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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ReviewsGreen Peppers - Adventures in the Slipstream
An album safe to cosy up to, if not to entirely enliven the spirits Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsLykke Li - Breaking It Up
Breaking It Up is essentially an incredibly silly pop song done very well. At the core is a soft kick-drum embellished with handclaps and Lykke Li's velvet-... Read more »| 13 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Nouvelle Vague @ The Liquid Room, 8 Aug
Oozing Gallic charm as they work their way through their second night of sexy Bossa Nova'd 1980s hits Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Earlimart - Hymn and Her
Returning with their sixth album, Earlimart continue to craft Death Cab-lite songs heavy on oh-so-sincere soporific sensitivity but light on anything with th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Live MusicDrive-By Truckers @ The Liquid Room, 6 Aug
The Truckers play up to their slack-jawed stereotype, but there's much more to this lot than the typecast Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
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Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
Winds its way through a faintly Slavic wilderness, trailing alluring poetry behind Read more »| 12 Aug 2008
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Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
‘Soundtrack’, it seems, is the operative word for this second album from antipodean electro-garage rockers Pivot. Opening duo In The Blood and th... Read more »| 12 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Shout Out Louds @ Cabaret Voltaire, 7 Aug
The sort of harmless, sugary indie-pop that American film and TV studios dribble over Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
The Icarus Line @ King Tut's, 6 Aug
The Icarus Line look as though they could still take on the world, the question is whether they really want to Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
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Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea
Whitney's shrill squealing does the otherwise fine instrumentation on this debut album from Jaguar Love absolutely no favours Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Paul Haig @ Cabaret Voltaire, 4 Aug
An enjoyable hometown gig for Haig, even if nearly all the city stayed at home Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
ReviewsMichael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers
The world needs activists like Franti Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
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Local H - Twelve Angry Months
A year of post-break-up recriminations and misery via the medium of some fairly MOR rock music Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
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Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
After seeing this band perform, I came into this review with a bit of bias: The band takes the stage in matching vintage-store garb (think the look of Sufjan... Read more »| 11 Aug 2008 -
Live Music
Paul Kelly @ The Spiegeltent, 5 Aug
The mid-section of Kelly's A-Z assault on his back catalogue sends everyone home happy Read more »| 11 Aug 2008