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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ReviewsIsobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Hawk
As unlikely a pairing as they are, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan are onto their third outing together; if it doesn’t add up on paper it sure as hell... Read more »| 25 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsFat Freddy's Drop – Live at Roundhouse
As someone who visited Aotearoa this year, I can tell you that the Kiwis go mental for FFD: the reggae/roots scene is huge down there, perhaps as it seems to... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Steve Mason @ The Liquid Room 18 Aug
A newly reopened Liquid Room tonight plays host to one of its favourite sons, and as reunions go, this would take some beating for emotional resonance. Scene... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
Live MusicBeirut @ HMV Picture House, 22 Aug
“I fuckin’ love you Zach!” shouts one punter near the end of Beirut’s stunning performance tonight. “Ah luv yi too!” resp... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
VideosThe Skinny Sessions: The Seventeenth Century
Following the success of our stint at the T in the Park kitchen in 2009, this summer The Skinny joined forces with Radio Magnetic to capture a unique series ... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
ReviewsFreelance Whales – Weathervanes
On first listen, this debut album from recently formed Queens quintent Freelance Whales sounds a lot like a toned-down version of Sufjan Stevens' Illinois, w... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010
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Live Music
The Besnard Lakes @ Sneaky Pete's, 17 Aug
It’s been three years since Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. Ample time for a trio of young lads known as Heart Beats (****) to graduate from Th... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Hallogallo 2010 @ HMV Picture House, 17 Aug
Tonight I figure out what's so special about the Neu! beat: it's the one groove that bypasses the hips altogether. Go to any club night and you'll shake your... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Two Door Cinema Club @ Òran Mór, 17 Sep
The only band from Northern Ireland to make the longlist for BBC's Sound of 2010, Bangor outfit Two Door Cinema Club comprise Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird and ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan @ O2 ABC, 8 Sep
There has always been something mildly perverse when it comes to the sight of the innocently framed Isobel Campbell sitting side by side with the vag... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
News
Joanna Newsom @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 20 Sep
Having tempered her pixy-toned tendencies for this year’s epically ambitious, masterfully executed third album, Have One on Me, Joanna Newsom has remov... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Zola Jesus – Stridulum II
These are dark days we live in right enough – what with cuts, crashes, crises and the return of Skunk Anansie – but do we really have to add a Zo... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
Live Music
The New Pornographers @ Òran Mór, 7 Sep
The other Canadian supergroup – which is in no way to say inferior, just less omnipresent – The New Pornographers’s fifth album Tog... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
Miyagi – Electrosaurus
Christening your second album Electrosaurus and adorning the cover with axe-wielding thunder-lizards and a drumming diplodocus is undoubtedly awesome... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
Reviews
The Zephyrs – Fool of Regrets
By the time most bands make it to five albums they’ve usually gone one of two ways: either they’re tackling their evolving musical tastes with il... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010