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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ReviewsAlias – Fever Dream
Once synonymous with experimental hip-hop, Anticon has mostly evolved into a reliable fountain of summery approximations of sublime and ethereal electronica ... Read more »| 02 Aug 2011 -
ReviewsAstrid Williamson – Pulse
Judging from the level of input he's credited with, Pulse may be more equitably attributed to ‘Leo Abraham and Astrid Williamson’; the former&rsq... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
ReviewsStephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Mirror Traffic
Stephen Malkmus’ solo career began promisingly, with 2001’s tune-packed eponymous LP, but recent efforts have lacked the exuberance and imaginati... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
ReviewsButcher Boy – Helping Hands
Without straying far from their indie-pop template, Helping Hands is nevertheless Butcher Boy's most diverse offering to date. Through a careful layering of ... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
Live Music
Hot Ticket of the Month: Warpaint @ Queen’s Hall, 23 Aug
If rock shows embody the idea of paying to see other people be free (to paraphrase Kim Gordon), then there are few things more dispiriting than watching a ba... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011 -
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Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lenses Alien
Unlike virtually all adventurous New York acts around these days, Cymbals Eat Guitars are based not in Brooklyn, but on the considerably less hip Staten Isla... Read more »| 01 Aug 2011
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Live Music
Live Music Highlights – August 2011
Get your motherfucking chakras aligned Edinburgh, because polysynth polymath Dan Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) is getting ready to remix your conscious... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
Live Music
The Metal Column – August 2011
In case you’ve been off dwelling with Norwegian cave metaller Mortiis, last month saw the timely demise of News of the World and it’ll be sadly m... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
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The Icarus Line – Wildlife
A solo album in all but name (its working title was Joe Cardamone Versus The Icarus Line), Wildlife is a sporadically impressive outing that nevertheless fal... Read more »| 29 Jul 2011 -
ReviewsRetox – Ugly Animals
Somewhat predictably for a band containing two members of The Locust, Ipecac's latest progeny specialise in envelope-pushing musical lunacy of the 100mph ext... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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Grumbling Fur – Furrier
Even without knowing the illustrious pedigree behind Grumbling Fur, from Furfather’s gently shimmering ambience it’s already possible to see Guap... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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Metaltech – Burn Your Planet
How do you take a band like Metaltech, a nu-industrial trio with a love of Kiss-esque greasepaint and early 90s rock and techno? On one hand you have the alb... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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Paul Vickers and the Vicarage – Oom-pah!
There are some releases that even the most determined of pedants couldn’t pigeonhole and with Oom-pah’s trauma-inducing collision of avant-garde ... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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The Count & Sinden – Mega Mega Remix
Mega Mega Remix strikes as a particularly masochistic record for The Count & Sinden (or their label?) to commission: though a patchy affair, Mega Mega Re... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011 -
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Wooden Shjips – West
Gone is the lo-fi fugue of Wooden Shjips’ DIY recordings: West marks the San Franciscan psych-rock disciples’ debut in a “proper studio&rdq... Read more »| 28 Jul 2011