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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ReviewsThe Hives - Tick Tick Boom
Requires nothing more from you than a pair of ears Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
ReviewsIan Brown - Illegal Attacks
Great tune, shame about the lyrics Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Interviews
Back in a Kate Nash
PQ: Miles Johnson enjoys a cold one with the cockney songstress before she jets off for a few gigs in New York and slingshots back to Scotland for another visit later this month.
PQ: ""Lily is great but I sometimes get tired of talking about the similarities between me and her."" Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Live Music
Clyde 1 Unsigned Showcase @ Oran Mor
It's easy to imagine a real community spirit developing here Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
ReviewsThe Rumble Strips - Girls and Weather
Ultimately more amusing than engaging Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Reviews
Kate Walsh - Tim's House
Fans of Gemma Hayes will rejoice that there is now another wispy singer-songwriter for them to curl up in bed and cry along to Read more »| 08 Oct 2007
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ReviewsBand of Horses - Cease To Begin
The oft overused and trite ""difficult second album syndrome,"" fits like a glove. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Alter Bridge - Rise Today
This song is shit. Vapid, commercial shit. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Air Traffic - No More Running Away
Bound together throughout by wistful piano and an infectious refrain Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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A Whisper in the Noise - Dry Land
The ratio of unremarkable misery to remarkable tenderness is too high Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Opinion
XFM Column - October
I know it's over Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Interviews
Jack of all trades
His songs may be all over the radio right now, but it's taken Jack Peñate years of gigging - and painting and decorating - to get where he is today, as he explains to Nick Mitchell.
""People want tunes now, but they also don't want it to be bullshit. They're not interested in fakeness and people looking like perfect pop stars.""
Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Reviews
Athlete - Hurricane
The best music can blow you away, but Hurricane barely musters a breeze. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Cherry Ghost - 4AM
Lyrics about washing your hair and getting the last bus home aren't going to excite anyone Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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Indigo Moss - Nature of this Town
Positively archaic, well put together, but utterly baffling Read more »| 08 Oct 2007