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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PlaylistsGreg Werckman presents 'The Ipecast'
We asked Ipecac Records' esteemed boss if he'd sequence a compilation of highlights that represented the influential label's past and present. Mr Werckman kindly obliged; complete with liner notes that offer a personal insight, here it is in one free downloadable bundle for you dear Skinny reader Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
Mike Patton – The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Featuring music created for the film (and inspired by the book) of the same name, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is being touted as a "sonic departure" for Mi... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Ugly Duckling @ King Tut's, 28 October
Ugly Duckling take the stage after rousing support slots from local hip-hop heroes, beatboxer Bigg Taj, a stalwart of the local scene, and Hector Bizerk. Taj... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
ReviewsAne Brun – It All Starts With One
A couple of years ago, a Cyndi Lauper cover for a Sky HD ad looked like it just might break the stalemate scenario whereby Norwegian-born, Sweden-residing An... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
ReviewsM+A – things.yes
The ‘M’ of ‘M+A’ is Michele Ducci, the ‘A’ is Alessondro Degli Angioli, but the ‘plus’ affixing them is less ... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011 -
ReviewsCaptain Quentin – Instrumental Jet Set
It’s hard to get a handle on Captain Quentin’s eclectic sound; maybe it’s a cultural disconnect (the band hails from Italy), or maybe the... Read more »| 31 Oct 2011
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ReviewsWooden Wand and the Briarwood Virgins – Briarwood
James Jackson Toth, the phenomenally-prolific songwriter oft-known as Wooden Wand, recorded Briarwood in Alabama, and boy, does it show. This is Toth’s... Read more »| 28 Oct 2011 -
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Portugal. The Man – In the Mountain, In the Cloud
In the Mountain, In the Cloud is Portugal. The Man’s sixth album in six years (seventh if you count acoustic miniature Majestic Majesty), and though th... Read more »| 28 Oct 2011 -
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The Miserable Rich – Miss You In the Days
That the Miserable Rich have an original sound is apparent from the first few sea-shanty notes of Laid Up In Lavender. Third album, Miss You In The Days, ... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – November 2011
To Mexicans, November is a time to honour the departed. For Accident & Emergency workers, it’s a time to stifle a giggle as another hapless chap is... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
Johnny Foreigner – Johnny Foreigner Vs. Everything
With each album, Johnny Foreigner seem to find it harder and harder to relinquish material: their thirteen-track debut seemed the optimum length for such hig... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
The Fall – Ersatz G.B.
Having created two essential Fall albums in recent times (last year's Your Future Our Clutter and 2008's Imperial Wax Solvent), Mark E Smith's current l... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – November 2011
King Creosote & Kid Canaveral play a slew of dates this month in support of their forthcoming collaborative 7" single. Perky indie-pop vibes and top-draw... Read more »| 27 Oct 2011 -
Reviews
Magazine – No Thyself
Boasting a résumé which includes founding seminal punk icons The Buzzcocks before dropping out to lead the post-punk forays of cult heroes Maga... Read more »| 26 Oct 2011 -
Live Music
Envy @ Stereo, 24 October
Tonight, Envy are awesome in the truest sense of the word. Their set isn’t exactly varied, but it is consistently soul-stirring: guitars start out icy ... Read more »| 26 Oct 2011