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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InterviewsGive The Balky Mule What He Wants
Life has presented Sam Jones with some very obscure experiences. David McNamara finds out why globe trotting and burnt down venues cannot slow the progress of The Balky Mule Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
ReviewsJohn Paul Keith & The One Four Fives - Spills and Thrills
John Paul Keith & The One Four Fives are a psychedelic garage-rock band masquerading as Memphis country-blues. Despite their own insistence that they're ... Read more »| 05 Jun 2009 -
ReviewsSunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
Sunset Rubdown’s latest LP is pertinently inscribed. The indie-rock psalms of Spencer Krug have long rested on a mythological mantel, but the Montreal ... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
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Golden Silvers - Arrows of Eros
With the likes of MGMT, Late of the Pier and countless others mining '80s synth-pop sounds, it was only a matter of time before a group pursued that period&r... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
ReviewsWe Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
We Were Promised Jetpacks couldn’t have timed it better. In the post-breakthrough hiatus of Frightened Rabbit and The Twilight Sad, indie aficionados h... Read more »| 04 Jun 2009 -
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Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Okay, this is how EPs should be done. Five songs in fifteen minutes that serve to remind us just what a freakish talent Bradford Cox actually is. As his gorg... Read more »| 03 Jun 2009
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Interviews
The Warlocks: Fevered Dreamers
Before they unleash The Mirror Explodes - their most accomplished album to date - Mark Shukla talks to uncompromising LA outsiders The Warlocks and finds out what keeps them awake at night Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
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Various Artists - Causes 2
Causes 2, the second in Waxploitation Records' charitable series, balances musical quality with worthy causes, making it worth your money for all the right reasons. Read more »| 03 Jun 2009 -
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Withered Hand - You're Not Alone EP
After the rollicking full band sing-along of first EP Religious Songs, this second EP showcases the more reflective side of Withered Hand's Dan Willson, here... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
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Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Sonic Youth's greatest album is always whichever one you heard first - unless that was NYC Ghosts & Flowers (you poor thing). The band's famous experimen... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
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Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
An album ornamented in the existential backdrop of perdition, between Arcadia and Abaddon, The Bachelor veers between notions of armageddic chaos and the tra... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
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James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game
James Blackshaw made his name with his prodigious talent on the twelve-string guitar, but eighth album The Glass Bead Game suggests that dexterous fingerpick... Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Live Music
Akron/Family @ Captain's Rest, 22 May
Freak-folk trio Akron/Family bring their lucky rabbits foot to the Captain's Rest. Read more »| 02 Jun 2009 -
Interviews
Wavves: Surfing the Zeitgeist
Setting the blogosphere ablaze with pure sun-drenched euphoria in recent months, Nathan Williams has endured – rather than enjoyed – an unlikely ... Read more »| 01 Jun 2009 -
Interviews
Frank Zappa: A Mother of Invention
There are many artists who are praised as being ‘ahead of their time’, but in Frank Zappa’s case, you begin to wonder whether the man possessed some kind of time-machine, so eerily prophetic were his musical innovations. These are just a few of the ways in which Zappa was a composer way avant of the garde Read more »| 01 Jun 2009