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 MusicMystery Jets @ QMU, 3 May
lures the listener in like the proverbial cheese in a mouse trap Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live MusicLightning Bolt @ Grand Ole Opry
like sperm flocking to an egg Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Playlists
The Easy Gramophone - June
5 songs you can legally download and listen to - free Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
InterviewsCamera Obscura - Ready To Be Heartbroken
"Our fans are dedicated and faithful. They're not 'one night stand' fans. 'I'm going to love you 'till the dying day.' That sort of fan." Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
InterviewsRobin Guthrie - Applying the Lumiere
I get a kick out of watching the world drifting by the window and just letting ideas come to me Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Interviews
Copy Haho - Indie A Go Go!
"It's hard to describe how exactly we sound, you could just say we're a kind of guitar-based indie band with melodic bits. Y'know, kind of indie." Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Live Music
T-Break Heat 2 @ The Liquid Room, 8 May
Imagine you're getting married and every close relative is in a band, so you're obligated to let them all play, despite some resembling musicians and some un... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Opinion
All the best, Arthur Lee
Do you realise? That one day all your musical heroes must die? These men who make immortal music are not themselves immortal Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Reviews
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - You Are What You Love
Behind the sweetness lurks a cynical witticism Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live Music
Belle & Sebastian and Friends @ The Tramway, 30 Apr
Two men entreating even the twee-est kids to catch the flow and let their hearts skip a beat Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Reviews
Tool – 10,000 Days
all the key elements are here and the machine is well oiled Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live Music
Kool Keith @ The Bongo Club
Making the worn out and half-cut faithful feel something like the patients who hang around in vain on Dr Octagon's Waiting List, Kool Keith finally hauls his... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live Music
Battles @ The Venue, 28 Apr
It's a precious thing to witness such a performance, and even rarer to come away thinking that the band in question are capable of even greater things Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live Music
Found & How To Swim @ Cabaret Voltaire
Found occupy the growing space between electronic music and the folk rock tradition Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Live Music
Silver Jews and Alasdair Roberts @ The Bongo Club
a poet who has learned the joy of a wall of amplifiers Read more »| 15 Jun 2006