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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Reviews
The Black Keys - Your Touch
The baddest and best it's sounded since Cream Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Reviews
RedCarsGoFaster - 24 Passes / House of Flies
24 Passes is never far away from Joy Division's Glass, jazzed up with a little rock-disco. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsJohann Johannsson - The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
Delightful, and a perfect example of fusing classical music with avant-electronics.
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ReviewsThe Drones - Gala Mill
Good haunting dust bowl rock for those days spent sitting on a log swigging whiskey and drinking beans out of the can.
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ReviewsThe Aquarium - The Aquarium
It's nice to hear a band who are arty without being po-faced about it.
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Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun
Swelling, never ending guitar crescendos and trance inducing war drums. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
Every party needs a hallucinatory hippy album to finish things off mellow, and Dead Meadow might be just the come-down. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Cortez - Too Orangey For Crows
Though perhaps not earth-shifting, 'Too Orangey For Crows' is too good for anonymity. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided
All that's missing is a poetic ramble about Texas radio and the big beat. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsMogwai - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait OST
On record it sounds no less haunting Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
ReviewsSubtle - The Mercury Craze
A pulsating chrome-coated beat ushers fictional hiphop protagonist Hour Hero Yes through the door of this, the latest abstract from Subtle's modern day 'Tomm... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Live Music
New Order @ Carling Academy
Does this mean New Order can never play a bad gig? Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Live Music
Lily Allen @ ABC, 23 Oct
Tamed and far more sober Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Live Music
The View @ Barfly, 22 Oct
With songs of youthful aggravation and frustration, The View, in accordance with the verdict of their loyal band of Dundonian fans, are truly on fire. One c... Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Interviews
15 Minutes With: Conrad Keely
"It's not like we're CNN.com..." - Conrad Keely Read more »| 12 Nov 2006