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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ReviewsParts & Labor – Receivers
Brooklyn’s monopoly on harbouring some of the finest contemporary bands on the planet continues with this compelling curveball from noise-punk combo Pa... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
Live Musicballboy @ The Mill
They seem to have been about forever, but November sees local indie favourites ballboy make their debut at The Mill with a much anticipated double header. Songwriter in chief Gordon McIntyre spoke to Finbarr Bermingham about recent developments in ballboy's world. Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
PlaylistsA Muso’s Top 10: Bonehead
Since his departure from Oasis at the turn of the millennium, the whereabouts of Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs have remained a mystery – ‘somewhere in ... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
InterviewsDeath Cab Have the Facts and They're Voting: Change
The USA is in its biggest economic crisis in years. Hurricanes are literally tearing the country's infrastructure apart. The upcoming election is the most pivotal in years. Oh, and there's a war going on? Finbarr Bermingham finds Death Cab For Cutie's Chris Walla with a head full of steam Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
ReviewsOptimo - Sleepwalk
Don't make the mistake of putting Optimo's new mix CD on for a gym visit or before a night out - it'll slow your treadmill to a halt or stunt the momentum of... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008 -
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Red Light Company - Scheme Eugene
Red Light Company prepare for their forthcoming tour with the release of this second single. A slab of earthshaking indie-rock, Scheme Eugene boasts twinkly ... Read more »| 30 Oct 2008
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Reviews
Broken Records - Lies
Kurt Cobain once stated that the only two places he would ever live would be Seattle or Edinburgh, a comment that aptly summed up a transatlantic love affair... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Interviews
Jack & Kyle: "The D Will Never Die!"
"It’s important to me that music be glorious. And it’s important to me that whatever we do next be glorious. But will it be a tour? Will it be a movie? Will it be a TV show? Or will it just be me and Kyle talking to you? I don’t know. One thing’s for sure, it shall be glorious." - Jack Black Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Interviews
These Arms Are Snakes: Apocalypse? No!
Office jobs? Pension plans? Breaking bands? These Arms Are Snakes crave not these things, as Brian Cook tells Ryan Drever. Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin
Desert dwelling hippies return for another album of perfectly pedestrian goodness Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
Goldfrapp @ The Corn Exchange, 5 Nov
Following her early days singing on Orbital and Tricky records, Alison Goldfrapp hit the big time with 2006’s Supernature, its glammy electro perfectly captu... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Live Music
My Vitriol @ Stereo, 19 Nov
High on the “whatever happened to…?” list of the past five years is My Vitriol, now showing up at Stereo in Glasgow. After a highly succe... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
Reviews
Little Joy - Little Joy
Surely nobody was thinking of That's The Story Of My Life and After Hours when The Strokes and The Velvet Underground were being routinely compared back at t... Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Pascal Comelade - The No Dancing
One man's whimsical, pedestrian, musical ruminations Read more »| 29 Oct 2008 -
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Y’All Is Fantasy Island – No Ceremony
YiFi’s potent mixture of Celtic Americana is sprawled out on the porch, moonshine in hand Read more »| 29 Oct 2008