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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ReviewsEl-P – Cancer4Cure
It's been five years since El-P's I'll Sleep When You're Dead. There's not much point prefixing anything the rapper/producer behind the Definitive Jux l... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Interviews
The Afghan Whigs: "We stayed true to ourselves; always walked our own line"
As the reunited Afghan Whigs prepare to take the stage for the first time in 13 years, a reflective Greg Dulli offers an album by album guide to the inimitable soul rockers’ catalogue. Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Garbage – Not Your Kind of People
Garbage have never been a band of much substance but at their peak they produced some brilliantly damaged pop music. Not Your Kind of People conten... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Marilyn Manson – Born Villain
Marilyn Manson was a force to be reckoned with back in the 1990s, but despite being hailed as a ‘comeback’ album by Manson himself, Born Vil... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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French Wives – Dreams of the Inbetween
Glasgow five-piece French Wives describe Dreams of the Inbetween as “finally sounding how we always wanted to sound.” It’s how we want the... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
ReviewsSquarepusher – Ufabulum
“As much as Warp would love to nail me down to a plan, it’s not the way I do it... that’s why my career is such a mess,” said Tom Jen... Read more »| 01 May 2012
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Beach House – Bloom
It’s starting to feel like Beach House’s ‘time.’ 2010’s Teen Dream saw the Baltimore duo begin to emerge from under the shadow ... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Damon Albarn – Dr Dee
Damon Albarn's Dr Dee began life as an opera, debuting at the Manchester International Festival last year. As an album, the lack of visual material does hi... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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BONG – Mana-Yood-Sushai
Composed of two lengthy, texturally linked pieces, BONG's latest – the orientally-flavoured Mana-Yood-Sushai – is played out as an enchantingly ... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
ReviewsSlugabed – Time Team
Welding a playful axe to electronic music of the past, the young and rising star of Slugabed, aka Gregory Feldwick, has revealed a penchant for dressing up... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Nick Waterhouse – Time's All Gone
Although only 25, San Francisco’s Nick Waterhouse excavates the roots of American popular music with an unnervingly obsessive attention to detail. In... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Festivals
Stag & Dagger 2012
Some say there's a dearth of good gigs at home as festival season approaches, Stag & Dagger thinks differently Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
InterviewsFrench Wives: The Inbetweeners
Fifteen months in the making, French Wives release their debut Dream of the Inbetween later this month. “I’m sure the thought’s crossed all our minds already,” ponders frontman Stuart Dougan. “‘What if people don’t like it…?’” Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
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Richard Hawley – Standing At The Sky's Edge
Cave dwellers! One-time Pulp and Longpigs guitarist Richard Hawley found solo success in the mid-noughties by writing melodic baroque pop that perfectly su... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Reviews
One Little Plane – Into the Trees
The second LP from One Little Plane, aka Chicago singer-songwriter Kathryn Bint, is a collection of drowsy, backwoods folk/Americana, underpinned by gentle... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012