more ambitious with each release. On Crush Depth the early electronic influences are... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
ReviewsBronto Skylift – The White Crow
They say a band is only as good as its drummer, and with that in mind Bronto Skylift could be an earth-shattering proposition. Technical proficiency is somet... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
ReviewsCrystal Castles Debut Album Review
There are two faces to Ontario’s Crystal Castles, both physically and musically. Comprised of show-stealing frontwoman Alice Glass and the seemingly re... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders - Red Light Fever
While Foo Fighters have settled into the complacent middle-age of stadium rock, drummer Taylor Hawkins isn’t going down without a fight. Most of the so... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Appaloosa - Savana
Appaloosa peddle some rather tasty instrumental funk-rock. And, just to clarify, that’s genuine, butt-shaking beauties, rather than the kind of white-g... Read more »| 25 May 2010
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Reviews
Dan Sartain - Lives
In these superficial times, spending a career dressed top to tail in rockabilly garb singles anyone out as a little strange. But rather than masquerading as ... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
Live Music
The Brian Jonestown Massacre @ O2 ABC, 18 May
Newcombe and his band dispatch the hits with relentless purpose Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
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Dapayk Solo – Decade One (2000-2010)
The first part of this two-disc retrospective of Dapayk Solo is subtitled ‘For Headphones, Couches and Cars’, and accordingly contains a selectio... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
Live Music
Dinosaur Jr / Built to Spill @ O2 ABC, 13 May
As double-headers go, seeing slacker rock brethren Built to Spill and Dinosaur Jr share a bill feels well-matched like a Hansel vs Zoolander walk-off. Tonigh... Read more »| 21 May 2010 -
Reviews
Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
With 18 studio albums, half a dozen EPs, seven live albums and literally scores of other odds and ends scattered across the musical landscape, for Melvins th... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Live MusicHole @ O2 Academy, Glasgow, 3 May
From America’s Sweetheart to Nobody's Daughter, Courtney Love shouldn’t need Billy Corgan’s advice to know that partial band reformations n... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
Live Music
Wolf Parade @ Òran Mór, 19 May
“Where’s Spencer?” shouts a hil-arious (or possibly just confused) member of the crowd. “Er, he’s there” deadpans Dan Boe... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
News
T-Break 2010 Line Up Announced
T in the Park may have morphed into a monolith on the festival circuit over the past sixteen years, however the folks behind the curtain have never forgotten... Read more »| 20 May 2010 -
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Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle
Eugene Hutz and his band of merry men and women return with this Rick Rubin produced, Brazilian influenced collection of gypsy-punk anthems. Pala Tute sets t... Read more »| 20 May 2010