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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Live MusicFoals @ QMU
Even if the initial shock of their sound is radical, it's not deviating much from song to song Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Live MusicEels @ Royal Concert Hall, 28 Feb
A rare, retrospective moment for E, and a pertinent reminder of his oblique genius Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
Live MusicThe Editors @ Carling Academy
The set plays out like their greatest, great hits, and it's that consistent quality which should surely outshine the far casting shadow of their influences Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Dead Meadow @ King Tut's
As Dead Meadow begin their set, one thing is abundantly clear: drummer Stephen McCarty has cultivated a really boss moustache Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Amplifico @ Club Ego
There's a pervading feeling that the 'Fico's time might finally have come Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
ReviewsWildbirds & Peacedrums - Heartcore
A classic example of why, sometimes, less is so much more Read more »| 01 Apr 2008
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Vincent Vincent And The Villains - Gospel Bombs
A refreshingly well-groomed antithesis to the dishevelled indieness dominating the UK soundscape
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Trouble Over Tokyo - Pyramides
By passing up the opportunity to whine, he may just have given his genre another string to its bow Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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The Ike Reilly Assassination - Junkie Faithful/Sparkle In The Finish
For a man often compared to the likes of Beck and Eels, this double album is distinctly disappointing Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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The Draytones - Up In My Head
When all the pieces work, The Draytones show flashes of brilliance Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Temposhark - The Invisible Line
The choruses are almost exclusively repeated variations of the same line, acting like rapid aging machines which render the songs ancient with a quickness Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
If we apply the 'if you leave wine, will it become vintage or vinegar' dichotomy here, this is virtually undrinkable Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Son Lux - At war with walls and mazes
Ryan Lott could be singing the phone book and it'd sound pained Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Singer - Unhistories
A lethargic but strangely engaging spaced-out rock/jazz hybrid Read more »| 01 Apr 2008 -
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Puerto Muerto - I Was a Swallow
The thrust of the record is subtly morbid, sexually charged alt-country Read more »| 01 Apr 2008