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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InterviewsIndian Red Lopez: Against The Tide
Getting a dressing down from a pop diva and narrowly avoiding a small-town punch up? These have been just some of the pitfalls that have helped make Aberdeen quintet Indian Red Lopez all the more determined Read more »| 31 May 2011 -
ReviewsThe Dirty Dozen – Fucked Up Takeover
Though a lion on the stage, Fucked Up's Damian ‘Pink Eyes’ Abraham takes to the June singles with the gentle demeanour of a lamb – albeit a lamb with a mild contempt for clean production and a loathing for rhythmic movement Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
Live Music
Live Music Highlights – June 2011
The church of lo-fi psych has seen both its congregation and its clergy swell dramatically over the last couple of years but Julian Lynch and Matt Mondanile ... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
ReviewsThe Disrupters – Generation Retard
It seems only fitting that Norwich’s Disrupters would wait for a Tory government to return before releasing a new album: it’s what punk’s a... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
Live MusicThe Metal Column – June 2011
It’s been a hell of a month, hasn’t it? The world’s number one posh couple finally tied the knot and got off our tellies, our number one ba... Read more »| 30 May 2011 -
Reviews
White Denim – D
White Denim have always seemed better in theory than in practice. Omnivorously squeezing as many diverse influences as possible into every track, the Austini... Read more »| 27 May 2011
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Sons and Daughters – Mirror Mirror
Sons and Daughters’ third full length release sees the Glasgow four-piece abandon the glitz of 2008’s This Gift, and step back into a familiar da... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
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O'Death – Outside
Initially, O’Death’s third full-length on City Slang comes across as an uncharacteristically conventional release for the label. The New York qui... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
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Secret Cities – Strange Hearts
Always Friends; Ice Cream Scene; The Park – just reading the names of the first three tracks of Secret Cities’ second album might cause seizures ... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
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King Post Kitsch – The Party's Over
“You’ve gone and found yourself a friend,” sings Charlie Ward aka King Post Kitsch on the Rhodes-driven Closing Time, and if friendship is ... Read more »| 27 May 2011 -
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Joseph Arthur – The Graduation Ceremony
Returning with his first solo offering since the release of 2006’s Nuclear Daydream, Ohio-based raconteur Joseph Arthur’s sixth studio album char... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
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Indian Red Lopez – Empty Your Lungs and Breathe
Taking the polar opposite approach to the movie Sleepers (7.4 on IMDB! - ed) from which they borrowed their name, Aberdeen's Indian Red Lopez have delivered ... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
Interviews
Interview: Ladytron's Helen Marnie
With their fifth album on the neon horizon, Ladytron show no signs of putting their feet up. Singer Helen Marnie takes time out to talk "electro music with heart” Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
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Eddie Vedder – Ukulele Songs
Fronting grunge survivors Pearl Jam for over two decades has earned Eddie Vedder the right to indulge the odd whim; that solo sophomore release Ukulele Songs... Read more »| 26 May 2011 -
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The Travelling Band – Screaming Is Something
Manchester’s The Travelling Band have horizons both narrow and broad: musically, they’re content to operate within parameters so well-est... Read more »| 26 May 2011